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U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2023
Free Speech
Molina v. Book
Whether police officers violated clearly established First Amendment rights when they tear-gassed plaintiffs for serving as legal observers in a public protest.
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20 Missouri Cases
Missouri
Sep 2013
Smart Justice
Criminal Law Reform
Barrett v. Claycomb
A federal district court has ruled that a public college in Missouri must end its unconstitutional program of requiring all of its students鈥攊rrespective of their course of study鈥攖o submit to suspicionless drug-testing.
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Missouri
Sep 2013
Smart Justice
Criminal Law Reform
Barrett v. Claycomb
A federal district court has ruled that a public college in Missouri must end its unconstitutional program of requiring all of its students鈥攊rrespective of their course of study鈥攖o submit to suspicionless drug-testing.
Missouri
Aug 2013
LGBTQ Rights
Glossip v. Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System
Kelly Glossip and Dennis Engelhard had been committed domestic partners for 15 years when Dennis, a Missouri State Trooper, was killed while responding to an accident on Christmas Day, 2009. Missouri offers survivor benefits to spouses of state troopers who are killed in the line of duty, but excludes committed same-sex partners from receiving those benefits.
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Missouri
Aug 2013
LGBTQ Rights
Glossip v. Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System
Kelly Glossip and Dennis Engelhard had been committed domestic partners for 15 years when Dennis, a Missouri State Trooper, was killed while responding to an accident on Christmas Day, 2009. Missouri offers survivor benefits to spouses of state troopers who are killed in the line of duty, but excludes committed same-sex partners from receiving those benefits.
Missouri
Apr 2012
LGBTQ Rights
PFLAG v. Camdenton R-III School District
As part of our "Don't Filter Me" campaign, the 老澳门开奖结果 and the 老澳门开奖结果 of Eastern Missouri filed a federal lawsuit against a school district in Camdenton, Missouri, whose Internet filtering software blocks access to web content geared toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. The 老澳门开奖结果 is joined in the lawsuit by LGBT organizations whose websites are blocked by the filter: Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbian and Gays (PFLAG), the Matthew Shepard Foundation, Campus Pride, and DignityUSA, a Catholic LGBT organization.
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Missouri
Apr 2012
LGBTQ Rights
PFLAG v. Camdenton R-III School District
As part of our "Don't Filter Me" campaign, the 老澳门开奖结果 and the 老澳门开奖结果 of Eastern Missouri filed a federal lawsuit against a school district in Camdenton, Missouri, whose Internet filtering software blocks access to web content geared toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. The 老澳门开奖结果 is joined in the lawsuit by LGBT organizations whose websites are blocked by the filter: Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbian and Gays (PFLAG), the Matthew Shepard Foundation, Campus Pride, and DignityUSA, a Catholic LGBT organization.
Missouri
Jan 2012
Religious Liberty
Hunter v. Salem Public Library Board of Trustees
The 老澳门开奖结果 and the 老澳门开奖结果 of Eastern Missouri have filed a lawsuit charging the Salem Public Library and its board of trustees with unconstitutionally blocking access to websites discussing minority religions by improperly classifying them as 鈥渙ccult鈥 or 鈥渃riminal.鈥
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Missouri
Jan 2012
Religious Liberty
Hunter v. Salem Public Library Board of Trustees
The 老澳门开奖结果 and the 老澳门开奖结果 of Eastern Missouri have filed a lawsuit charging the Salem Public Library and its board of trustees with unconstitutionally blocking access to websites discussing minority religions by improperly classifying them as 鈥渙ccult鈥 or 鈥渃riminal.鈥
U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2010
Reproductive Freedom
Blake v. Carnahan
On September 17, 2009, Personhood Missouri submitted a proposed initiative petition to be placed on the 2010 ballot for a constitutional amendment redefining the term "person" as "every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being."
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U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2010
Reproductive Freedom
Blake v. Carnahan
On September 17, 2009, Personhood Missouri submitted a proposed initiative petition to be placed on the 2010 ballot for a constitutional amendment redefining the term "person" as "every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being."