A Thurston County Superior Court judge ordered the removal of misleading and inaccurate language in the ballot title for Initiative 966, a measure seeking to restrict how individuals may prove eligibility for state and local public benefits.
A Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled in favor of a challenge to misleading terms in the proposed ballot title for an initiative that would roll back state protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The U.S. government apologized and provided compensation to Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb, an Iraqi refugee whom federal agents unlawfully stopped, interrogated, arrested, imprisoned, and sought to deport.
The national ACLU brought suit on behalf of five men who were kidnapped and secretly transferred to U.S.-run prisons or foreign intelligence agencies overseas, where they were interrogated under torture.
The ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief protecting the rights of someone who sought to be legally designated as a de facto parent – one who has been found by the court to have assumed the role of a parent for a substantial period of time.
