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US sues SpaceX for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and others
Headline Legal News 08/26/2023The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued SpaceX, the rocket company founded and run by Elon Musk, for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and people granted asylum.The complaint, filed in an administrative court within the departmen...
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After Roe v. Wade, the fight over abortion access moves to New Mexico
Headline Legal News 08/23/2023The sanctuary in Grace Covenant Reformed Church was packed.People stood shoulder to shoulder wherever they could — near the stained glass windows depicting scenes from the Bible, behind the neatly lined rows of chairs that serve as pews, agains...
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Some states reject federal money to find and replace dangerous lead pipes
Civil Rights 08/20/2023drinking water and damage brain development in children, some states are turning down funds.Washington, Oregon, Maine and Alaska declined all or most of their federal funds in the first of five years that the mix of grants and loans is available, The...
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McCarthy floats stopgap funding to prevent a government shutdown
Civil Rights 08/16/2023Congressional leaders are pitching a stopgap government funding package to avoid a federal shutdown after next month, acknowledging the House and Senate are nowhere near agreement on spending levels to keep federal operations running.House Speaker Ke...
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Owner of Maryland Construction Company Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion
Law Center 08/10/2023According to court documents, Jerry Lee Redman of Severn, Maryland, owned Redman Services Inc. (RSI), a paving and construction company. For at least 2015 through 2018, Redman filed corporate income tax returns for RSI that underreported the business...
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Biden goes west to talk about his efforts to combat climate change
Civil Rights 08/07/2023efforts to combat climate change as the region endures a brutally hot summer with soaring temperatures, the White House said Monday.Biden is expected to discuss the Inflation Reduction Act, America’s most significant response to climate change,...
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A federal appeals court made medication abortions harder to get in Guam
Law Reviews 08/07/2023People seeking medication abortions on the U.S. Territory of Guam must first have an in-person consultation with a doctor, a federal appeals court says, even though the nearest physician willing to prescribe the medication is 3,800 miles (6,100 kilom...
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Bankruptcy Filings Rise 10%, and Courts Feel the Pinch
Recent Cases 08/02/2023Personal and business bankruptcy filings rose 10 percent in the twelve-month period ending June 30, 2023, compared with the previous year. Bankruptcy totals are reported four times annually by the U.S. government.According to statistics release...
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Trump’s Lawyers Meet With Prosecutors as Election Interference Charges Loom
Legal Events 07/29/2023Lawyers for Donald Trump were meeting Thursday with members of special counsel Jack Smith’s team as a potential indictment loomed over the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a person fami...
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Abortion messaging roils debate over Ohio ballot initiative
Headline Legal News 07/25/2023The fraught politics of abortion have helped turn an August ballot question in Ohio that would make it harder to change the state constitution into a cauldron of misinformation and fear-mongering.State Issue 1, the sole question on the ballot, calls ...
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Judge upholds the $5 million jury verdict against Trump
Civil Rights 07/21/2023A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the former president’s claims that the award was excessive and that the jury vindicated him by failing to conclude he raped a columnist in a luxury de...
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Louisiana Senate passes bill banning gender-affirming care
State Bar & Other Associations 07/17/2023A controversial bill — that at one point had been presumed dead — banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths in Louisiana was passed by the Senate on Monday and is likely to reach the governor’s desk in the coming ...