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Nov 21, 2017

ACLU of Kentucky and McQuery v. Mercer County; ACLU of Kentucky, Meredith, and Harper v. Grayson County; ACLU of Kentucky, Wilson, and Tunnell v. Garrard County; ACLU of Kentucky, et al. v. Rowan County (2004)

These four lawsuits are the second set of challenges to Ten Commandments postings in county government buildings (four courthouses and one public hospital).

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Nov 21, 2017

Pedreira v. Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children, Inc. (2004)

Filed with the national ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights Project and a coalition of religous leaders and citizens to protest the firing of a former KBHC social worker who was fired for being a lesbian...

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Nov 21, 2017

McFarland v. Jefferson County Public Schools (2004)

Status: Lost

Filed in conjuction with the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights to defend the follow - up defense of the decades-old school desegragation plan. Parents of African American students who wanted their...

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Nov 21, 2017

Curington v. Richardson (2004)

Status: Other

Challenged the placement of Republican vote "challengers" in 59 polling places in predominantly African - American neighborhoods in the November 2003 election.

Case was dismissed...

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Nov 21, 2017

Commonwealth v. Harris (2004)

Status: Won

Along with the national ACLU's Women's Rights Project and Reproductive Freedom Project, we filed briefs in the trial and appeals courts in the criminal prosecution of a pregnant drug abuser. We...

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Nov 21, 2017

Jobe v. City of Catlettsburg (2004)

Status: Lost

Represented the commander of a local American Legion Post who wanted to distribute flyers by placing them under parked cars' windshield wipers.

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