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NEW ORLEANS - An ACLU of Louisiana lawsuit has prompted an out of court settlement that allows Mormon inmate Norman Sanders to get access to religious materials from respected vendors in order to practice his beliefs. Since 2003, Warden Burl Cain of Louisiana State Penitentiary had repeatedly re
Debtors' prison is illegal, immoral and financially irresponsible say the ACLU and the Tulane Criminal Law Clinic ("Clinic") in a federal lawsuit filed on March 6. Representing a poor person charged with the municipal offense of "begging" and jailed because he could not immediately pay a fine, t
Joe Cook, outspoken defender of civil liberties for friend and foe alike from one end of the state to the other, announced that he would retire later this year in June as Executive Director of the ACLU of Louisiana.
NATCHITOCHES, LA - The ACLU's free speech lawsuit on behalf of Christian protestor Edwin Crayton forced the City of Natchitoches to repeal the unconstitutional ordinances in question, which prompted a final consent judgment affirming that Mr.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of a man who was wrongfully arrested days after Katrina and unlawfully detained for seven months. On September 11, 2005, James Terry, an Army veteran with no criminal record whatsoever, was at his residence on Magazine St
To inform the public about the government's secret surveillance programs aimed at ordinary Americans, the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana and the Loyola Law School Public Interest Law Group sponsor a free public lecture entitled: Stop the Abuse of Power: The Truth About US Government Spying &