ACLU-PA Sues Souderton School District Over Banned Parents
ACLU-PA filed a lawsuit against the Souderton Area School District after the district banned from school property two parents and a former student who criticized a school board member for posting lewd content about VP Kamala Harris online.
On July 8, 2015, the ACLU of Pennsylvania sent a letter to a Butler County developer and its co-plaintiffs demanding that they drop their lawsuit against five Middlesex Township residents and two nonprofit...
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Jun 17, 2015
Commonwealth v. Williams
Death Penalty
Status: Closed
On June 17, 2015, the Philadelphia Bar Association, the NAACP, the Jewish Social Policy Action Network, and Pennsylvanians Against the Death Penalty joined in a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the...
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Apr 28, 2015
Northeastern PA Freethought Society v. County of Lackawanna Transit System
First Amendment Rights
Status: Open
The ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a federal lawsuit on April 28, 2015, against the County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS) over its refusal to allow a local atheist group, the Northeastern Pennsylvania (...
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Apr 24, 2015
Plum Borough High School
First Amendment Rights
Students of Plum Borough High School were threatened with criminal prosecution if they commented about an ongoing investigation into teacher-student sexual conduct at the high school.
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Apr 1, 2015
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp v. Scroggins
First Amendment Rights
Status: Closed
A 2013 court injunction barred anti-fracking activist Vera Scroggins of Brackney, Pa., not only from properties owned by Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation, but all properties in Susquehanna County where Cabot...
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Mar 16, 2015
Coatesville Area Senior High School
LGBTQIA+ Equality
On March 16, 2015, the ACLU of Pennsylvania sent a letter to the Coatesville Area School Board providing legal background relevant to student clubs and stressed that the District must treat the prospective...