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U.S. attorney general announces grant to study police racial profiling 2 Eugene Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1681

Is It Torture Now? ISIS Apparently A Fan Of CIA’s Waterboarding Techniques 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2014 Aug 2014 7 1718

littlemisssmartypants suggested that I should cross post this thread here. 5 tblue37 Aug 2014 Aug 2014 10 2448

(REDACTED) memo released on killing (REDACTED) American overseas 0 jakeXT Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 1576

Russell Rios shooting - Here is an interesting case 0 exboyfil Aug 2014 Aug 2014 3 2063

Membership in the ACLU. Only $5.00 2 NYC_SKP Aug 2014 Aug 2014 7 1678

Idiot Talk Show Host Michael Berry running a 1 exboyfil Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 2604

Amnesty Intl: "This is not the Bush administration, this is torture happening under Obama" 1 bigtree Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 2070

Police behaviour in woman’s background check ‘malicious,’ lawsuit alleges 0 shockedcanadian Aug 2014 Aug 2014 3 1404

Fresh doubts over a Texas execution 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 1540

New York police unions lose bid to challenge stop-and-frisk settlement 1 Eugene Jul 2014 Aug 2014 2 1546

Microsoft must give prosecutors customer email stored on server in Ireland, federal judge rules 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1408

Andrew Leduc hit-and-run death: Civilian RCMP contractor cleared of wrongdoing 0 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1393

DOJ Says They Can No Longer Afford To Respect The Attorney-Client Privilege 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2014 Jul 2014 6 2947

Source Leaks Secret Guidelines for US Government "Watchlist" 1 friendly_iconoclast Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 2015

Ohio judge favors camera speeding ticket refunds 3 Eugene Jan 2014 Jul 2014 3 1999

Provincial jails clogged with legally innocent Canadians 0 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1503

Innocence Project co-founder calls for audit of all Nifong cases 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2014 Jul 2014 8 1863

Toronto woman stunned by police revelation in background check 2 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 1914

'You are being tracked': How cities use licence-plate scanners to create vast databases of vehicles 3 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 2125

Police chiefs call for presumed innocence in background checks 1 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1466

Inmate’s Gassing Death Latest In Complaints Against Florida Prisons 2 jakeXT Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1903

Public servant expects $1 million after human rights tribunal finds 'subtle scent of discrimination' 0 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1558

Durham police officers accused of faking 911 calls to enter homes 1 jakeXT Jul 2014 Jul 2014 9 2024

Do not take picturesof the Dorchester gas-storage tank... 6 Little Star Jul 2014 Jul 2014 6 2597

What intelligence agency in the West has absolutely NO oversight body or obligation to government? 3 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 2148

Litigation for Libel Slander VS Public Defending 0 theexwife Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1460

Ask not what you can do for your religion, but what can the government do for your religion. 0 cheyanne Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1703

Break a window, and pay for life 0 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 1971

NSA reformers dismayed after privacy board vindicates surveillance dragnet 1 Eugene Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1624

Civil Liberties Continued...

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Fifty Years Ago Today: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1715

Question about the Hobby Lobby decision. 7 JDPriestly Jul 2014 Jul 2014 8 3292

U.S. privacy board says NSA Internet spying program is effective but worrying 0 Eugene Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 1574

Massachusetts high court says accused criminal must decrypt computers for police 5 Eugene Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 2213

Q about discrimination and "sincerely held religious belief" 4 DetlefK Mar 2014 Jun 2014 0 2022

Prisons of “type C”: A new test field in the Greek experiment 0 no more banksters Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 2174

‘No judgment, no discretion’: Police records that ruin innocent lives 2 shockedcanadian Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1808

There is a man in our community who is being harrassed by the police, 6 pennylane100 Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 3557

Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption - 0 me b zola Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1747

I wonder if people can read at times 4 Leme Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 3478

Human Rights Code gives convicted Ontarians more workplace protection than the innocent 0 shockedcanadian Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1279

U.S. Marshals Seize Cops’ Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU 0 friendly_iconoclast Jun 2014 Jun 2014 5 1482

Ontario privacy watchdog takes legal action against Toronto police: Star Exclusive 0 shockedcanadian Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1477

Darryl Howard and the rampaging prosecutor: Durham learns little from Duke lacrosse debacle 4 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2014 May 2014 2 3163

