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The ACLU of Massachusetts today filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of tenured philosophy professor Lauren Barthold charging Gordon College with retaliating against her because she made public statements disagreeing with Gordon’s president who had asked President Obama to allow federal contrac
Roxbury resident Mary Holmes today added the MBTA as a defendant in the civil rights lawsuit she brought last August against two of the agency's transit officers who beat her and violated her constitutional rights in 2014.
Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a case brought by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) against the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources.
Last night, in between Governor Charlie Baker’s latest public prevarication on transgender rights and the subsequent tidal wave of boos that caus
Annie Dookhan, the disgraced chemist who became the focus of much of the scandal at the Hinton State Drug Lab, is now out of prison on parole, yet a troubling fact remains.
On Tuesday, April 5 at a hearing beginning at 9am before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, retired federal judge Nancy Gertner, and dozens of legal, community and religious organizations will ask the state's