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On Friday, September 24, 2010, administrators at Hoover High School and officers from the Glendale Police Department, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Probation Department interrogated,...
Khatib v. County of Orange is a lawsuit against the County for forcing a practicing Muslim woman to remove her religious headscarf when she was taken into custody at an OC holding...
Photography is not a crime. It’s protected First Amendment expression. But that hasn’t stopped deputies of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department from detaining and searching photographers, solely based on...
Reed v State of California is a class action lawsuit against the State of California and Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) seeking to enjoin budget-based layoffs at three...