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Pain Relief Advocate Pays High Price For Free Speech (09/03/2009)
TOPEKA, KS – A federal court in Topeka, Kansas today imposed a $200 per day fine upon nationally renowned pain relief activist Siobhan Reynolds for her refusal to comply with a pair of subpoenas secured in an effort to chill her constitutionally protected speech, as well as an additional $200 per day fine upon her advocacy organization, the Pain Relief Network (PRN). Reynolds, who is President of PRN, has been an outspoken advocate for sufferers of chronic pain and physicians’ ability to provide appropriate pain management treatment without risk of criminal prosecution. The subpoenas are part of an ongoing grand jury investigation related to the federal prosecution of Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda, who operated a medical practice specializing in pain relief and whose prosecution Reynolds has publicly condemned. Reynolds is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union in the case.

ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Latest Effort To Eradicate Equal Opportunity In Missouri (08/14/2009)
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri today filed a lawsuit challenging the latest attempt by a political operative to rewrite Missouri's state constitution to ban equal opportunity programs in the state.

ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging Latest Effort To Eradicate Equal Opportunity In Missouri (08/14/2009)
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri today filed a lawsuit challenging the latest attempt by a political operative to rewrite Missouri's state constitution to ban equal opportunity programs in the state.

Missouri Judge Strikes Down Attempted Ban On Equal Opportunity Programs (06/27/2009)
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – A Missouri circuit court judge late Friday struck down a proposed ballot initiative aimed at amending the state's constitution to outlaw equal opportunity programs in the state. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit last December charging that an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative proposed by Timothy Asher and the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative should not be circulated for signatures because it violates the Missouri Constitution by seeking to trick and defraud the state's voters in attempting to ban an array of equal opportunity programs.

ACLU Asks Court To Block Government’s Unconstitutional Attempt To Silence Pain Relief Advocate (05/07/2009)
TOPEKA, KS – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a motion to quash a pair of subpoenas that were issued to nationally renowned pain relief advocate Siobhan Reynolds in an effort to chill her constitutionally protected speech supporting physicians’ ability to provide appropriate pain management treatment without risk of criminal prosecution. The subpoenas are part of an ongoing grand jury investigation related to the federal prosecution of Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife Linda, who operated a medical practice specializing in pain relief, and whose prosecution Reynolds has publicly condemned.