News & Commentary

The ACLU of Southern California condemned the U.S. Senate for caving in to Bush Administration pressure to authorize wiretapping Americans' phone calls without warrants and to give telecommunications companies immunity from lawsuits over their role in spying.

LOS ANGELES - The ACLU/SC and the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP have filed a claim for damages on behalf of African American community college students stopped and searched by police on the basis of their race.

ONTARIO - The ACLU of Southern California will argue tomorrow in federal appeals court that a video camera hidden in an Ontario Police Department locker room violated police officers' right to privacy in the workplace. More than 100 officers were captured on videotape, and the ACLU/SC sued the department in 2004 on their behalf. In April 2006, U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips held that the videotaping violated the U.S. Constitution and California privacy laws.

LOS ANGELES - The board of directors of the ACLU of Southern California has passed a resolution calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for their abuses of basic civil liberties.

A paraplegic man has sued the hospital that dumped him in a Skid Row gutter without his wheelchair.

A paraplegic man has sued the hospital that dumped him in a Skid Row gutter without his wheelchair.

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Public Counsel, the ACLU of Southern California, and the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. announced the filing today of a lawsuit against Hollywood Presbyterian (a Southern California hospital) on behalf of a paraplegic, homeless man who was 'dumped' in a skid row gutter.

PASADENA - In a federal appellate court in California today, the American Civil Liberties Union argued that the government is violating the law and the court's prior rulings by incarcerating immigrants for years while they fight their immigration cases.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have satisfied the requirements for U.S. citizenship are left in limbo by the U.S. government for months and even years. They pay taxes and legally work, but are unable to vote, afraid to travel, and face severe restrictions on their employment and personal lives.