When the district attorney of a rural California county announced local hospitals would begin selective screening of newborns for exposure to controlled substances -- and test results could be used to prosecute new mothers for illegal drug use -- healthcare workers and activists reacted with sharp criticism.

Citizens who speak out on public issues are increasingly being sued by corporations, individuals and government agencies whose economic interests are at stake. This report tells the story of two activists who were sued for $42 million by a California sanitation district for opposing development and waste-management projects they believed would be harmful to the environment.

Each year, an estimated 5,000 women spend their pregnancies behind bars in U.S. prisons and jails. Packed into routinely overcrowded, understaffed and ill-equipped facilities, pregnant inmates are often denied essential pre-natal and emergency care -- despite the Constitutional requirement that prisons and jails provide 'adequate' medical care for all prisoners.

Fred Korematsu won an unprecedented ruling by a federal district judge that the U.S. government erred in interning Japanese-Americans in camps during WWII.