ACLU-PA Sues U. of Pittsburgh Over Student Group Suspension
The ACLU of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against the University of Pittsburgh over the school's suspension of its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter in apparent retaliation for criticisms that the group made of the university.
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
TLGBQIA+ 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...
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Jan 22, 2015
Peters v. Wilkes-Barre
Due Process
Status: Closed
The ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a federal lawsuit on January 22, 2015, on behalf of landlords and tenants whose rental properties were seized by the city of Wilkes-Barre under an ordinance that authorizes...