| Surviving Partner of Missouri State Trooper Challenges Benefits Policy : |
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri and the ACLU of Kansas & Western Missouri filed a lawsuit today on behalf of Kelly Glossip, whose partner, Dennis Engelhard, was a state trooper killed in the line of duty while responding to an accident on Christmas Day of last year. Missouri offers survivor benefits to spouses of state troopers who are killed in the line of duty, but excludes committed same-sex partners from receiving those benefits. Glossip is seeking the same survivor benefits provided to opposite-sex partners. |
| 112310 Court Orders Sheriff on Flags and Protests : |
A federal court entered a judgment yesterday prohibiting St. Francois County Sheriff Daniel Bullock from enforcing Missouri's statutes prohibiting desecration of the national and Missouri Flags and protests near funerals. |
| 111810 ACLU Files Additional Suit Against CMS and City : |
The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU-EM) has filed a civil suit against the City of St. Louis and Correctional Medical Services (CMS), the medical provider for the city jails. Filed on behalf of an HIV-positive inmate at the Medium Security Institute in St. Louis, the lawsuit cites life-threatening deliberate indifference to a serious medical condition. |
| 101210 ACLU-EM Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit : |
The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU-EM) filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Correctional Medical Services (CMS) and the City of St. Louis today.
The wrongful death lawsuit was filed on behalf of Landa Poke, sister of Courtland Lucas. Lucas died in the custody of the St. Louis City Justice Center on May 25, 2009. Poke is represented by ACLU-EM cooperating attorney Rodney Holmes. |
| 081610 ACLU Wins Judgment in Funeral Protests : |
The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri today won a judgment in favor of Plaintiff Shirley Phelps-Roper, protecting her First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Chief United States District Judge Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr., declared Missouriâ•˙s funeral protest statute unconstitutional. The court also struck down a back-up statute intended to go in effect when the original law was found unconstitutional. |
| 072110 Immigrant's Parental Rights : |
The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Southern District reversed an order terminating the parental rights of an immigrant whose child was illegally place for adoption. The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri and American Civil Liberties Union of Western Missouri and Kansas file a friend-of-the-court brief. |
| 063010 ACLU-EM Issues Travel Alert For Arizona : |
In response to civil liberties threats caused by the recent passage of Arizona's racial profiling law, the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri issued a travel alert today informing Missouri residents of their rights when stopped by law enforcement when traveling in Arizona. The unconstitutional law, known as SB 1070, requires law enforcement agents to demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are not authorized to be in the U.S. If individuals are unable to prove to officers that they are permitted to be in the U.S., they may be subject to warrantless arrests without any probable cause that they have committed a crime. |
| 0520 ACLU supports favorable ruling in Free Speech case : |
The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri applauded a ruling issued May 11 by Missouri Supreme Court Judge Michael A. Wolff. The Supreme Court decided that an attorney may be disciplined for contempt of court but could not be imprisoned for it. |
| 041510 ACLU Wins for Injuctive Relief : |
The United States District Court, Eastern Missouri, has ruled in favor of plaintiff Frank Ancona, Imperial Wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who was seeking a temporary restraining order against the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Ancona was represented by the ACLU of Eastern Missouri. |
| 041310 ACLU Applauds Ordered Release of Documents : |
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| 022510 Proposed Ballot Initiative Withdrawn : |
Faced with an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, a political operative who has failed twice before to place an anti-affirmative action initiative on the Missouri ballot has abandoned his latest attempt to rewrite the state constitution to ban equal opportunity programs |
| 020410 Anti-Leafleting Law Consent Judgment : |
In a consent judgment entered today by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the City of St. Louis and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department are ordered to stop enforcing a St. Louis City ordinance that criminalized the placement of political leaflets on vehicles parked on public streets. |
