ACLU Settles Suit on Illegal-Immigrant Holding Facility
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The federal government yesterday announced the settlement of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against conditions at a government detention center for illegal immigrant children and families in Taylor, Tex.
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ALBANY, Feb. 27  â Five former managers from a pallet and crate maker pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the companyâs hiring of illegal immigrants, 10 months after raids in 26 states signaled a federal crackdown on employers that break the law to get cheap labor.
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The American Civil Liberties Union is suing a unit of Boeing Co., charging that it assisted the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in abducting suspect foreigners to overseas prisons where it says they were held and tortured.
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A settlement was reached Saturday in the dispute over the estate of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, including the rights to her name and image, a lawyer in the case said.
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TUCSON, Ariz.  - A federal judge on Wednesday  lifted a block on a controversial Arizona law aimed at  restricting government services for illegal immigrants.
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Oregon attorney Brandon Mayfield, wrongly arrested by FBI agents after the 2004 Madrid terrorist bombings, has settled his lawsuit against the U.S. government for $2 million, his lawyer said Wednesday.
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Attorneys representing immigrant children detained in Texas with their families have reached a settlement that avoids a trial on their lawsuit against the federal government, officials said Monday.
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The largest American natural gas pipeline operator settled allegations of involvement in illegal payments under the United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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Hispanic activists and the ACLU sued Hazleton on Tuesday over one of the toughest crackdowns on illegal immigrants by a U.S. city.
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The American Civil Liberties Union is suing a Boeing Co. unit it accuses of helping the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency transfer foreign suspects to overseas prisons where it says they were held and tortured.
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Oil giant Unocal Corp. has reached an agreement in principle to settle human rights lawsuits involving allegations of enslaved labor during a 1990s pipeline project in Southeast Asia, a company spokesman said.
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TAMPA, Fla. - A woman who sued over the death of her baby, born over a jail cell toilet even though she complained of labor pains for nearly 12 hours, has received a $350,000 settlement from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
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By Associated Press  PHOENIX -- Arizona legislative negotiators agreed Wednesday to punish employers who hire illegal immigrants by suspending or revoking licenses, a step that would put violators out of business at least temporarily.
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PHOENIX, Arizona  - In recent weeks the battle lines in a heated debate in the United States over illegal immigration have been drawn across the sidewalk outside an Arizona furniture store.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has settled a complaint with an online company it says was illegally selling telephone records.
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TUCSCON, Ariz.  - A federal judge on Wednesday  lifted a block on a controversial Arizona law aimed at  restricting government services for illegal immigrants.
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The American Civil Liberties Union  filed suit on Thursday on behalf of five Iraq war protesters  arrested during a campaign stop by President Bush when they  simulated the infamous human pyramid at Abu Ghraib prison,  wearing only thongs.