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ACLU Halts Legal Action After Promise from California Adoption Agency that It Won't Discriminate Based on Sexual Orientation

LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union announced today that it would no longer pursue legal action against an Orange County-based adoption agency after the agency signed a binding agreement with the state that it would no longer discriminate against applicants based on sexual orientatio

October 6, 2005

ACLU/SC Denounces Governor

LOS ANGELES - Today Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 849, an important bill that would end the discriminatory exclusion of gay and lesbian couples from marriage in California.

September 29, 2005

ACLU/SC, Santa Barbara Brothers File Suit After Local Police Violated Their Free Speech

LOS ANGELES - The ACLU of Southern California along with a Santa Barbara man filed suit today against the City of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Police Department for violating his free speech.

September 28, 2005

Civil Rights Groups File To Join Suit in Support of the Capistrano Unified School District

ORANGE, Calif.

September 27, 2005

Pasadena to Allow Residents to Hang Political Signs

LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena couple who was forced to remove a sign questioning the war in Iraq from the exterior of their home will be allowed to hang it from their home once again according to the city attorney.

September 27, 2005

Government Must Not Delay Access to Immigration Judges

LOS ANGELES - Yesterday, hundreds of detained immigrants at the Mira Loma Detention Center held a peaceful demonstration to protest unreasonably long delays in their cases. Many detainees wait weeks to see a judge and months to resolve their immigration cases.

September 22, 2005