In our first segment this morning, RCL features Part #1 of of a short series entitled "Your Rights at the Border" which was recorded live at Damon Mason Auditorium on July 1st. This series, which will be available online with video and audio shortly, features helpful information regarding your rights when crossing back into the United States and is presented by some of the best legal minds in Buffalo and Western New York. "Your Rights at the Border, Part 1" Presented by Sophie Feal, Esq. of the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Erie County Bar Association. Ms. Feal discusses border inspections and searches, and relevant issues affecting admission to the U.S. from Canada since 9/11.
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In a significant victory for the First Amendment, this week the NYCLU and ACLU prevailed when a federal appeals court ruled that the U.S. government had not adequately justified its denial of a visa to a Swiss professor and leading scholar of the Muslim world. The decision, which reverses a ruling of a lower federal court, comes in a case in which the American Civil Liberties Union contended that the government's exclusion from the U.S. of Professor Tariq Ramadan violated the First Amendment rights of organizations inside the United States that had invited Ramadan to meet with and speak to their members |
NYCLU -1 YANKEES-0 In a settlement approved by a federal judge, the New York Yankees have said they will not restrict spectators’ movements during the playing of "God Bless America" at the new Yankee Stadium. The New York Civil Liberties Union had sued the Yankees and the NYPD on behalf of Bradford Campeau-Laurion, a Queens man who was ejected from the old Yankee Stadium by police officers last August after trying to use the restroom during "God Bless America." In a separate judgment, the City must pay $10,000 to Campeau-Laurion. Campeau-Laurion has pledged a portion of the judgment to be donated to the NYCLU to assist in the ongoing fight for civil liberties. |
