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LAKE FOREST - Acting on behalf of day laborer groups, the ACLU of Southern California has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the City of Lake Forest in federal court. The suit challenges a city ordinance that prohibits, and city enforcement actions that discourage, day laborers from soliciting employment while standing on sidewalks in Lake Forest. The suit alleges that the ordinance and the city's enforcement actions violate the free speech rights of day laborers guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

February 17, 1987: L.A. police swept Skid Row, launching twice-daily raids and seizing and dumping residents' property. After the ACLU/SC, Legal Aid Foundation and private attorneys sued, the city was forced to scale back police raids and give notice to homeless.

February 17, 1987: L.A. police swept Skid Row, launching twice-daily raids and seizing and dumping residents' property. After the ACLU/SC, Legal Aid Foundation and private attorneys sued, the city was forced to scale back police raids and give notice to homeless.

TUSTIN - The ACLU of Southern California has documented startling racial and ethnic disparities in the enrollment of students in Tustin Unified School District's Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program. A letter sent today to Superintendent Richard Bray on behalf of concerned parents asked the district to reassess and correct how it identifies gifted students because the disparities raise serious legal concerns.

style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" width="196" border="0" />Pop-music superstars the Dixie Chicks just won five Grammy Awards. But before that they took home the ACLU/SC's prize for standing up for free speech.

Pop-music superstars the Dixie Chicks just won five Grammy Awards. But before that they took home the ACLU/SC's prize for standing up for free speech.

SACRAMENTO - Equality California (EQCA) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, Southern California and San Diego announced today the joint sponsorship of a bill that would allow domestic partners and married spouses equal opportunity, regardless of gender, to change their surnames upon marriage or domestic partnership registration.

A Christian minister who fled persecution in Indonesia only to wind up in a federal holding cell for more than two years was ordered released along with two others after the ACLU/SC sued on their behalf.

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