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Craigslist has provided people on all sides of prostitution -- solo prostitutes, pimps, law enforcement, and customers -- a clearinghouse to advertise and connect. Attorneys General from across ...
Chicago Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law v. Craigslist, 519 F.3d 666 (7th Cir. 2008), [1] is a Seventh Circuit decision affirming a lower court ruling that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) provides immunity to Internet service providers that "publish" classified ads that violate the Fair Housing Act (FHA). [1]
Historically, civil legal aid in the United States began in New York with the founding of the Legal Aid Society of New York in 1876. [29] In 2017, New York City became the first place in the US to guarantee legal services to all tenants facing eviction with the passage of the "Right to Counsel Law".
In 2006, the Committee filed suit against craigslist, Inc., the owner of craigslist.org. They alleged that craigslist, Inc. was in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act because it allowed people to post discriminatory ads. [4] The case was decided in favor of craigslist, and in 2008, in Chicago Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law v.
The Bostonian Society maintained a library and museum inside the Old State House. The Bostonian Society was a non-profit organization that was founded in 1881 for the purpose of preventing the Old State House (built in 1713) from being "moved brick by brick" [1] from Boston, Massachusetts to Chicago, Illinois.
It is located on the second floor of the Congregational House at 14 Beacon Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The Library was founded in 1853 by a gathering of Congregational ministers [ 2 ] and has since evolved into a professional library and archives that holds more than 250,000 items, predominantly focused on ...
Trade sign used at the Boston headquarters of the New England Emigrant Aid Company [1] Document related to the N.E. Emigrant Aid Company, 1857. The New England Emigrant Aid Company [n 1] (originally the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company [4]) was a transportation company founded in Boston, Massachusetts [5] by activist Eli Thayer in the wake of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed the ...
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