Word: aclu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), challenged the statute for violating academic freedom, lacking scientific merit, and bringing religion into public schools, ACLU lawyers worried that the law's vagueness might have invalidated it for being unsound rather than unconstitutional...
...ruling sets a precedent that should make it easier for other courts to overturn similar laws. "The judge made it perfectly clear that Creationism is pure and simply religion," an ACLU spokesman in Arkansas said yesterday...
Louisiana has enacted a similar law requiring the teaching of Creationism in its public schools beginning this fall. The Louisiana ACLU has challenged the statute on the same grounds as in Arkansas. Since Louisiana is in a different court district, Overton's decision will not invalidate...
...American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) may file suit against Northern Illinois University, which threatened to punish three student reporters who faked illnesses when investigating the school's health services, an ACLU attorney said yesterday...
...university last week dropped all charges of misrepresentation and falsifying information, shortly after the ACLU lodged a protest. But the civil liberties group wants a guarantee that the school administration will protect the First Amendment rights of reporters, Harvey Grossman, the ACLU spokesman, said. As of Friday--the ACLU's deadline--the university failed to agree to review the incident, he added...