The Delaware Court of Chancery issued a ruling on Friday holding that the property tax system in all three Delaware counties is unconstitutional. In a suit filed two years ago, two plaintiffs, Delawareans for Educational Opportunity and the NAACP State Conference for Branches, claimed that public schools across the state failed to provide adequate education [...]
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested Gregory and Travis McMichael on Thursday for the February 23 murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The arrest came days after the surface of a video showing the shooting. The video depicts Arbery, a 25-year old black man, jogging when a white truck stops in front of him. The video shows [...]
The 112-year-old, Dallas-based luxury retailer Nieman Marcus Group filed for bankruptcy Thursday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston. At the time of filing, Nieman Marcus said it has “funded-debt obligations of approximately $5.5 billion.” The filing stated that the need for bankruptcy comes in the “face of unprecedented [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) requested on Thursday that the Supreme Court block the release of grand jury documents associated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. In its application for a stay, the DOJ said that without the Supreme Court’s grant of a stay, “the government will [...]
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the US military can construct a base in Okinawa, Japan, despite environmental activists’ concerns over the base’s construction threatening the local dugong population. The activists filed suit under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). A panel of federal judges heard the case. The panel concluded that the base’s [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped its charges Thursday against Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, for falsifying statements to the FBI. The DOJ dropped the case after determining that Flynn’s statements were not “‘material’ to the underlying investigation.” Flynn made the statements during the FBI’s investigation of Russian [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously overturned the convictions of two former New Jersey politicians involved in the 2013 scheme to create a traffic-jam along the one of the nation’s busiest bridges, ultimately known as “Bridgegate.” Former Chief of Staff for Governor Chris Christie, Bridget Anne Kelly, and former Deputy Executive Director for the [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously vacated the Ninth Circuit’s decision in United States v. Sineneng-Smith, a case concerning a statute that criminalizes encouraging illegal immigration for financial gain. In 2010 a grand jury indicted Evelyn Sineneng-Smith for multiple violations of 8 USC § 1324. The law makes it a felony to “encourag or [...]
US President Donald Trump vetoed senate Joint Resolution 68, commonly known as the Iran War Powers resolution, on Wednesday. The resolution came in response to the assassination of Qassem Soleimani in early January. In a statement released by the White House, Trump called the resolution “insulting” and characterized it as a political attack by Congressional [...]
The US Department of Education issued final regulations on Wednesday impacting the ways in which schools covered under Title IX respond to incidents involving alleged sexual abuse and misconduct. The regulations significantly narrow the definition of sexual assault, require that all schools respond “promptly and supportively” to alleged victims of sexual harassment, and provide requirements [...]
