The US Supreme Court Tuesday reversed a ruling in favor of a deaf student who filed suit against his school district for not providing him with proper interpreters. The court first heard oral arguments on the case, Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, on January 18. In its decision, the court found that, based on §1415(l) [...]

The US Department of State Monday released its annual report on human rights, addressing what it considers significant issues with and abuses of human rights in India. Included in these issues and abuses are unlawful and arbitrary killings, torture and degrading treatment by police and prison officials, harsh and severe prison conditions, restrictions on freedom [...]

The North Dakota Supreme Court Thursday upheld a preliminary injunction on the state’s abortion ban while litigation on the matter proceeds. The injunction stops enforcement of N.D.C. § 12.1-31-12, which went into effect after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June and found that there is no federal right to abortion in [...]

In an audit released Thursday, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli reported that the state housing project Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) must make greater efforts to aid low-income residents in finding affordable housing. According to the audit, HCR did not make full use of the $9.5 billion in financing it received during the five-year [...]

The Ohio Ballot Board Monday voted to move forward with a proposed ballot measure enshrining abortion rights in the state’s constitution. The measure would amend Article I of the Ohio Constitution by adding a section called, “The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety.” Now, abortion rights activists who are working to [...]

Protestors in France Saturday demonstrated for a seventh day against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plan, which has been widely disputed across the country since his announcement of the plan in January. According to the Confederation of Labor (CGT), a national federation of French trade unions, hundreds of thousands of employees, young people, and retirees [...]

US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan Friday ruled that “Access Hollywood” tapes of former President Donald Trump making vulgar comments toward women can be used in a civil defamation suit brought against him by journalist E. Jean Carroll for a series of derogatory comments he made toward her after she publicly accused him of sexual [...]

Republican members of the Florida State House and Senate Tuesday proposed parallel bills further restricting the abortion ban in the state from 15 weeks of pregnancy to six weeks of pregnancy. The bills provide that physicians cannot perform abortions after six weeks of fetal gestation, tightening the state’s already existing 15-week ban, which was approved [...]

The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR) Wednesday issued notices of violation to 28 municipalities in the state for civil rights violations committed through exclusionary marriage license practices against non-binary people. The notices allege that the municipalities in question violated the Law Against Discrimination (LAD) by requiring non-binary people applyling for marriage licenses to [...]

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Thursday filed suit in Louisiana federal court against ExxonMobil for unlawful employment practices based on racial discrimination. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, alleged that ExxonMobil violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after the corporation failed [...]