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A group of former and current Twitter employees Thursday filed a class action lawsuit in the San Francisco Division of the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit comes amid widespread layoffs at the company, spearheaded by new CEO Elon Musk. Musk acquired the company after completing a deal Oct. 27 [...]

A US federal judge ruled Monday that Georgia’s anti-BDS law, which prohibits state contractors from boycotting Israel, violates the First Amendment and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Abby Martin won her suit against the University System of Georgia after Georgia Southern University (GSU) representatives revoked Martin’s invitation to speak at the 2020 [...]

A Tennessee private security company recruiting military veterans to ‘protect’ polls in Minnesota will face new restrictions as part of a settlement with local civic engagement organizations. Two weeks before the November 3 election, The League of Women Voters Minnesota (LWVMN) and the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) filed a lawsuit [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A coalition of international legal advocates sent a joint letter Saturday to Professor Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, condemning the growing trend of government officials intimidating and endangering the legal representatives of politically controversial clients. They also called for greater protections to be granted to advocates, the [...]

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Michigan chapter (CAIR-MI) filed a lawsuit Monday against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) for making Muslim and Moorish Science women remove their hijabs for mugshots. Photographs of the women without their hijabs are posted on MDOC’s public website. DOC ID cards also display the mugshots. The “Muslim and Moorish [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland ordered Friday that non-citizens held in immigrant detention centers must be provided fair hearings and the government must prove if an immigrant is a flight risk. Consistent with the Trump administration’s orders, immigrants, even asylum seekers, were being held without bond, despite never having [...]

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on Congress on Wednesday to investigate why the US government disclosed the names and information of people on the terrorist watch list with private entities. Until now, the US had denied that the list, developed and maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), was shared with other organizations like universities or [...]

A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order requiring a Washington correctional facility to provide four inmates with nutritional diets for the remainder of Ramadan, the holy month in which Muslims abstain from eating or drinking between dawn and sunset. The temporary order was necessary due to the immediacy of the concern. The inmates had [...]

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Wednesday filed suit on behalf of Muslim American Raja'ee Fatihah, who was denied service at an Oklahoma gun range last year. CAIR, along with the American Civil Liberties...

A federal judge has dismissed a discrimination lawsuit filed against a gun store owner that deemed his store a "Muslim Free Zone." Judge Beth Bloom of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida [official...