ACLU Civil Liberties Union of Delaware
Defending Individual Rights and Personal Freedom
Events
ACLU-DE CLE Luncheon
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
11am-1pm
Community Services Building, Room 105
2 DE & PA CLE Credits
Update: DE & PA CLE Credits approved
Online Registration Instructions
Please register by emailing spatterson@aclu-de.org
Include the following information in the body of the email:
Name
Address
Phone Number
Special Dietary Restrictions
Payment option: General-$20 or Attorney with CLE Credit- $80
If you are an attorney applying for CLE credit, please include your bar number.
Paper Registration Instructions
Please fill out, print and mail us registration information:
Name
Address
Phone Number
Special Dietary Restrictions
Payment option: General-$20 or Attorney with CLE Credit- $80
If you are an attorney applying for CLE credit, please include your bar number.
To pay by check:
Make out check to ACLF and mail to:
ACLF-DE, 100 West 10th St., Suite 603, Wilmington, DE 19801
To pay with a credit card:
Past Programs:
Annual Membership Meeting
Wednesday, May 19
7pm-9pm
Community Service Building, Room 105
Catherine Crump is a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she litigates privacy and free speech cases. One of her primary interests is the impact of new technologies on these rights, especially the internet. Catherine has litigated cases on such topics as whether the government needs a warrant to obtain a list of the websites an individual reads, and under what
circumstances the government may censor the Internet. She has also written extensively on speech and privacy and comments regularly to the press on these issues.
"School Discipline: Exploring the Options"
March 5, 2010
Widener University School of Law
Follow this link for speakers handouts.
School Discipline Conference Brochure
Follow this link to a brochure with full schedule and speaker bios.
An Introduction to Prisoners' Rights Litigation
Margaret Winter is the Associate Director of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. She has successfully argued a prisoners’ rights case in the United States Supreme Court. In 2008, she won an injunction against Sheriff Joe Arpaio (the self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America”), on behalf of the 8,000 pretrial detainees in Maricopa County Jails. She is currently involved in a challenge to conditions in L.A. County Jail, the largest jail in the nation.
She successfully challenged conditions on Mississippi’s Death Row, and representing the thousand men confined in Mississippi’s super-maximum security facility she obtained a series of sweeping consent decrees that have resulted in the release from super-max confinement of 90 percent of the prison’s population. Representing all Mississippi prisoners with HIV, she won one of the first federal injunctions requiring that all HIV+ prisoners be provided treatment consistent with NIH/CDC guidelines. She has testified before the National Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons and the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, and served on a panel of experts for the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission that helped draft national guidelines to prevent rape in prison. She received her B.A. from St Johns College Annapolis and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Program Description
The CLE was an overview of prisoners’ rights litigation. It included an overall summary of the substantive rights of prisoners under the US constitution and will touch briefly on prisoners’ federal statutory rights. It also summarized the chief procedural hurdles and challenges for prisoners’ rights litigators created by the Prison Litigation Reform Act. It focused on cases for injunctive rather than damages relief, and will include discussion of the unique benefits and challenges of class actions under Rule 23 (b)(2), F. R. Civ. P. in prison reform litigation. There was a brief discussion of the public policy considerations inherent in the nation’s policy of mass incarceration.
Faith in the Constitution: Contemporary Issues in Religious Liberty Law
Daniel Mach, Esq. is the Director of Litigation at the ACLU's Program onFreedom of Religion and Belief. He litigates and coordinates a wide range of religious liberty cases nationwide, and often writes, teaches, and speaks publicly on religious freedom issues.
Prior to his work at the ACLU, Mr. Mach was a partner in the Washington, DC office of Jenner & Block, where he specialized in First Amendment law. He received a B.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. from NYU School of Law.
Program Description
The CLE addressed contemporary issues in religious liberty law, with a particular focus on governmental displays of religion and religion in public schools. The presentation reviewed the rules that determine who has standing to raise constitutional challenges to religious displays. The CLE then covered the Establishment Clause standards applicable to such challenges, identifying leading cases, rules, and themes. We also discussed Salazar v. Buono (argued in the U.S. Supreme Court in October), and its potential impact on this contentious area of the law. The CLE then turned to religion in public schools, covering a variety of topics, including: standing; Bible courses in public schools; challenges to the teaching of evolution, including the teaching of creationism and "intelligent design"; government-sponsored prayer in school; and students' religious expression.
