Labor Blogger and Activist Threatened, Free Speech Rights Violated
ACLU-TN Cooperating Attorney: Bruce Kramer The author of the blog Tennessee Labor Coverage had been covering attempts to dissolve the collective bargaining rights of Memphis sanitation workers and to...
View ArticleWilliams v. City of Sevierville
(Case No. 3:11-cv-00270, U.S. District Court, Eastern District, Knoxville, Judge Varlan) ACLU-TN Cooperating Attorney: Timothy A. Housholder, of Gilreath & Associates, Plaintiffs: Rose Williams...
View ArticleThe Contributor, et. al., v. City of Brentwood
(Case No. 3:11-cv-00624, U.S. District Court, Middle District, Nashville, Judge Campbell) ACLU-TN Cooperating Attorney: Irwin Venick, of Dobbins, Venick, Kuhn & Byassee Plaintiffs: The Contributor,...
View ArticleOccupy Nashville, et al v. Haslam, et al
(Case No. 3:11-cv-01037, U.S. District Court, Middle District, Nashville, Judge Trauger) ACLU-TN Cooperating Attorneys: Tricia Herzfeld of Ozment Law; David Briley of Bone McAllester Norton; Patrick G....
View ArticleHaywood High School Principal Proselytizes, Makes Anti-LGBT Remarks
Cooperating Attorneys: Amanda C. Goad, Staff Attorney for ACLU LGBT Project ; Heather L. Weaver, Staff Attorney for ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief; Galen Sherwin, Staff Attorney for...
View ArticlePostcards Only at the Rutherford County Jail
In September 2013, ACLU-TN received several letters from inmates at the Rutherford County Jail and their relatives concerning a new postcard-only policy that limited inmates’ ability to receive any...
View ArticleAbramson et. al. v. Dreyzehner et. al.
(No. 3:14-cv-1959, Jude Haynes/Bryant, United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division) ACLU-TN Cooperating Attorneys: Carolyn W. Schott and Amy R. Mohan, Sherrard...
View ArticleFree Speech, Social Media and Williamson County Schools
In September 2014, ACLU-TN joined with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to oppose a Williamson County Board of Education (WCBE) policy that regulates off-campus speech on social media and...
View ArticleProtecting the Free Speech of Williamson County Educators
In September 2014, several Hillsboro School educators met after school hours and off of school grounds to discuss the school board, its actions and statements, and the then recent school board election...
View ArticleProtecting Haywood County Inmates Right to Read
In late December 2014, ACLU-TN was contacted by the father of a Haywood County jail inmate who told us that inmates were being denied the right to read any books or magazines other than the Bible. On...
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