Category Archives: Constitution

“The result of this ruling is to deprive taxpayers of a remedy for legislative misconduct which costs each of us real money.” As Executive Director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, I am constantly explaining that a relatively small percentage of our cases account for…
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This is a pop quiz. What organization brought the following lawsuits?
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Civil libertarians – who find political correctness as offensive as state-sponsored censorship – can frequently be heard to express the opinion that there is, after all, no constitutional right not to be offended. There are all sorts of annoyances that we can and must put up with as the price…
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Recently the Indiana Civil Liberties Union brought a suit challenging the constitutionality of Indiana’s property tax assessment formula. We did so because we believe it violates federal constitutional guarantees of equal protection as well as provisions of the Indiana Constitution.
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I have this recurring fantasy: a caveman discovers that he can produce drawings of the animals he hunts on the walls of his cave. Excited by the possibilities of his art, energized by the creative act, he produces a drawing–only to have it rubbed angrily off the cave wall by someone in his tribe who declares that the depiction of animal…
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