Tag: Aclu
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The end of Title 42 and the return to normal is ‘a real mess’ CU Law professor says
No one has a crystal ball. But with the expiration of Title 42, one thing appears fairly certain: The return to “normal” is going to be messy. “We’re sort of back to the problems we used to have prior to Title 42,” said Megan Hall, an immigration lawyer who teaches refugee and asylum law at…
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New ACLU legal director Tim Macdonald on mentors and today’s top civil rights issues
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tim Macdonald always believed lawyers have a responsibility to give back to their communities and represent disenfranchised people. Now he’s stepping away from corporate law and taking his talents to the ACLU of Colorado full time. The organization picked Macdonald as its new legal director,…
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ACLU of Colorado names Tim Macdonald as legal director
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The ACLU of Colorado has chosen its first new legal director in nearly 30 years. Tim Macdonald, who led a landmark trial last year over Denver police’s use of force during the 2020 George Floyd protests, will replace retiring Mark Silverstein. Macdonald comes to the…
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Coalition of business, industry groups seek to stop ‘Fair Workweek’ bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A coalition of business and industry groups is rallying behind efforts to stop a proposal to require businesses to pay employees for showing up — even when they did not do any work because there’s not enough work that day. For workers, the situation could mean…
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ACLU of Colorado calls on local governments to let those with felony convictions run for office
The American Civil Liberties Union sent letters to 12 Colorado governments Wednesday, demanding they stop barring people with felony convictions from running for public office. This warning comes after the ACLU successfully sued Aurora last year for the city charter’s prohibition of former felons from holding elected office. An Arapahoe County judge permanently blocked Aurora…
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Appeals court says prohibition on involuntary servitude not applicable to prison labor
Colorado voters who made slavery and involuntary servitude unconstitutional in 2018 did not mean to abolish the state Department of Corrections’ prison labor program, the Court of Appeals ruled last week. A three-judge panel for the appellate court turned away the constitutional challenge of inmate A. Mark Lamar, who argued the general requirement that prisoners…
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Q&A with Mark Silverstein | Three decades advocating for civil liberties in and out of court
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save FAST FACTS: Mark Silverstein has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union for 31 years, including as the legal director since 1996 for the ACLU of Colorado He has announced his retirement from the organization,…
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Court allows Kansas Two Step case to move forward
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Blaine and Samuel Shaw were heading west on Interstate 70 on their way to Colorado in December 2017 when the Kansas Highway Patrol stopped their minivan for driving 14 miles over the speed limit. Master Trooper Doug Schulte noted that the vehicle looked like it…
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Larimer County court rules it’s unconstitutional to prosecute Fort Collins’ camping ban
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