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• July 01, 2025

  ACLU Wants To Oppose Ex-Yale Student's Defamation Suit

  Saying the issue is too important to sit out, the ACLU's Connecticut litigation arm and other nonprofits have asked a state appeals court's permission to file a friend-of-court brief to support different organizations that filed a rejected amicus brief in a separate case and were sued for defamation.

• July 01, 2025

  Compounding Restitution Is Unconstitutional, High Court Told

  Nonprofits, think tanks and legal scholars filed briefs this week urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that a federal law requiring criminals to continue paying restitution with compounding interest for decades after conviction is unconstitutional because it can exponentially increase punishment for a crime.

• June 27, 2025

  License Plate Readers Need Guardrails, Not Bans

  Relying on recent decisions that license plate recognition technology doesn't violate Fourth Amendment privacy rights, legislators should disregard alarmist calls for bans to outlaw the technology and instead focus on implementing responsible guidelines for using this valuable crime-solving tool, says Tim Lee at the Center for Individual Freedom.

• June 27, 2025

  States Can't Ignore Biden Admin Police Misconduct Findings

  While the federal government retreats from Biden-era Department of Justice findings of police misconduct, those same findings may have triggered significant legal obligations for state and local prosecutors under the Brady rule, says Matthew Segal at the ACLU.

• June 26, 2025

  Justices Expand Reach Of First Step Act In Resentencings

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that defendants can benefit from lighter sentences under the First Step Act if they were sentenced prior to the 2018 criminal justice reform law but later resentenced after their original sentences were tossed.

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