Following the birth of their first child, a healthy baby girl named Isabella, Newcastle, PA, residents Elizabeth Mort and Alex Rodriguez returned home from the hospital expecting to settle in to the challenges and joys of parenthood.
PITTSBURGH - Jameson Hospital and Lawrence County Children and Youth Services (LCCYS) paid $143,500 to settle a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania on behalf of a couple whose newborn daughter was seized by LCCYS and held for five days after the mother failed a hos
PITTSBURGH - Indecent exposure charges against Carnegie Mellon University senior Katherine O'Connor will be dropped after she and another CMU student perform community service over the next four months. The ACLU of Pennsylvania represented O'Connor at a hearing earlier today.
PHILADELPHIA - The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and co-counsel filed two separate federal lawsuits today on behalf of individuals arrested for observing Philadelphia police in public.
HARRISBURG - In a continuing trend toward wresting control of women's healthcare away from patients and doctors, the Pennsylvania Senate today passed legislation to ban insurance coverage of abortion care in policies sold in the exchange created by the federal healthcare reform law.