ACRU filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the private association which had bought the Mt. Soledad property in the sale invalidated by the Ninth circuit. But the Supreme Court denied the petition because the Ninth Circuit had invalidated the sale based on the California state constitution.
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ACRU filed a brief in support of the City of San Diego in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on an appeal by Paulson from a Federal judge’s order approving the sale of the Mt. Soledad property including the cross to a private association. The three judge Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the sale as valid, as the ACRU brief urged. But Plaintiff won a rehearing en banc by the entire 9th circuit which reversed and invalidated the sale on the grounds that it amounted to an unconstitutional establishment of religion under the California constitution.
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Decided by the United States Supreme Court on March 6, 2006, in favor of ACRU’s position. In this case the Supreme Court held that the Federal government has the power to condition Federal educational aid on maintenance of equal access to the campus for military recruiters as compared to other recruiters.
Decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on January 23, 2003, in favor of ACRU’s position.
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This case involves whether use by the Scouts of a military base for their national Jamboree involves an unconstitutional establishment of religion. The District Court held that it does. Oral arguments were heard on the case in April of 2006, before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh District, in Illinois. On April 12, 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed the case finding that the ACLU did not have standing..
Case decided by the United States Supreme Court on June 27, 2002 in favor of ACRU’s position. This case held that school voucher programs do not amount to an unconstitutional establishment of religion.
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Today, the ACRU filed an amicus brief on DC v. Heller, known as the DC Gun Ban Case.
Peter Ferrara, General Counsel for the ACRU, said this,
The Courts cannot treat the Second Amendment as a politically incorrect, disfavored stepchild of the Bill of Rights. Fidelity to the Constitution requires that courts give it the same zealous protection as every other right stated in our founding document. The Amendment is not being read broadly to protect the rights and liberties of the people if it is somehow interpreted to allow the government to adopt a complete ban on handguns and the use of other firearms […]
The above article, by Jack Kemp, found here.
Peter Ferrara‘s, Slimming Entitlement Costs, dated October 8, 2007, found here.
The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court on Friday, October 12 in the case of Parker v. District of Columbia urging the Court to grant the requested writ of certiorari on behalf of 5 of the original 6 plaintiffs seeking to strike down the District’s gun control laws as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had found that these 5 plaintiffs did not have standing in the case and dismissed them from the suit.
However, in regard to the remaining plaintiff, Dick Anthony Heller, the D.C. Circuit […]
Over the last several years, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has conducted a thorough survey of campus speech codes at over 350 American colleges and universities and compiled the data in one location on FIRE’s website, Spotlight: The Campus Freedom Resource. For each of these schools, FIRE provides a rating based on whether and to what extent its policies violate constitutional speech protections. A green-light rating indicates that a university’s policies do not impinge on free expression, a yellow-light institution has policies that could excessively regulate or ban protected speech, and a red-light rating is given to institutions with at least one policy that […]
