A federal judge allowed a civil lawsuit against two CIA psychologists to move forward. Those Washington state psychologists were contracted by CIA to develop interrogation program which abused the detainees.
Since the so-called war on terror was waged by America, two CIA psychologist contractors are going to court. They are alleged to have designed the most infamous programs of the post-9/11 era and torture survivors are suing them .
Three watchdog reports published show how the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a problem with inadequate medical care in their detention facilities.
A federal judge has ruled that Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has obeyed the orders that were issued regarding the marriage license issuance. American Civil Liberties Union was also denied a request after they wanted her to reissue the unsigned licenses.
The city ordinance against the exposure of nipples in Missouri has temporarily been halted. In Springfield, Missouri, city leaders have been looking for ways to resolve a recent indecent exposure dispute among its residents.
Only about 100 Mexicans had the chance to go back to their families in the United States as the American Civil Liberties Union won against the Department of Homeland Security. Although 100 Mexicans have been identified, only 20 were approved by the US government.
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday sued Indiana Governor Mike Pence over his refusal to allow refugees fleeing Syria's civil war to resettle in the state, saying his position violates federal authority and the U.S. Constitution.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued two psychologists who devised the CIA's Bush-era interrogation program on Tuesday, saying they encouraged the agency "to adopt torture as official policy" and made millions of dollars in the process.
A U.S. appeals court appeared reluctant on Wednesday to put an immediate halt to the federal government's collection of millions of Americans' phone records, with the controversial spy program set to expire in November.
At 3:59 p.m. EDT on Sunday, the National Security Agency and telecommunications companies will begin mothballing a once-secret system that collected Americans' bulk telephone records, shutting down computers and sealing off warehouses of digital data.
Google Inc should not have to remove an anti-Islamic film from its YouTube website because a woman complained that she was duped into performing in the film that depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a pedophile, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday.
Massachusetts' top court on Monday paved the way for potentially thousands of people convicted of drugs crimes to be re-tried because their cases involved evidence from a rogue crime lab scientist.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake asked the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday to investigate the city's police department for civil rights violations after the death of a black man from injuries sustained in police custody.
A California civil liberties group launched a mobile application on Thursday that will let bystanders record cell phone videos of possible cases of police misconduct and then quickly save the footage to the organization's computer servers.
As a historic constitutional showdown over gay marriage looms this month at the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys are fighting over another bitterly disputed issue: their fees.