No charges, no trial, but presumed guilty 1 shockedcanadian May 2014 May 2014 2 2193

State Surveillance: The Munk Debate (Glenn Greenwald & Ohanian v. Dershowitz & General Hayden) 0 Electric Monk May 2014 May 2014 0 1557

Supreme Court Justice Argues That States Should Be Permitted To Set Up Official Religions 5 mahatmakanejeeves May 2014 May 2014 1 2711

Oakland PD's surveillance center's primary purpose is fighting protesters, not crime 2 friendly_iconoclast Dec 2013 May 2014 1 2103

ACLU: Know Your Rights Constitutional Free Zone Map 4 NYC_SKP Apr 2014 Apr 2014 15 2467

U.S. will not appeal judge's ruling on no-fly list mistake 0 Eugene Mar 2014 Mar 2014 3 8628

New York City, rights group seal deal to end stop-and-frisk 2 Eugene Jan 2014 Mar 2014 0 1903

Illinois Supreme Court strikes down eavesdropping law as too broad 0 Eugene Mar 2014 Mar 2014 4 1554

So, now that we're starting to see studies that link sleep deprivation to brain damage 0 Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2014 Mar 2014 13 2012

Federal Judge Rejects Justice Department's Request To Hold NSA Phone Records 0 Eugene Mar 2014 Mar 2014 2 1451

PA's Worst: Republican Pushes Pro-Discrimination Proposal in PA House [VIDEO] 2 Counterpoint PA Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 2411

Edward Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 0 GoLeft TV Jan 2014 Jan 2014 5 1460

Man spends four decades in mental hospital for stealing $20 necklace 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2014 Jan 2014 13 2007

Judge names monitor to oversee Arizona sheriff in profiling case 1 Eugene Jan 2014 Jan 2014 7 1798

U.S. Supreme Court to weigh cell phone searches by police 0 Eugene Jan 2014 Jan 2014 0 1803

ACLU seeks probe of alleged abuses at Arizona border checkpoints 0 Eugene Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1547

Civil Liberties Continued...

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The effort to normalize drone surveillance 8 Android3.14 Dec 2013 Jan 2014 0 3078

ACLU sues for details of U.S. surveillance under executive order 1 Eugene Dec 2013 Jan 2014 6 1807

Obama concedes NSA bulk collection of phone data may be unnecessary 4 Eugene Dec 2013 Dec 2013 5 2194

Chinese labor camp inmate tells of true horror of Halloween 'SOS' 6 shockedcanadian Nov 2013 Dec 2013 4 2465

Teen Kills 4; Judge LITERALLY Lets Him Off Because He is Rich! 8 appleannie1 Dec 2013 Dec 2013 4 3738

From The Department Of Can You Believe This 5 DallasNE Sep 2013 Nov 2013 3 2326

NSA bulk data collection violates constitutional rights, ACLU argues 1 Eugene Nov 2013 Nov 2013 2 1710

These are all over NOLA, on high-end suvs since Katrina. 2 RosettaStoned77 Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 2708

Spinning Against Innocence Projects 1 LegalScholar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 2 1652

N.Y. City to seek immediate ruling preserving stop-and-frisk 0 Eugene Nov 2013 Nov 2013 0 1515

Arizona Harassment Statute under attack in Supreme Court -1st Amendment - Sheriff Joe not happy 0 scottx2 Nov 2013 Nov 2013 3 1808

Hidden Agenda Fuels Challenge to Pivotal Death Penalty Case 0 LegalScholar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 1393

Gun owning liberal and watching Baggars shoot at a range 38 IkeRepublican Oct 2013 Nov 2013 17 15973

The Chicago Tribune Murdered the Truth 0 LegalScholar Nov 2013 Nov 2013 0 1595

Macy's joins Barneys in brewing NYC 'shop-and-frisk' scandal 1 Eugene Oct 2013 Oct 2013 10 1868

Lavabit 'fatally undermined' by US request for encryption keys, ACLU says 0 Eugene Oct 2013 Oct 2013 3 1497

Judicial Horror Story - Just in Time for Halloween 0 LegalScholar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 0 1526

Another Chapter on Wacky Chicago Judge 4 LegalScholar Oct 2013 Oct 2013 0 2096

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