When Timothy Leary and other pioneers of the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s wrote about magic mushrooms and other mind-bending drugs, few people would have believed that many of them could actually become legal, albeit 50 years later. Some forms of plant-based psychedelics are already sold in Colorado, Oregon and... Read More »
Southern California's Redlands Unified School District has agreed to pay the victim of a former teacher who had a history of sexually abusing her students. This will be the second settlement the school district agreed to involving a victim of the teacher. Laura Whitehurst, a former AP English teacher and... Read More »
An administrative judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has ruled that a class action lawsuit filed by pregnant women working at the Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) can move forward. On April 21, an administrative judge at the EEOC certified the class of employees in the claims... Read More »
More than 130 school districts are joining in on a lawsuit filed against the state of Ohio over its private school voucher program. The uptick in schools joining the suit comes after the coalition group that filed the lawsuit, Vouchers Hurt Ohio, says the state is engaging in bullying tactics.... Read More »
A reporter who works at a small Kansas newspaper filed a federal lawsuit against her town’s police chief last Wednesday after officers raided the newspaper’s operations in early August. Deb Gruver brought forward her lawsuit against Marion Police Chief, Gideon Cody, accusing the chief of violating her constitutional rights during... Read More »
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced last Friday that a man who was denied employment with a trucking company because he was deaf will be awarded more than $36 million following a federal jury’s deliberation. The Nebraska jury deliberated for less than two hours after a four-day trial and... Read More »
A group of corporate managers for mobile home communities along with a mobile home market data provider are the target of a new lawsuit that was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division. The lawsuit accuses the defendants of conspiring to influence rental... Read More »
A mentally disordered woman, sentenced to 17 years in state prison, then transferred to a state mental hospital, will not be recommitted because those who examined her failed to present sufficient evidence that showed she “currently represents a substantial danger of physical harm to others” beyond a reasonable doubt. In... Read More »
Danny Masterson, the star of the hit show, “That ‘70s Show,” was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Thursday following two convictions of raping two women in 2003. After over 20 years, the victims were able to find some relief as they addressed Masterson in court via... Read More »
Last month, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a set of proposed regulations to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The agency’s proposal takes an expansive view of the requirements imposed by the law. Taking effect this June, the PWFA was intended to fill a gap in... Read More »
Back in 1812, Elbridge Gerry, then the Governor of Massachusetts, created an odd-shaped Congressional district in his state, manipulating the boundaries to create an advantage for his political party. His legacy, called “gerrymandering,” lives on, and Alabama’s latest attempt to use it to avoid giving Black Alabamans what a federal... Read More »
A group of female professors at Vassar College have filed a class action lawsuit against the college accusing them of knowingly failing to address the gender gap in pay among its faculty members. The suit represents five current and former full-time female professors who teach subjects ranging from physics to... Read More »
A series of new laws, petitions and amendments has kept a convicted sexually violent predator (SVP) in a California state hospital, without a trial, since 1993. The Supreme Court of California has now considered his constitutional rights and ruled that “persons facing SVP commitment have a due process right to... Read More »
During the COVID-19 pandemic, employees of California State University (CSU) were ordered to conduct their classes remotely. In order to comply, one biology professor tried to retrieve his computer and other vital equipment from his on-campus office, but he was denied permission to enter it. As a result, he had... Read More »
A Federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that challenged a transgender woman's induction into the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Wyoming. The lawsuit made national headlines and was dubbed an intentional effort to further curb transgender rights and protections. Last week’s ruling to dismiss the lawsuit... Read More »
