The ACLU has petitioned a Florida appeals court to intervene in Lee County’s foreclosure court system, claiming it “rushes cases toward summary judgment or trial without giving homeowners a meaningful opportunity to develop their cases or present defenses.”

In a brief order, the Ninth Circuit judge says he can and will be impartial despite his wife’s role at the ACLU.

A California man known for his anger over left-leaning politics said after a freeway shootout with California Highway Patrol officers that he had been planning an attack on the ACLU and another nonprofit group, police said Tuesday. Byron Williams, a parolee with two bank robbery convictions, wanted to “start a revolution” by killing people at the American Civil Liberties Union and Tides Foundation, Oakland police said in court documents.

The CIA may exempt from Freedom of Information Act disclosure materials that reveal intelligence sources and methods, even though they relate to the secret detention and interrogation program deemed illegal by the Obama administration in 2009, a New York federal judge has ruled, rejecting a claim by the ACLU and other plaintiffs. The ruling was the latest in a series in the six-year-old FOIA litigation on materials relating to the treatment of prisoners and rendition of detainees to countries that practice torture.

A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction barring northeastern Pennsylvania prosecutors from filing charges against several teenage girls in connection with racy cell phone photos. Judge James Munley issued the order Friday after the Wyoming County district attorney said he had no plans to file charges against three girls who filed a federal lawsuit last year over the matter. The girls and their parents, represented by the ACLU, said the photos were not pornographic and the girls did not send or receive them.