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The US District Court entered a consent decree requiring the Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Mental Health (“ADMH”) to provide timely psychiatric services to class members, persons with mental illness or intellectual disabilities whose competency to stand trial is questioned.
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has claimed 647 people illegally crossover voted and will be turning over those names, once verified, to the Attorney General to potentially prosecute.
The Eleventh Circuit recognized for the first time that employers have an obligation to provide job modifications to workers who are breastfeeding on the same terms as they accommodate workers for other conditions, and failing to provide them with accommodations can be tantamount to firing them.
We at the ACLU of Alabama join with our Virginia colleagues' reaction to the recent events in Charlottesville.
The ACLU of Alabama, affiliates in 10 states, and the national ACLU filed open records requests today demanding copies of any communications between the Alabama Office of the Attorney General and the federal government regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
On Friday, a federal judge ruled that an Alabama law restricting abortion services for minors was unconstitutional. Under Alabama law, minors must have parental consent for an abortion but they can apply for judicial bypass if necessary.