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Please attribute the following to Hector Villagra, executive director of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, in regards to the death of Ninth Circuit Court Judge Stephen Reinhardt. Villagra clerked for Judge Reinhardt in the 9th Circuit from 1995 to 1996:
TIJUANA — Deported U.S. Army veteran Hector Barajas, who has been living in Mexico the last 8 years, today received word from the Dept of Homeland Security that he is being granted U.S. citizenship. Barajas, a decorated vet who received an honorable discharge after serving nearly six years in the mi
LOS ANGELES — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, the law firm of Outten & Golden LLP, and Los Angeles attorney Brenda Feigen filed pregnancy discrimination charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today on behalf of female longshore worker
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Two Bay Area fathers who have been detained for over six months at the Contra Costa West County Detention Facility in Richmond, California sued the federal government today in a class action lawsuit challenging their unlawful and prolonged detention.
ACLU: Volunteers to Give Greyhound Bus Passengers 'Know Your Rights' Guides Greyhound buses are increasingly targeted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents who board buses without warrants to interrogate passengers about their travel plans and immigration status. The ACLU affiliates in Calif
SANTA ANA — Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, criticized by the ACLU earlier this year for unlawfully deleting negative comments on his social media platforms, promised reforms. And he did make some welcome changes as set out in new Social Media Terms of Use. But Rackauckas's social