The New York Times reports four more states will vote on recreational or medical marijuana use this upcoming voting day. If the amendments are passed, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, and Utah will join 30 other states that have legalized the drug in some form. These four states are all proposing separate legislation that will affect marijuana … [Read more...]
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Patient Advocate Groups Suing Trump Administration Following Health Plan Changes
Patient and advocacy groups are suing the Trump administration following a decision to extend the availability of short-term health plans. The change is one of many being made by President Trump in an attempt to limit the effectiveness of ObamaCare. This and other recent decisions made by President Trump are likely to significantly impact health … [Read more...]
How State Gun Laws Have Changed Since the Las Vegas Shooting
Following 2017 shootings like those in Las Vegas and Parkland, Florida, Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich formed a panel that would reexamine state gun laws across America. The panel was designed to be bipartisan in an attempt to produce legislation that would satisfy both Republicans and Democrats. Ultimately, the legislative … [Read more...]
Attorney General Defends Texas School Following Student’s Pledge of Allegiance Protest
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has become involved in a Houston lawsuit between Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District and 18-year-old former student India Landry, following a judge’s decision not to dismiss the case. On Monday morning, Landry was in the principal’s office when the student body began its daily recitation of the Pledge … [Read more...]
Coal Ash Spill Brings Attention to Trump Administration’s EPA Deregulations
On September 14th, Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina. Flooding related to the storm caused damage to the state’s infrastructure, including a pond owned by Duke Energy Corporation used to store coal ash. The spill is likely to have significant and lasting effects on the surrounding environment, and environmental advocacy groups are … [Read more...]
Another Priest Serving Utah’s Diocese Accused of Sexual Abuse
Bringing Total Number of Sexually Abused to 16 Further accusations against Utah’s Catholic Diocese were made public recently, revealing a sixteenth abuser who served since the 1990’s. Father Jorge Martinez-Gomez was placed on leave in early July after the church received an “allegation of misconduct” involving a man. Although his parish was … [Read more...]
Sexual Abuse in Nursing Homes
In 2015, George Kpingbah pled guilty to third degree criminal sexual assault with a mentally impaired or helpless victim. Kpingbah was a nursing assistant at the Walker Methodist Health Center in 2014 when another caregiver witnessed him raping 83-year-old Sonja Fischer in her room. This particular case was the first time Kpingbah was caught, … [Read more...]
Colorado Catholic Priest Implicated in Sexual Abuse Report
Stephen Edward Jeselnick, a former Pennsylvania Catholic Priest, was accused of child sexual abuse by a grand jury in August. The jury’s findings were the result of a two-year investigation which uncovered not only the abuse committed by Jeselnick, but also the abuse of over a thousand other children across six Catholic Dioceses. Delayed Abuse … [Read more...]
JPMorgan Pays $24 Million to Settle Out of Discrimination Lawsuit
More than 250 current and past employees of JPMorgan Chase & Co. will be paid a total of $19.5 million by their former employer as part of a settlement to a class action discrimination lawsuit. The six members of the class say the bank hindered both their success and the success of other African-American advisers by purposefully assigning … [Read more...]
