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NEW ORLEANS - The ACLU, on behalf of 19 Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans, won a major reduction in unreasonable and excessive escort fees charged by the New Orleans Police Department to second line parades. Federal Judge Kurt Engelhardt accepted a negotiated agreement with the City o
MONROE, LA - Faced with an imminent ACLU lawsuit, the Ouachita Parish School Board has agreed to scuttle any plans for a repeat of illegal graduation prayers at the Ouachita Parish High School. An individual at last year's ceremony complained and asked for help from the ACLU to get the matter re
The ACLU of Louisiana sent a letter today to St.
The Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans won round one today in its ongoing battle against the City of New Orleans for charging unreasonable and excessive fees to clubs that conduct second line parades. The Court accepted an agreement negotiated with the City of New Orleans to allow The
NEW ORLEANS - An ACLU of Louisiana lawsuit has prompted an out of court settlement that allows Mormon inmate Norman Sanders to get access to religious materials from respected vendors in order to practice his beliefs. Since 2003, Warden Burl Cain of Louisiana State Penitentiary had repeatedly re
Debtors' prison is illegal, immoral and financially irresponsible say the ACLU and the Tulane Criminal Law Clinic ("Clinic") in a federal lawsuit filed on March 6. Representing a poor person charged with the municipal offense of "begging" and jailed because he could not immediately pay a fine, t