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American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Liberties Union
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Loving v. Virginia overturns bans on interracial marriage
📅 12 Juni 1967The Supreme Court ruled unanimously for Mildred and Richard Loving, invalidating state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Their challenge confronted the state’s authority to police intimate life...
Muneer Awad obtains an injunction against Oklahoma’s anti-Sharia amendment
📅 29 November 2010A federal district court granted a preliminary injunction blocking Oklahoma’s proposed constitutional amendment excluding Sharia and international law from state courts. Muneer Awad argued that...
Raza v. City of New York challenges surveillance of mosques and Muslim community life
📅 18 Juni 2013Muslim religious and community leaders, two mosques and a charitable organization filed Raza v. City of New York. Represented by the ACLU, NYCLU and CUNY’s CLEAR project, they challenged allegedly...
A federal court strikes down Oklahoma’s anti-Sharia constitutional amendment
📅 15 Augustus 2013A federal court invalidated Oklahoma’s amendment excluding Sharia and international law from state-court consideration. The ACLU and CAIR had supported Muslim plaintiffs’ challenge to a measure that...
Lawyers win an emergency stay against removals under the entry ban
đź“… 28 Januari 2017A federal judge granted emergency protection against removal for people stranded under the new entry restrictions after a challenge in Darweesh v. Trump. Legal organizations acted on behalf of...