Jerry Brown just made it more difficult for Californians to get permits to carry concealed weapons by signing a “bill that sets tougher standards for Californians to get a county sheriff’s permit to carry a concealed weapon.” The new measure, Assembly Bill 2103 introduced by Assemblyman Todd Gloria (D-San Diego), requires all concealed carry … [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...]
Potential Supreme Court Case Could Have Huge Impact on Gender-Based Wage Gap
If you've applied for a job recently, there's a good chance you had to fill out an extensive salary history. It's not at all unusual for companies to require applicants to provide their salaries at several – or even all – of their past jobs. In public sector jobs, wages and benefits are easily accessible – either through record requests or … [Read more...]
Google, Big Data and Civil Liberties
We live in an inter-connected world – hundreds of millions of Americans own smartphones, which provide a staggering level of technology, connectivity and access to the wider world in a device the size of your hand. However, this revolution in digital technology has taken place within an analog legal framework, one constructed over centuries long … [Read more...]
Bail Hearings Must Be Open, Says Lawsuit in Dallas County
In courtrooms all over the country, bail hearings are open to the public, but that is not the case in Dallas County, Texas where a class action lawsuit has been filed, and a district court judge has been compelled to order the release of video footage of some of the court’s past bail hearings. The idea of having a bail hearing in open court is … [Read more...]
Lawsuit Over Senior Living Harassment Claims Reinstated
A woman who was threatened, verbally assaulted, and physically assaulted at Glen St. Andrew Living Community outside of Chicago in Niles, Illinois has had her lawsuit against the facility reinstated after 7th Circuit Judge Diane Wood disagreed with contentions from the senior center and its management team that a landlord isn’t liable under the … [Read more...]
Trump Administration Seeks To Make It Easier To Detain Migrant Children
The Trump administration plans to make it easier to detain minors during immigration proceedings. The US said it will withdraw from a federal court agreement that limits authorities' ability to detain children. Reuters reports the administration released the regulation on Thursday. It will allow the government to detain children in facilities … [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...]
Hispanics Being Accused of False Birth Certificates
Unlike Caucasian Americans, Hispanics living on American soil face many challenges today. One challenge that may surprise you is having to face accusations that their birth certificates were falsified. Unfortunately, this is not new. In fact, accusing Hispanics of having falsified birth records has been going on since the George W. Bush … [Read more...]
Lesbian’s Landlord Likely Liable in Tenant Taunting
https://youtu.be/d8qd7-pq0E8?rel=0 Court of Appeals Sends Discrimination Suit Against Senior Living Facility Back to District Court Back in 1968, just one week after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated; President Lyndon Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act into law. In its original form, the Fair Housing Act outlawed discrimination based on … [Read more...]
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