PHOENIX, Arizona, Oct. 4 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * - The lawsuit, Puente v. Phoenix, was filed following President Trump's visit to downtown Phoenix in August 2017 and the Phoenix Police Department's violation of First Amendment Rights * * * District Judge John J. Tuchi has issued an order certifying two separate classes in Puente v. Phoenix. The group of plaintiffs in the lawsuit, including two community organizations and four   more

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, Oct. 4 -- The Alliance Defending Freedom issued the following statement by Senior Counsel Jeremy Tedesco: Tedesco reacted to the Minnesota attorney general's decision to pursue filmmakers Carl and Angel Larsen in federal district court rather than appeal an August U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit decision against the state in Telescope Media Group v. Lucero: "Carl and Angel won a great free speech victory at the 8th Circuit, which rightly affirmed that the governm  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Oct. 3 -- The American Civil Liberties Union, a 501(c)3 non-profit that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: The American Civil Liberties Union and partners filed a federal lawsuit today seeking damages on behalf of thousands of traumatized children and parents who were forcibly torn from each other under the Trump administration's illegal practice of separating f  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Oct. 2 -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued the following news release: The Medicare in the Sanders Medicare-for-All bill is not the same program that retirees were taxed for their entire working lives, states the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). In fact, it abolishes the current program and forces everyone, including seniors, into a new universal program that most resembles the Canadian system also called "medicare." Incidentall  more

PRESCOTT, Arizona, Oct. 3 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: Three environmental groups launched a legal battle this week to force the required examination of climate change science in the federal management of Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River. Save The Colorado, Center for Biological Diversity and Living Rivers filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Prescott, Arizona, asserting that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of the Interi  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Oct. 2 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release: * * * - PETA Launches Campaign to Save Individuals From Dying in Parked Cars * * * Even though fall is upon us, temperatures are still dangerously high in parts of the country, including Phoenix, where a 4-month-old baby reportedly died yesterday after being left in a hot car. This year, at least 48 children and 37 dogs and cats have died after being left in hot vehicles across the coun  more

TEMPE, Arizona, Oct. 2 -- The Institute for Supply Management issued the following news release: Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in September, and the overall economy grew for the 125th consecutive month, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM(R) Report On Business(R). The report was issued today by Timothy R. Fiore, CPSM, C.P.M., Chair of the Institute for Supply Management(R) (ISM(R)) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee: "The September  more

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, Oct. 3 -- The Entertainment Industry Foundation's Stand Up To Cancer issued the following news release: Adding a drug that targets a molecular vulnerability in pancreatic cancer could provide substantial benefit to patients, according to a clinical trial study by the HonorHealth Research Institute and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, in conjunction with the Pancreatic Cancer Research Team and Cancer Research And Biostatisti  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 1 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release: * * * - Order modified to exempt personal fuelwood from injunction * * * Today, the Federal District Court Judge overseeing the recent case involving national forest logging and the Mexican spotted owl, granted WildEarth Guardians' emergency motion to exempt personal fuelwood cutting and gathering from the injunction halting all "timber management activities" on all national forests in New Mexico and one i  more