The American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday that it has settled a lawsuit with a Kansas City suburb after the town agreed to stop ticketing drivers who flash their headlights at oncoming traffic to warn that a speed trap lies ahead.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation can withhold data from a civil liberties group on its use of ethnic and racial information.

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The Missouri Department of Corrections said Wednesday that it is returning the European-made portion of its supply of its execution drug, propofol.

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The American Civil Liberties Union said Friday that it is suing the Missouri Department of Corrections for failing to respond to a request for records about the state’s execution drug.

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A Nebraska policy barring gay and lesbian couples and individuals from being foster parents was challenged in an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit.

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The American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal argued to an Illinois judge that laws prohibiting same-sex marriage should be declared unconstitutional.

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Fingers of blame point in different directions after talks ground to a halt on oversight of St. Louis jails.

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The detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been kept there for years. Only now are they getting hearings in federal district court to challenge the grounds for their detention. To date, a majority of the petitioners have prevailed. We have a ...

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We now know that right after 9/11, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to conduct blanket surveillance on electronic communications without a warrant. The Federal Intelligence Security Act of 1978 created a procedure whereby he could have obtained a ...

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A longtime board member of the ACLU of Eastern Missouri has not been reappointed because of his repeated use of the N-word, according to a report in Missouri Lawyers Weekly, a sister publication. Dr. William Landau, an 85-year-old neurologist at ...

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Both sides are claiming victory in a lawsuit over distributing Bibles in a public school. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a permanent injunction prohibiting the distribution of Bibles to students at an elementary school in southeastern Missouri. For about 30 years, school officials at South Iron Elementary School have allowed representatives of Gideons International to distribute Bibles to fifth-graders.

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