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Goldberg vs. Kelly
Ruled by the supreme court
decided in 1970
The Court held that a person has a property interest in certain government entitlements, which require notice and a hearing before a governmental entity (either state or federal) takes them away. Government-provided entitlements from the modern welfare state increased substantially in the United States during the 20th century. The Goldberg court decided that such entitlements (e.g., welfare payments, government pensions, professional licenses), are a fo -
Taking a stand for free speech in Skokie
The ACLU took a controversial stand for free speech by defending a neo-Nazi group that wanted to march through the Chicago suburb of Skokie , where many Holocaust survivors lived. The notoriety of the case caused some ACLU members to resign, but to many others the case has come to represent the ACLU's unwavering commitment to principle. In fact, many of the laws the ACLU cited to defend the group's right to free speech and assembly were the same laws it had invoked during the Civil Rights. -
Wisconsin v. Mitchell
Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 476 (1993), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court. It was a landmark precedent pertaining to First Amendment free speech arguments for hate crime legislation. In effect, the Court ruled that a state may consider whether a crime was committed or initially considered due to an intended victim's status in a protected class. -
American Civil Liberties Union v. Miller
The plaintiffs reminded the court that no one owns the internet, since it is a decentralized medium of communication between several parties and persons around the world. To impose this regulation would therefore be overstepping the scope of Georgia law, since the state did not have authority over the entity of the internet.[1][2]
Decided in district course decided in 1997 -
MGM v. Grokster
Decided by the supreme court\
June 27th 2005
The Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari on December 10, 2004. (A writ of certiorari is an order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.) -
HILL V. SNYDER
VICTORY: Federal Judge strikes down Michigan parole statute condemning youthful offenders to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In February of 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan filed a lawsuit on behalf of nine Michigan citizens who were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for crimes committed when they were minors. This lawsuit challenged a Michigan law requiring that children as young as 14 who are charged with certain -
EXODUS REFUGEE IMMIGRATION, INC. V. MIKE PENCE, ET AL
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Indiana, on behalf of Exodus Refugee Immigration, filed suit today against Governor Mike Pence and the secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration to stop attempts to suspend resettlement of Syrian refugees, claiming the governor’s actions violate the United States Constitution and federal law. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of Exodus Refugee Immigration, Inc., seeks an injunction to stop the governor from taking any acti -
ADOPTIVE COUPLE V. BABY GIRL
Whether the Indian Child Welfare Act was properly applied under the facts of this case. The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was adopted by Congress in response to a long and disturbing history of removing Indian children from Indian families and tribes. ICWA sets forth a series of procedures
that must be followed and substantive standards that must be met before an Indian child can be placed in foster care or adopted. Because those rules were not followed in this case, the South Carolina Suprem
