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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging a federal appeals court to uphold an earlier decision requiring Louisiana to issue a birth certificate with the names of both parents to a boy who was adopted by a gay couple in New York.
Today the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana filed suit against the City of New Orleans, District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, and Chief of Police Warren Riley, for refusing to return a firearm to its lawful owner.
Today the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana and the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections filed a settlement securing the right of prisoner Donald Lee Leger to practice his Catholic faith by participating in Catholic Mass and Confession.
Widespread racial profiling by law enforcement agents remains a pervasive problem in Louisiana and throughout the United States, according to a report out today by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Rights Working Group (RWG).
Today Johnny Duncan and the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana entered a settlement with the City of Amite, which detained and ticketed Mr. Duncan because there was a sign on his car reading "You Might be a Nigger!." Mr.
Concerned that religion might find its way into Louisiana's science classrooms, the ACLU of Louisiana, with support from the ACLU's Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, has filed comments with the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education regarding proposed regulations for implement