A group of women filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia alleging gender discrimination in the FBI training academy. The complaint contends that the FBI’s employment and evaluation techniques violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act [...]
Maine’s House of Representatives approved a bill on Tuesday allowing terminally ill patients to request life-ending medications from doctors. The bill passed narrowly, by only 4 votes. This marks the state’s seventh legislative attempt to allow doctor assisted death. Known as the Maine Death with Dignity Act, the bill would allow physicians to prescribe the [...]
The Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, filed a motion for summary judgment on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to accelerate its lawsuit against the US government. The lawsuit, initially filed in March, involves Section 889 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This provision explicitly prohibits executive government agencies [...]
Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued a statement Wednesday at the Department of Justice reviewing the findings of his investigation and closing down his office. Mueller began by reviewing the order creating his office and the grand jury indictments that allowed him to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election. Mueller also highlighted his investigation into [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that third-party counterclaim defendants may not remove their case to federal court. The case began with George Jackson, a citizen of North Carolina who was sued by Citibank in a debt collection claim. Jackson responded to Citibank with claims against the bank as well as additional claims against [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled in Smith v. Berryhill Tuesday that Social Security Administration (SSA) disputes dismissed for timeliness may be subject to judicial review in a federal court. This case stems from 42 USC § 405(g), which allows judicial review of “any final decision … made after a hearing.” Currently, individuals seeking review of [...]
The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear oral arguments in a case brought by a Mexican family against a border patrol agent over the death of their 15-year-old-son, who was killed in a cross-border shooting. In 2010 Jesus Mesa, a US Border Patrol Agent, was on the US side of the Mexican-US boarder when [...]
The US Supreme Court declined Tuesday to take up the Boyertown Area School District v. Doe case that challenged a local school’s policy to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity. Declining to take on the case on appeal means that the US Court of Appeals for [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Nieves v. Bartlett that probable cause to make an arrest defeats a claim that the arrest was in retaliation for speech protected by the First Amendment. The facts of the case surround the arrest of Bartlett by officers Nieves and Weight. Bartlett was arrested in Alaska at the [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Friday granted preliminary injunction preventing a “fetal heartbeat” abortion law from taking effect, citing to a previous decision by the court that a fetus is not viable at 15 weeks. The new law proposed by the Mississippi legislature introduces an abortion [...]
