The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona asked a federal judge Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit the state filed against the federal government over medical marijuana. The civil-rights organization contends there is no controversy to bring a suit.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Arizona and the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new state law that prohibits entities from qualifying as charitable organizations if they provide, pay for, promote or refer patients for abortions. The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Phoenix today, argues that HB2384 violates the free speech rights of some of the coalition's members because it prohibits them from qualifying for the state's Working Poor Tax Credit program, which offers residents a tax credit for donations to an organization that serves low- income people.
Meet Alessandra Soler Meetze (pronounced mets). Ms. Meetze is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, which by its own account has 8,500 members. She succeeds Eleanor Eisenberg who headed the organization for eight years. The Florida native is new to the Valley, but she's no stranger to the cause for individual rights, no matter how unpopular or ugly the product of liberty might be. Born to an Argentinean father and a Brazilian mother, the volatile South American political scene made its impression on the 31-year-old, who previously served as executive director for the ACLU of Louisiana. Inspired by "horror stories" of her father's recollections of friends that he said simply vanished, and encouraged by a stint as a government, crime and education report...
Civil Rights Leaders Dolores Huerta And Richard Chavez Joined By Famed Musician And Arizona Native Linda Ronstadt To Condemn New Law PHOENIX, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, MALDEF, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Arizona and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) held a news conference on the House of Representatives Lawn of the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix, Arizona to announce their future legal challenge to Governor Jan Brewer's recently signed SB1070. In addition, the organizations sought to address misinformation and fears that have been spreading throughout the Latino community across Arizona. MALDEF, ACLU, ACLU of Arizona and NILC leaders were joined by civil rights leaders Dolores Huerta, Richard Chavez and multi-Grammy winning artist and ...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and a host of school and teacher organizations asked a Maricopa County Superior Court judge on June 4 to temporarily allow two school voucher programs to remain in place so the Legislature has ample time to create alternative programs. Attorney Don Peters asked Judge Bethany Hicks to issue an injunction against the vouchers for foster children and special needs students with a delayed effect of 100-120 days to allow the Legislature to create laws allowing private schools to be contracted by public schools to educate certain students.
...BENNETT, Secretary of State of. Arizona; and F. ANN RODRIGUEZ, FRZ. Pim...Beddard. . Daniel Pochoda, American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona...
Eleanor Eisenberg, who retired Aug. 19 as executive director of the Arizona chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union after eight years in the post, has been in the forefront of progressive causes most of her adult life. After several decades of volunteer involvement and a 25-year public interest law career in California, Ms. Eisenberg was asked about the Arizona issues she has championed or opposed over the years. Arizona Capitol Times interviewed her in her Phoenix office on Aug. 16. Why are you leaving the ACLU?
PHOENIX, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a hearing today in a federal court in Phoenix, the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of civil rights groups argued that Arizona's discriminatory new law, known as SB 1070, should be blocked pending a final court ruling on its constitutionality. The law, scheduled to go into effect on July 29, requires police to demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are "unlawfully present" in the U.S. According to the coalition, the law would subject massive numbers of people - both citizens and non-citizens - to racial profiling, improper investigations and detention. The U.S. Department of Justice, in a separate lawsuit, will also ask the court to block SB 1070 in a hearing later today. The court, in the civil rights coalitio...
Louis Rhodes, former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, died Oct. 14 at age 59, three years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Rhodes served as executive director of the organization in Arizona from 1979 to 1996.
PHOENIX -- The furor over Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants grew Monday as opponents used refried beans to smear swastikas on the state Capitol, civil rights leaders demanded a boycott of the state, Mexico's president called it discriminatory and the Obama administration weighed a possible legal challenge. Activists are planning a challenge of their own, hoping to block the law from taking effect by arguing that it encroaches on the federal government's authority to regulate immigration and violates people's constitutional rights by giving police too much power.
... Soler Meetze, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, which is explori...
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