ACLU Civil Liberties Union of Delaware
Defending Individual Rights and Personal Freedom
Events
Upcoming Conference:
Save the Date
"School Discipline: Exploring the Options"
March 5, 2010
Widener University School of Law
School Discipline Conference Brochure
Follow this link to a brochure with full schedule and speaker bios.
Please click here to find map. We will be in building #6, Law School Building in the Ruby Vale Moot Courtroom.
Update: Now offering 6 DE & PA CLE credits!
Please register by emailing spatterson@aclu-de.org
Online Registration Instructions
Please include this registration form as an attachment in your email or include the following information in the body of the email:
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Special Dietary Restrictions
Payment option: Student-$5, General-$20 or Attorney with CLE Credit- $125
If you are an attorney applying for CLE credit, please include your bar number.
Paper Registration Instructions
Please fill out, print and mail us this registration form.
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Mail Check to ACLF-DE, 100 West 10th St., Suite 603, Wilmington, DE 19801
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Upcoming Luncheon Program:
Please register by emailing aclu_publically@aclu-de.org
To pay by check:
Mail Check to ACLF-DE, 100 West 10th St., Suite 603, Wilmington, DE 19801
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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 will be an overview of prisoners’ rights litigation. It will include an overall summary of the substantive rights of prisoners under the US constitution and will touch briefly on prisoners’ federal statutory rights. It will also summarize the chief procedural hurdles and challenges for prisoners’ rights litigators created by the Prison Litigation Reform Act. It will focus especially 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 will be a brief discussion of the public policy considerations inherent in the nation’s policy of mass incarceration.
Past Programs:
Faith in the Constitution: Contemporary Issues in Religious Liberty Law
