Produced by:
KBOO
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Air date:
Tue, 08/09/2016 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Rare legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, and the right to dissent
Today on Law and Disorder, Chad Nicholson with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and Stacy Long with the Pennsylvania Community Rights Network explain the legal struggle around an ordinance passed in Grant Township, PA that legalizes direct action to stop fracking wastewater injection wells. Then, ACLU Voting Rights Project staff attourney Julie Ebenstein discusses a federal court's invalidation of voting restrictions enacted in North Carolina. Finally, Vancouver, BC attourney Marilyn Sandford talks about a case involving a Canadian couple who a judge ruled were entrapped by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police sting.