Cases - Page 4 of 5 - ACLU of North Carolina

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Apr 12, 2017

Muslim Ban, ACLU, North Carolina, Georgia, CBP, FOIA

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Apr 12, 2017

Immigrants' Rights|
+1 Issue

Public Records on President Trump's Muslim Bans

ACLU affiliates across the country filed 13 separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits demanding government documents about the on-the-ground implementation of President Trump’s Muslim bans.

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Jan 11, 2017

Lonnie Billard, ACLU, Charlotte Catholic, teacher, gay, fired

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Jan 11, 2017

LGBTQIA+ Equality

LGBTQ Employment Protections

The ACLU is representing a former Teacher of the Year who was fired from his school in violation of federal law after announcing on Facebook that he was marrying his longtime same-sex partner.

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Nov 30, 2016

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Nov 30, 2016

Reproductive Freedom|
+1 Issue

Bryant v. Woodall

The ACLU and other reproductive rights groups successfully challenged North Carolina’s unconstitutional law that prevented doctors from providing abortion care to a woman after the twentieth week of pregnancy.

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Mar 28, 2016

Joaquin Carcano HB2 LGBT LGBTQ trans transgender North Carolina

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Mar 28, 2016

LGBTQIA+ Equality

LGBTQ Discrimination

The ACLU, ACLU of North Carolina, and Lambda Legal challenged North Carolina’s sweeping anti-LGBT law, House Bill 2, and its discriminatory replacement, House Bill 142, on behalf of LGBT North Carolinians and members of the ACLU of North Carolina.

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Mar 01, 2016

charter day school, aclu, pants, skirts, discrimination, girls, women

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Mar 01, 2016

Student Rights|
+1 Issue

Peltier v. Charter Day School (Discriminatory School Dress Codes)

The ACLU successfully represented three Brunswick County students in a legal challenge against a section of a K-8 public charter school’s dress code that requires female students to wear skirts to school and prohibits them from wearing pants or shorts.

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Apr 09, 2014

Lennie, Pearl, marriage equality, North Carolina

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Apr 09, 2014

LGBTQIA+ Equality

Freedom to Marry

The ACLU and ACLU of North Carolina won a 2014 lawsuit on behalf of three married, same-sex couples seeking state recognition of their marriages.

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Aug 12, 2013

ACLU, North Carolina, voting, voter suppression, voter ID, early voting

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Aug 12, 2013

Voting Rights & Democracy

League of Women Voters of North Carolina et al. v. North Carolina

The ACLU, the ACLU of North Carolina, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice successfully challenged North Carolina's voter suppression law that imposed a voter ID requirement and eliminated same-day registration, out-of-precinct voting, and a week of early voting.

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Mar 13, 2013

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Mar 13, 2013

Religious Liberty

Religious Liberty

The ACLU successfully represented three Rowan County residents in a challenge to their county commissioners’ practice of opening meetings by coercing the public to join them in prayers that overwhelmingly advance beliefs specific to one religion.

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Jun 13, 2012

marcie, chantelle, fisher-borne, north carolina, marriage, lgbt, adoption

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Jun 13, 2012

LGBTQIA+ Equality

Freedom to Marry & Second Parent Adoption

The ACLU helped win the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in North Carolina by successfully challenging the state's ban on marriage for same-sex couples.

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