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Fund for Empowerment v. Phoenix, City of
Fund for Empowerment is a challenge to the City of Phoenix鈥檚 practice of conducting sweeps of encampments without notice, issuing citations to unsheltered people for camping and sleeping on public property when they have no place else to go, and confiscating and destroying their property without notice or process.
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Jarrar v. Harris, et al.
In August 2007, the ACLU and NYCLU filed a federal civil rights lawsuit charging that a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) official and JetBlue Airways illegally discriminated against an American resident, Raed Jarrar, based solely on the Arabic message on his t-shirt and his ethnicity.
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Jarrar v. Harris, et al.
In August 2007, the ACLU and NYCLU filed a federal civil rights lawsuit charging that a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) official and JetBlue Airways illegally discriminated against an American resident, Raed Jarrar, based solely on the Arabic message on his t-shirt and his ethnicity.