Cases and Issues

Securing The Right To Vote, And Making It Count -- Laurence Britt discusses the issue of voting rights and voting irregularities.

Paying The Fee For The Damage Done -- Scott Forsyth discusses the further ramifications of a case concerning Freedom of Speech in school in the Daily Record of 10/01/08.

Schools Take Note: Obscurity Can Be Bliss -- Scott Forsyth discusses a case concerning Freedom of Speech in school in the Daily Record of 09/10/08.

Surveillance Without Limit -- Laurence W. Britt discusses the recent revisions to the FISA law in the Daily Record of 08/13/08.

More Civil Rights violations in Florida -- Scott Forsyth reviews a case involving the Pledge of Allegiance and parental consent in the Daily Record of 07/30/08.

Is police ignorance of the law an excuse? -- Scott Forsyth reviews a case where "Ignorance may be bliss, but the law should not hold that ignorance is power" in the Daily Record of 07/16/08. (PDF)

Same sex marriage in New York State -- Scott Forsyth reviews the decision in the Martinez case in the The Daily Record of 02/21/08 (PDF)

Do you really think we need to have this discussion? -- Scott Forsyth reviews the Albany case of two Muslim Americans and the sealing of documents and an opinion. (last paragraph added to the The Daily Record version of 11/02//07) (PDF)

Protect America Act of 2007 -- Scott Forsyth reviews what is and isn't in the revision to FISA passed this summer. (The Daily Record 10/05/07) (PDF)

Patriot Act -- Scott Forsyth discusses the extension of the controversial Act and its deficiencies. (The Daily Record, 1/5/07) (Word)

Reading Lists -- Jane Yoon reviews the Webster Central School District's decision to remove a book from its summer reading list. (The Daily Record, 9/14/06) (PDF)

Curfew -- Scott Forsyth considers the legitimacy of curfews. (The Daily Record)

Certificates of Relief -- Michael A. Burger discusses the use of a certificate of relief to restore a client's Second Amendment rights. (The Daily Record, 7/12/06) (PDF)

Student Speech -- Jane Yoon comments on the Ninth Circuit's recent decision regarding free speech in schools. (The Daily Record, 7/12/06) (PDF)

Immigration Reform -- Scott Forsyth discusses immigration reform. (The Daily Record)

School Locker Searches -- Amanda Oren explores students' privacy rights and school locker searches. (The Daily Record) (PDF)

Let Them Eat Cake -- Scott Forsyth reports on a freedom of speech case in the village of Caledonia. (The Daily Record) (PDF)

The Constitutionality of Border Searches -- Scott Forsyth discusses the constitutionality of border searches. Citizens returning from a religious conference in Canada were stopped at the border and detained for six hours. Read Scott Forsyth's account of their case, reprinted from The Daily Record. (PDF)

The Healthy Teens Act -- In the Fall GVCLU Newsletter, Barbara de Leeuw discusses this proposed law and urges readers to support it. To get county by county information about pregnancy rates and occurrences of sexually transmitted diseases, click here. This link will take you to the web site of "Get the Facts NY". Here is a link to their home page: Get the Facts NY.

A Flag Desecration Amendment? -- Read an article by Scott Forsyth. (PDF)

Does the Patriot Act allow excessive secrecy? -- Melissa Goodman, an attorney with the ACLU, spoke at our meeting on May 4. Here is an article she has written for the Daily Record on the topic. (PDF)

Benefits for same-sex partners at MCC? -- Read the NYCLU's press release about this case here.

Teaching Creationism -- Read an article by Scott Forsyth. (PDF)

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