Vermont Governor Phil Scott Monday signed into law a bill requiring all police in the state to wear body cameras and prohibiting the use of chokeholds. The bipartisan legislation passed unanimously by the state’s General Assembly makes illegal “the use of any maneuver on a person that applies pressure to the neck, throat, windpipe, or carotid [...]

Judge James E. Boasberg, of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, denied an emergency motion by Dakota Access, LLC on Tuesday to stay his July 6 order directing the company to empty the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) within 30-days. Since July 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes, along [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a number of Republican-authored voting restrictions in Wisconsin on Monday, reversing several lower court decisions. Judge Easterbrook explained in the opinion, in which Judges Kanne and Sykes joined, that the district court incorrectly held that the laws produced a disparate impact on [...]

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overturned a 2016 decision on Tuesday that required employers to bargain with a newly certified union before the employer imposes “serious discipline” in the absence of a first contract. The case involved a group of workers at a rehabilitation and nursing care facility who were suspended, and one worker [...]

An African-American Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter filed a discrimination claim against her employer on Tuesday alleging that she was prevented “from covering major stories involving race based protests and demonstrations because of her race.” Alexis Johnson, represented by employment law attorney Samuel Cordes, filed claims in federal court after the local newspaper removed Johnson from covering [...]

At least 20 were killed late on Monday in a territorial dispute turned violent between Chinese and Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley, a long disputed border-region between the two countries. The skirmish comes weeks after a steady build-up of troops on both sides in the disputed Aksai Chin-Ladakh area in the Himalayan Mountains. Indian [...]

The US Supreme court declined on Monday to hear 10 cases seeking to overturn restrictions on gun ownership, disappointing some conservative critics. The 10 cases, spanning six circuits, five states and the District of Columbia, all sought to expand gun owners’ rights under the Second Amendment. The denial may signal a reluctance by the conservative [...]

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday proposed a record $225 million fine against a Houston, Texas-based health insurance telemarketing company for apparently making approximately 1 billion illegally spoofed robocalls. The record-breaking fine represents the largest fine in the FCC’s 86-year history and reflects “the seriousness of the apparent violations by John C. Spiller [...]

The California Department of Public Health, along with the State Department of Industrial Relations, released industry guidance on Monday for the reopening of places of worship and providers of religious services and cultural ceremonies. The 13-page document outlines protections that places of worship should implement if they choose to resume in-person activity. Attendance at places [...]

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced on Thursday that the US will be submitting notice of its withdrawal from the Treaty on Open Skies on Friday, May 22, 2020. Secretary Pompeo noted reasons for the US withdraw were that Russia “has undermined central confidence-building function of the Treaty – and has, in fact, fueled [...]