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U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 19, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- A 710-year-old copy of the declaration of human rights known as the Magna Carta — the version that became part of English law — was auctioned for $21.3 million, a Sotheby's spokeswoman said. The document, which had been expected to draw bids of $30.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 2:35pm neoform

www.freedomsphoenix.com -- Safford Middle School officials did not violate the civil rights of a 13-year-old Safford girl when they forced her to disrobe and expose her breasts and pubic area four years ago while looking for a drug, according to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 17, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

USA Today -- Gay rights advocates expect Congress will soon move closer to approving a federal ban on job discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender workers. Rep. Barney Frank, a leading proponent, predicts the ban will win House approval in coming weeks... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 9:32am neoform

Yahoo News -- The family of Ron Goldman has purchased the rights to O.J. Simpson's canceled book, "If I Did It," from a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee in a settlement reached Monday. The book rights will be held in the name of Ron Goldman LLC, Goldman family attorn.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 12:38pm neoform

CNN -- The Supreme Court ruled against a former high school student Monday in the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner case -- a split decision that limits students' free speech rights. Joseph Frederick was 18 when he unveiled the 14-foot paper sign on a public sidewal.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 2:21pm neoform

FOX News -- The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists. The Web site identified different types of terrorists, and included.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 9:53am neoform

Alter Net -- The first Amendment right of free speech and the Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination are well known, but the Ninth Amendment is ignored. Pity, because it bears directly on abortion, the right to die, and gay rights. The enumeration in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 2:34pm mrmdc

BBC News -- A delegation of Inuit has travelled to Washington to argue that the US government's climate change policies violate human rights. The group has filed a legal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, demanding that the US limits its em.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 3:10pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Several dozen terrorism suspects believed to have been held at secret CIA prisons are still missing without trace, and the United States should reveal what has happened to them, a leading rights group said on Tuesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Pre.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 12, 2007 @ 10:32am mrmdc

Daily Kos -- Bush is fed up with hearing how his actions and policies violate our privacy rights. True to Bush’s Orwellian worldview, his answer is to create a privacy board to ostensibly protect our rights. In reality, it is Mr. Decider who controls the privacy boa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 14, 2006 @ 9:20am neoform

Yahoo News -- Nearly 60% of voters in the recent U.S. national elections believe the prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay should either be granted a hearing before an independent judge or be released to their home countries, and fewer than 20% of those polled believe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 11:03am mrmdc

MSNBC -- U.S. privacy protections rank among the worst in the democratic world, a London-based privacy organization said Wednesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 16, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- Lesbian rights pioneers Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, together for more than half a century, will get married in San Francisco City Hall this evening wearing the same pastel-colored pantsuits they donned four years ago when they wed the first time. Once.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 4, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Thousands of people are expected to gather in the US city of Memphis to mark 40 years since the death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Crowds will converge on the Lorraine Motel, where he was shot dead aged 39. Presidential hopefuls John M.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Authorities at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport began rounding up wild cats and kittens on Monday as part of a plan to get rid of them, despite an outcry by animal rights groups. Professional animal handlers started to trap cats living.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 11, 2007 @ 6:13pm neoform

BBC News -- A US human rights group says it is suing private security firm Blackwater for unspecified damages for war crimes and wrongfully killing Iraqi civilians. The Center for Constitutional Rights is acting on behalf of an injured survivor and three families.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

USA Today -- Of all the images of the civil rights movement, one of the most chilling is a photo of a black teenager in a shirtwaist dress and sunglasses walking through a screaming white mob. Since it was taken Sept. 4, 1957, Elizabeth Eckford has been the face of th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 24, 2007 @ 1:45pm neoform

CNN -- Former astronaut Lisa Nowak's lawyer contended Friday that the Orlando, Florida, police officer who interviewed his client after an alleged assault on her rival did not properly tell Nowak her rights. During cross-examination in the Orlando courtroom, Don.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

Washington Post -- Oliver W. Hill, 100, a Virginia lawyer who helped overturn legal segregation in his native state and was one of the country's foremost civil rights defenders during a six-decade career, died yesterday at his home in Richmond. He had a heart ailment. Hi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 17, 2007 @ 11:41am neoform

USA Today -- —Hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid goes to countries where girls as young as 12 are forced to marry, a rights abuse that is the focus of legislation to be introduced in Congress this month. In 2006, $623 million in U.S. funds went to 16 of 2.. Read More