The Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and fast-food workers coalition Fight for $15 filed 23 complaints against McDonald’s Tuesday centering around incidents of harassment, abuse and retaliation against employees of the fast-food giant. Of the 23 complaints, 20 were filed with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), while the remaining three [...]
The Texas House on Monday approvedSB 1978, “relating to the protection of membership in, affiliation with, and support provided to religious organizations.” The bill was proposed to the Senate three months after the San Antonio city Council voted to ban Chick-fil-A from the airport due to anti-LGBTQ statements and actions. The proposed bill seeks to [...]
US air strikes are resulting in civilian casualties in Somalia, Amnesty International reported Wednesday. The report details five incidents resulting in 14 civilian casualties, with eight more civilians injured within the past two years. These issues began to draw increased international humanitarian attention during Barack Obama’s administration. In October 2016 the administration “broadened the president’s [...]
The Deputy Secretary of Defense released a memorandum Tuesday announcing the implementation of Trump’s policy barring most transgender people from serving in the military. This announcement comes after a federal court lifted a preliminary injunction that was preventing the ban’s enforcement. The policy, as outlined in the memo, details the process which transgender persons must [...]
In a report released on Wednesday, Amnesty International stated that European governments, by prioritizing border control, are complicit in “the systematic, unlawful and frequently violent pushbacks” against asylum seekers. The report details the abuse asylum seekers face at the hands of Croatian police and the squalid conditions in the refugee camps. In addition, the bureaucratic [...]
Lambda Legal and the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of current and former North Carolina state employees, alleging discrimination against transgender persons enrolled in health care coverage. The plaintiffs argue that because treatment of gender dysphoria is categorically excluded from the health care coverage, the defendants “deny [...]
The UK High Court ruled Wednesday that the government’s Guidance on Fracking is unlawful. Ruling in favor of Talk Fracking, an environmental group, Justice Dove held that it was unlawful for the government not to take scientific evidence and material into account when creating its guidance. Dove stated that the scientific evidence were ‘materially relevant [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, LLC that once a copyright is registered, the owner can recover retroactively for infringement. The Copyright Act of 1976 enabled an owner to have rights over their material, but they were unable to recover for infringements prior to registration of the [...]
Voters in Toledo, Ohio, on Tuesday approved an amendment to the city charter giving Lake Erie legal rights. This charter amendment would allow any resident of Toledo to sue on behalf of the Lake. Lake Erie is a source of water for an estimated 11 million US and Canadian citizens. As recently as 2014 the [...]
More civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2018 than in any other year on record, according to a report published Sunday by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). UNAMA reported 3,804 deaths—an 11 percent increase from 2017. According to the report, the greatest cause of civilian casualties is suicide bombers, coupled with additional attacks [...]
