NYPD Hauled to Court on Fare-Evasion Arrest Data
After the New York City Council took measures to ensure there is no racial bias in subway arrests for fare evasion, a new lawsuit claims the NYPD is refusing to disclose telltale numbers.
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World Court Opens Preliminary Probe Into Rohingya Expulsions
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor announced Tuesday that she is launching a preliminary investigation into deportations of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar into Bangladesh.
Read moreUnsealed Ross Memo Contradicts Testimony to Congress
Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Congress earlier this year that he added a citizenship question to the 2020 census to help the Department of Justice enforce the Voting Rights Act.
Read moreCargill Class Action
Cargill Meat Solutions will pay $1.5 million to settle charges of discriminating against African and Muslim employees, the EEOC announced Friday.
Read moreFourth Circuit Advances Challenge to Mobile Home Park’s Citizenship Policy
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday said Latino residents of a Virginia mobile home park can proceed with a lawsuit challenging a park policy of requiring them to prove they’re legal U.S. residents before they can move in.
Read moreEmployment
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought a federal complaint Thursday against sued Porous Materials Inc., on behalf of a black worker whose manager told her “that her husband should be working in a cotton field with a rope around his neck,” as well as for other women whom the manager routinely called “bitches.”
Read moreTennessee Searches for Justice in Cold Civil Rights Cases
Seventy-eight years after Elbert Williams was murdered as he tried to register black voters in Western Tennessee, a district attorney has reopened the case. Williams was the first member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to die for his civil rights work.
Read moreChallenge to Texas Judicial Elections Shot Down
Republican dominance in Texas elections explains why only two of 18 judges on the state’s highest courts are Latino, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, dismissing a Voting Rights Act lawsuit brought by Hispanic voters.
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In a federal class action, a Dallas man accuses the U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration of discriminating against white people.
Read moreJudge to Consider Recusal for TV Comments on Shooting
The Pennsylvania judge presiding over a police-shooting case agreed to hold a hearing next week on whether a cable news interview he gave after the shooting requires him to recuse himself.
Read moreAttorneys in Texas Apartment Shooting Dispute Cop’s Story
Attorneys for the family of an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a white Dallas cop who mistook his apartment for her own disputed Tuesday her claims that his door was ajar, citing witnesses who say they heard a female voice commanding the door be opened.
Read moreDallas Cop to Be Charged in Fatal Apartment Mix-Up
Dallas police said Friday afternoon that an off-duty white female cop who mistook another apartment for her own will face manslaughter charges for shooting and killing the black man inside.
Read moreEven Happy, Liberal Sweden Sees Rise of Nationalism
It’s Sweden’s turn to reckon with the rise of nationalist, anti-immigrant and anti-European Union sentiment sweeping across Europe. Swedes vote Sunday in national elections and polls show the Sweden Democrats — a right-wing anti-EU party with roots in the neo-Nazi movement — will make significant gains and possibly become the nation’s largest party.
Read moreNFL Must Face Arbitration on Kaepernick Collusion Claims
An arbitrator advanced claims Thursday that all 32 NFL team owners colluded against quarterback Colin Kaepernick because he takes a knee during the national anthem to protest social injustice.
Read moreAsian-Americans Get US Backing in Harvard Bias Case
In a case set to be the nation’s next big test on affirmative action, the Department of Justice urged a federal judge Thursday to side with Asian-American students accusing Harvard of discrimination.
Read more‘Empire’ Copyright Battle Unravels at 3rd Circuit
Finding only a shared premise between the hit series “Empire” and a struggling actor’s screenplay, the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of copyright claims against writer-director Lee Daniels.
Read moreMartin Luther King III Commemorates Father’s Dream at US-Mexico Border
On the 55th anniversary of his father’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King III made a “call to conscience” at the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday to reunite all families separated under the “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
Read moreTexas Officer Guilty in Killing of Unarmed Black Teen
A Dallas County jury convicted a fired white police officer of murder Tuesday for firing his rifle five times into a car and killing unarmed, black 15-year-old Jordan Edwards.
Read moreJudge Allows Straight-Party Voting in Michigan
A federal judge has denied Michigan’s emergency motion to prevent voters from casting straight-ticket ballots that allow them to choose all of one party’s candidates on a single bubble.
Read moreJudge Tosses Claims of Bias Against White Texas Voters
A federal judge in Texas threw out a closely followed lawsuit Thursday accusing Dallas County of drawing voter district lines to dilute the influence of white voters.
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