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Civil rights groups agree to end lawsuit against Florida's 'Anti-Riot Act'
Civil rights groups have dropped their federal lawsuit against Florida’s 2021 “Anti-Riot Act” in the wake of a federal appeals court’s decision concluding that the law’s heightened scrutiny of riot-related acts doesn't apply to peaceful demonstrators. -
Judge blocks provision of law that criminalizes transportation of migrants in Florida
A federal court judge has blocked Florida officials from enforcing a section of a law passed last year that subjects anyone who transports people known to have unlawfully entered the United States to felony charges. -
ACLU: ' Florida’s New Alien Land Law is chilling mortgage loans to all Asians'
SB 264 bars Chinese citizens from buying land near military installations, infrastructure facilities -
Judge enjoins state law limiting third-party voter registration groups
Senate Bill 7020 bars non-U.S. citizens from voter registration work that involves handling forms -
Proposed State Capitol conduct rules seen as threat to free speech
The ACLU of Florida is warning that proposed new free-speech rules in and around the State Capitol buildings pose a threat to constitutional rights and give Capitol Police the power to silence views they disfavor. -
Oral arguments completed in federal lawsuit challenging Jacksonville City Council districts
With oral arguments completed, plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit seeking to invalidate Jacksonville’s City Council districts as discriminatory toward Black voters expect a decision before city elections are held in the spring of next year. -
Federal judge blocks enforcement of key section of Florida's new 'anti-riot law'
Civil rights groups this week welcomed a federal district court opinion that found Florida’s “anti-riot law,” House Bill 1, violates the Constitution and chills the legitimate free-speech rights of protesters. -
Florida civil-rights groups sue to block enforcement anti-riot law
Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new Florida law that aims to counter violence and disorder during protests have filed a motion to halt enforcement of a key section of the law. -
Detention, near deportation of U.S. citizen gives ACLU reason to be concerned, attorney says
The ACLU of Florida said in a posting on its website that it filed a federal lawsuit Dec. 3 on behalf of a U.S. citizen who was detained by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office on behalf Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). -
GEO Group calls allegations about immigration detentions 'malicious lies'
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- One of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's single largest private prison contractors, GEO Group, contends that a Florida-based human rights group is committing libel and defamation for protesting its practices. -
ACLU throws support behind U.S. citizen detained as undocumented immigrant in Miami
The ACLU is representing a man who, despite being a U.S. citizen, was detained in Miami by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE).