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LOS ANGELES — A federal court today made a landmark ruling that halts the City of Los Angeles’s enforcement of gang injunctions, an arbitrary police practice that has subjected thousands of Los Angeles residents — mostly men of color — to probation-like conditions for years without hearings and s
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Human Rights First, and Covington & Burling LLP filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration's arbitrary detention of asylum seekers fleeing persecution, torture, or death in their co
LOS ANGELES — Ahead of planned student walkouts this month, the ACLU of California has advised school officials across the state to adhere to constitutional and state laws protecting students who are expressing themselves politically.