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A nationwide group of 17 state domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions, led by the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV), filed a lawsuit today seeking to stop the Trump administration from imposing unlawful restrictions on grants

The lawsuit argues that RIDOC has refused to accommodate an array of religious practices that Native Americans are routinely allowed to practice in federal and state prisons across the country.

Four arts and theater organizations filed an amended complaint today in federal court in Rhode Island in their First Amendment lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

The ACLU of Rhode Island announced today the favorable settlement of a lawsuit that challenged the R.I. Department of Corrections’ (RIDOC) restrictive policies governing the religious freedom of people incarcerated at the ACI

Though court agreed that NEA funding bar for projects that promote “gender ideology” would likely violate the First Amendment, court refused to expressly block the NEA from reimposing that bar

Changes to NEA policy in response to ACLU lawsuit do not solve the problems for arts organizations or deprive court of jurisdiction, attorneys argue

Artists no longer need to attest that they will not “promote gender ideology” to apply and the NEA’s funding bar will be decided by the Court

Artists and theater groups have today filed a lawsuit challenging a new certification requirement for National Endowment for the Arts’ grants that requires applicants to attest that they will not “promote gender ideology” in order to be eligible for funding

A lawsuit filed today by attorneys for the RWU Prisoners’ Rights Clinic and the ACLU of RI challenges the R.I. Department of Corrections’ restrictive policies governing the religious freedom of Muslims incarcerated at the ACI, including significant constraints on their ability to observe Ramadan