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A federal appeals court issued a decision today requiring the state of Louisiana to issue a birth certificate to the adopted child of a gay couple, naming both of the adoptive parents.
Today the Principal of Maurepas High School, which had declared that students could wear jerseys in support of the New Orleans Saints, punished a student for wearing a jersey in support of the Indianapolis Colts.
For the first time, the U.S. is participating in a process that allows the United Nations to review the human rights records of all member states. The first step of that process began today with consultations by U.S.
The ACLU Foundation of Louisiana announces the successful resolution of a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of Steven Elloie, owner of the New Orleans Central City bar Sportsman's Corner, who on June 23, 2006 was brutally beaten, Tased twice with up to 50,000 volts of electricity while handcuffed a
On March 20, 2011, the ACLU of Louisiana will give its 34th annual Ben Smith award to Larry Bagneris, Executive Director of the City of New Orleans' Human Relations Commission.
Prompted by a letter from lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola have transferred Hymel Varnado to a shared cell after forcing him to endure 12 years of solitary confinement for no legitimate reason.