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In a victory for reproductive rights, the Obama Administration has modified a Bush Administration policy designed to allow insurance companies, hospitals and other health care providers to refuse to offer basic reproductive health services, including birth control and life-saving abortions.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held this week that school officials in the Town of Burlington could not be sued for money damages even if they violated the constitutional rights of Avery Doninger, a high school student who called the school principal a "douchebag" in a
"Secular discussion of religious material is possible and rewarding," prize-winning student Connor Harris wrote, "but it requires teachers to be sensitive to constitutional concerns [and] their students' beliefs."Harris was awarded the $1,000 first prize in the Ethel S.
The ACLU of Connecticut receives and responds to numerous letters and telephone calls from transgender people and their families affected by "pervasive discrimination in virtually every aspect of life," Staff Attorney David McGuire told a legislative committee March 21.
Allowing prisoners to earn credits that reduce the length of their sentences could help Connecticut's money problems, reduce prison overcrowding, and improve prison conditions, an ACLU staff lawyer has told a General Assembly committee.
A federal judge Tuesday heard a plea on behalf of a group of Enfield parents and students that the town be permanently banned from holding graduation exercises in First Cathedral in Bloomfield.