At the beginning of June, the White House signed onto a lawsuit that, if successful, would undo the Affordable Care Act’s pre-existing conditions provision. According to the Act, insurers are not permitted to charge different rates for people with pre-existing medical conditions. As noted by the Huffington Post, the lawsuit doesn’t hold much … [Read more...]
Trump Guts Federal Workers’ Protections
In recent months, the Trump administration has taken aim at workers’ rights, buttressing regressive Supreme Court decisions with an all-out attack on labor organizations and unionized federal employees. At the end of May, the President signed three executive orders that effectively gut protections for workers employed by the federal government. One … [Read more...]
Civil Case Allowed to Proceed Against Charlottesville White Supremacists
Charlottesville "Unite the Right" Rally (Photo Credit: Anthony Crider, Creative Commons 2.0) Unite the Right Rally Organizers Named in Class Action Suit A federal judge has ruled a lawsuit may proceed against dozens of organizers in last year’s violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, finding sufficient evidence … [Read more...]
California Bill Could Mitigate the Damaging Effects of Forced Arbitration
The US has seen, in recent years, the decline of unions and worker protections. This decline has come in a variety of forms, but perhaps most insidious is a phenomenon known as forced arbitration. Thanks to a little-known contractual clause, consumers and workers, alike, face severe obstacles to seeking justice after being wronged by businesses … [Read more...]
Sessions Petitions Supreme Court to Narrow Nationwide Sanctuary Cities Injunction
While we await the Supreme Court’s imminent travel ban decision in Trump v Hawaii, due to be handed down before the Court’s term ends on June 30—a decision expected to uphold Trump’s executive privilege to enforce the ban--sanctuary city rulings have been a bright spot for immigrants and states righters protecting their undocumented immigrants … [Read more...]
Arkansas Supreme Court Temporarily Reinstates Voter ID Law
The Arkansas Supreme Court has temporarily stayed a lower court’s injunction of the state’s Voter ID law while the appeals process is underway. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Alice Gray overturned the restrictive voting measure last month, arguing that the law went beyond the scope of the state’s constitution. Barry Haas, who brought the initial … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Involving Class-Action Question
The US Supreme Court is set to hear a privacy case involving an $8.5 million settlement with Google. A lawsuit filed in San Francisco in 2010 claimed that Google shared search terms with other websites, in direct violation of users’ privacy rights. The settlement, approved by the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals, divided the total sum of money … [Read more...]
Oklahoma Supreme Court Upholds Voter ID Law, Amid Trump “Voter Fraud” Allegations
Donald Trump’s spurious claims that voter fraud robbed him of the 2016 popular vote have incited courts in conservative states to uphold Photo ID laws aimed at preventing those most likely to vote ‘Democratic’ from exercising their right to suffrage during the midterms and in the 2020 Presidential election. Supporters say restrictive voting laws … [Read more...]
Gig Workers Win Big in California Supreme Court Ruling
The California Supreme Court set its sights on the gig-economy last month, when Justices issued a unanimous ruling requiring companies using contract labor to prove that their independent contractors actually run their own business. All seven of the Justices joined the majority opinion written by Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, who took aim at … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Foreign Corporations
The Supreme Court ruled last week that foreign corporations may not be sued for human rights violations in another country. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion for the plurality, arguing that Congress would have to weigh-in before claims could be brought. The question before the court boiled down to the following: can foreign corporations be … [Read more...]
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