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...]
California Signs Law To Reinstate Net Neutrality
California Governor Jerry Brown late on Sunday signed legislation to restore open internet protections known as net neutrality in the state after the Trump administration repealed the rules late last year. According to Reuters, the bill sets up a clash with the Federal Communications Commission, which said in repealing the Obama-era rules that … [Read more...]
Cannabis Credit Unions Curb Cash Carrying
A Safer Alternative to Carrying Giant Duffle Bags Full of Cash The visibility that banks provide and the reports they’re required to file are two of the few windows the government has into cannabis business operations, says John Vardaman, a former Justice Department attorney under President Obama, who helped draft guidance for financial crimes due … [Read more...]
HHS Launches Investigation into Fetal Tissue Research
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is an agency of the federal government tasked with protecting the health of the citizens of the United States. It was created in the 1940s as the Federal Security Agency, and, after going through multiple name and responsibility changes, became the Department of Health and Human … [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...]
Uber Agrees To Pay $148 Million To Settle Data Breach
According to Automotive News, Uber was hit with the biggest data-breach payout in history. Iowa’s attorney general said Uber Technologies must pay $148 million to settle claims related to a data breach that exposed personal information for more than 25 million users in the US. The states’ agreement stemmed from data compromised in 2016, when … [Read more...]
Are Social Media Sites Censoring Conservatives? The President Says Yes – Without Evidence.
These days, our public square is largely a digital space. The man ranting in the public commons while standing on a soap box is now tweeting, for better or worse. We hold most of our debates on our digital forums. This presents challenges our society is still grappling with. After all, these digital spaces aren't really public squares – they're … [Read more...]
Is the Foster System Falling Short on Monitoring Meds?
According to a report in childrensrights.org, there are approximately 438,000 children in foster care in the United States on any given day. In 2016, more than 687,000 children spent time in the American foster care system, and statistics indicate that on average, children remain in foster care for nearly two years before being adopted or “aging … [Read more...]
Judge Restores Federal Protections for Yellowstone Grizzly Bears
On Sept. 24, a federal judge restored federal legal protections for grizzly bears of Yellowstone National Park. The judge ruled that the grizzlies could become extinct due to inbreeding and lack of genetic diversity. "By refusing to analyze the legal and functional impact of delisting on other continental grizzly populations, the service … [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...]
Stop Surprise Medical Bills, Say Senators
Many of us have felt shock and dismay at opening a medical bill we thought our health insurance had covered only to discover that we owe an outstanding balance. Often, the amount still due is beyond anything we can manage to comfortably pay. Surprise medical bills appear in American mailboxes and email every day and usually include a list of … [Read more...]
The Missing Language from Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy Plan
A New Draft of the Affordable Clean Energy Plan Notably Omits Any Mention of Climate Change Will climate change simply go away if it’s ignored? The Trump Administration sure seems to think so. For almost a year now, the White House has been aggressively dismantling Obama-era environmental regulations, often with questionable justifications for … [Read more...]
Trump Delays Release of Russia Probe Documents
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said documents from the federal Russia probe would not immediately be released. Just days after he ordered them to be made public, Trump cited concerns by the U.S. Justice Department. Trump tweeting that the inspector general would review the documents “on an expedited basis”. Trump had called for the … [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...]
Trump Weakens Methane Rules
Oil Companies Promote Cost-Effective Regulations and Innovative Solutions EPA posted a new rule on its website, dramatically weakening restrictions on methane displaced when oil drilling equipment used in fracking displaces methane from underground drilling sites so hundreds of thousands of additional tons spew into the atmosphere. When methane … [Read more...]
3D Gun Printing Activist Accused of Sex with Underage Girl
(CNN)The creator of the world's first fully printed 3D gun has been charged with sexual assault on a child in Texas, the Austin Police Department said Wednesday. Cody Wilson, 30, had sex with 16-year-old girl he met on an adult dating site, Austin Police Cmdr. said Wednesday at a news conference. Wilson is the founder of Defense Distributed, … [Read more...]
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