SAN FRANCISCO — The ACLU will argue before the Court of Appeal in San Francisco Tuesday on behalf of Evan Minton, a man who was denied health care because he is transgender. Minton was scheduled to receive a hysterectomy at Mercy San Juan Medical Center, a Sacramento-area Catholic hospital in the

Agreement in ACLU Lawsuit Gains Rights for Incarcerated People in San Bernardino County RIVERSIDE — In 2014 the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and the law firm of Kaye, McLane, Bednarski & Litt LLP filed a lawsuit against San Bernardino County over its discriminatory treatment of incarcer

For years, a group of people incarcerated in a San Bernardino County jail were locked in their cells for as much as 23 hours a day. They were not permitted to participate in the jail’s job training, educational, drug rehabilitation, religious or community re-entry programs. Today, a settlement has

Writer Dustin Lance Black, “airport lawyers” among those to get awards at annual luncheon LOS ANGELES – The ACLU Foundation of Southern California will host its 23rd annual awards luncheon Friday, June 23, honoring law firms and individuals who have worked with the ACLU SoCal in the past year on

SAN FRANCISCO — The ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU of Southern California, the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project, and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP today filed a lawsuit against Dignity Health for denying care to a transgender patient.

LOS ANGELES — Today, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) announced the establishment of the Audrey Irmas Director of the LGBTQ, Gender and Reproductive Justice Project. This position will be funded by a five-year, $1 million grant from the Audrey Irmas Foundation for Social