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Today US District Judge Donald Walter of the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana ruled that the newspaper "The Final Call" cannot be censored or denied to a prisoner who requested it in accordance with his religious beliefs.
Today the ACLU of Louisiana sent a letter to the Superintendents of all Louisiana public school boards reminding them of the legal obligation to allow students to bring dates of the same sex to school dances.
Last week, students of South Lafourche High School in Galliano, LA, held the first meeting of their Gay-Straight Alliance, a student club with a mission to support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning students and their friends.
Today the ACLU filed a "friend of the court" brief in support of Nicholas Brilleaux, editor of Hammond Action News, who has been sued for defamation for his satirical article about a giraffe mauling a worker at Folsom's Global Wildlife Center.
The ACLU of Louisiana today urges Mayor Ray Nagin and Chief of Police Warren Riley to honor Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux's request for the release of records of police misconduct and investigations.
In the first court hearing ever about sex segregation in coed public schools, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana argued that the school board in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana illegally discriminated against both boys and girls at Rene A.