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Last week, students of South Lafourche High School in Galliano, LA, held the first meeting of their Gay-Straight Alliance, a student club with a mission to support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning students and their friends.
Today the ACLU filed a "friend of the court" brief in support of Nicholas Brilleaux, editor of Hammond Action News, who has been sued for defamation for his satirical article about a giraffe mauling a worker at Folsom's Global Wildlife Center.
The ACLU of Louisiana today urges Mayor Ray Nagin and Chief of Police Warren Riley to honor Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux's request for the release of records of police misconduct and investigations.
In the first court hearing ever about sex segregation in coed public schools, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana argued that the school board in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana illegally discriminated against both boys and girls at Rene A.
A federal appeals court issued a decision today requiring the state of Louisiana to issue a birth certificate to the adopted child of a gay couple, naming both of the adoptive parents.
Today the Principal of Maurepas High School, which had declared that students could wear jerseys in support of the New Orleans Saints, punished a student for wearing a jersey in support of the Indianapolis Colts.