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Court Upholds Privacy Advocate’s Right to Post Public Records on Website

Judge rules that new law prohibiting dissemination of Social Security Numbers is unconstitutional as applied to website of privacy advocate B.J. Ostergren.

Richmond, VA - Federal Court Judge Robert E.

August 22, 2008

Virginia Court Affirms Vermont’s Jurisdiction in Same-Sex Couple’s Interstate Custody Dispute

Frederick County, VA – A state circuit court judge has rejected yet another attempt to overturn a Vermont custody order giving child visitation rights to a lesbian parent from a now-dissolved civil union.

August 20, 2008

ACLU Warns Virginia Housing Authorities Not to Interfere with Political Canvassing

Letter sent to all housing authority officials after Bristol Redevelopment and Housing Authority blocks door-to-door campaigning. Civil liberties group is prepared to represent canvassers or tenants whose First Amendment rights are violated.

July 31, 2008

Norfolk Drops Criminal Charges against Music Artist for On-stage Comments

ACLU of Virginia had agreed to provide legal representation to rapper ‘Boots’ Riley, who was charged with violating Virginia’s cursing in public law.

July 24, 2008

Fourth Circuit Upholds Fredericksburg Prayer Policy

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor says Fredericksburg’s requirement that meeting-opening prayers be nonsectarian is constitutional

Richmond, VA -- A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld Fredericksburg City Council’s policy requirin

July 23, 2008

State Agrees Not to Enforce New Social Security Number Dissemination Law against Privacy Rights Advocate

ACLU says new law infringes on free speech rights.

Richmond, VA - In federal court today, a lawyer with the Office of the Virginia Attorney General agreed temporarily not to enforce a new state law against privacy activist B.J. Ostergren.

June 30, 2008