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07.23.04
Trial Begins Monday in ACLU’s Historic Challenge to Ohio’s “Hanging Chad” Punch Cards
Trial Set for 9 A.M. at U.S. District Court in Akron, Judge David Dowd
CLEVELAND – In the first case of its kind to go to trial, a federal court in Ohio will hear arguments starting Monday in the American Civil Liberties Union’s challenge to use of the infamous “hanging chad” punch card machines and other inadequate voting technologies in the upcoming election. “Every voter in Ohio should be Read more…
Voting Rights
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07.09.04
Visit ACLU of Ohio Volunteer and Board Member Dan Tokaji’s Blog for Expert Analysis on the Voting Rights Case
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/blogs/tokaji/
Voting Rights
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06.23.04
Jeff Gamso Argues in Front of Supreme Court of Ohio
From 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 29, ACLU of Ohio Legal Director Jeff Gamso will appear before the Supreme Court of Ohio. He will be arguing a death penalty issue. It used to be that when a person was sentenced to die by a jury and the death sentence was reversed for Read more…
Death Penalty
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06.07.04
ACLU Brings Anti-USA Patriot Act Campaign to Ohio Television
Students Ask "Who Is Defending Our Constitution?"
From June 3, 2004 through June 25, 2004, the American Civil Liberties Union will air thirty-second television ads on cable television in the Cleveland, Columbus, Lima, Youngstown and Zanesville markets featuring schoolchildren who question the government’s restrictions of basic freedoms in the name of national security. The advertisements focus on provisions of the USA PATRIOT Read more…
National Security
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06.02.04
ACLU of Ohio Announces New Legal Director Jeff Gamso
CLEVELAND—The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio today announced the appointment of Jeffrey Gamso as legal director. Gamso, a Toledo defense lawyer and ACLU of Ohio volunteer attorney, assumes leadership of the agency’s statewide legal department and litigation docket today, June 1. “The people of Ohio deserve the diligence of the ACLU to defend Read more…
General Civil Liberties