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State asks judge to uphold Indiana immigration law
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State attorneys say the ACLU is exaggerating the powers Indiana's new immigration law gives to local police in an effort to persuade a federal judge to throw out parts of the law. In a brief filed this week in U.S. District...Tags: Trials, Immigration, Politics, Migration, Career and Workplace
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Michigan House passes bills to change medical pot law
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan House on Thursday passed a package of bills aimed at clarifying the state's voter-approved law allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The House passed four bills — including the first...
Tags: Health Treatments, Politics, Lifestyle and Leisure, Recreational Substance Use, Medical Marijuana Therapy
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Court: Indiana can't deny welfare without reason
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court said Thursday that the state Family and Social Services Administration can't deny Medicaid, food stamps or welfare to people without first doing a better job of telling them why. The unanimous ruling...Tags: Trials, Interior Policy, Medicaid, Politics, Health Insurance
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Student's profane tweet stirs free-speech debate
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Austin Carroll was fighting insomnia when the Indiana teenager turned to Twitter for relief and casually dropped the F-word multiple times, apparently to demonstrate to his followers that the expletive would fit almost anywhere...Tags: Punishment, F-bomb Dropping, Students, Twitter, Inc., Politics
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ACLU: Pleased Michigan has halted cavity searches
DETROIT (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union says it's confirmed the Michigan Department of Corrections has halted routine body cavity searches for female prisoners. The ACLU and other groups wrote Corrections Director Daniel Heyns...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Politics, Sexual and Reproductive Organs
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Public letter-signing set for new request into South Bend Police phone recordings
Three local community activists will be asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the ACLU to open inquiries into the federal investigation of taped phone calls at the South Bend Police Department. Two copies of the letters to Holder and the ACLU...
Tags: Racism, Eric Holder
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Suit says ICE agents assaulted Latina mother, son
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Latina mother and her adult son have suit in Grand Rapids federal court, saying that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accosted, handcuffed and assaulted them. The civil suit filed by the American Civil...
Tags: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration
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Timeline of South Bend police wiretap investigation so far
WSBT-TV ReporterWSBT continues to uncover new information into the federal wiretapping investigation that led to South Bend Police Chief Darryl Boykins' demotion and the firing of the department's communications director. WSBT learned Section IV of South Bend Police...Tags: Science and Technology, Electronics, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, FBI
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FACT FINDER: Will ACLU get involved in South Bend police wiretapping investigation?
Calls for the American Civil Liberties Union to get involved in the South Bend police wiretapping investigation may go unanswered. We wanted to know whether the ACLU would get involved and did a little Fact Finding to find out. There are certainly a lot...
Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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ACLU: 3 Indiana girls expelled over Facebook jokes
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Three eighth-graders from northwest Indiana who say they were expelled after joking on Facebook about which of their classmates they would like to kill asked a federal judge Wednesday to order the district to allow them to return...
Tags: Judges, Trials, Facebook, U.S. Supreme Court, Human Rights
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Michigan House approves bills for abortion screening
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Republican-led Michigan House has approved bills that would require a doctor or an assistant to do some screening before an abortion to make sure a pregnant woman isn't being forced or coerced to end the pregnancy against...Tags: Abortion, Abusive Behavior, Social Issues, Pregnancy and Childbirth
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ACLU sues Indy over newspaper for homeless
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal lawsuit claims Indianapolis officials are violating the First Amendment by preventing homeless vendors from selling a newspaper downtown in the week leading up to the Super Bowl. The Indianapolis Star reports (http://...Tags: Trials, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Justice and Rights, Newspaper and Magazine
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