The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the 11 states of the Confederacy and those areas not under Union control at the time of its signing. The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution was intended to abolish slavery in the rest of the nation. However, some problematic language remained which... Read More »
On the positive side, the candy companies in question do not claim to condone child slave trafficking. In fact, according to court filings, Nestle USA “firmly believes that traffickers deserve punishment.” But, they stressed, “This case is not about any of that.” Indeed, Nestle & Cargill v. Doe, heard in... Read More »
Justin Ash, a 37-year-old resident of Murrieta, California, was sentenced to prison for the illegal sale and distribution of drugs. During his plea that took place in January of 2020, Ash divulged his operation in obtaining illegal drugs in bulk from overseas manufacturers for the purpose of selling them online... Read More »
String of Charges Involves Numerous Actors in Complex Case It’s a complex story of numerous alleged illegal actions involving President Trump’s attorney; illegal donations to a pro-Trump super PAC; Ukraine and Belarus-born defendants and a Florida golf pro; millions of scammed investors… and it’s not a movie. Lev Parnas, a... Read More »
A Fort Worth, Texas woman is seeking to get her conviction of illegal voting charges overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Crystal Mason, a Black woman from Fort Worth, Texas, cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election. Mason says she cast her provisional ballot on the... Read More »
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently affirmed a 2019 lower court decision that continued to grant undocumented immigrants the right to obtain a standard driver’s license in New York. The plaintiff, Michael Kearns, sued the state by arguing that he had the "impossible task of choosing... Read More »
The Kentucky governor ordered schools in his state to close due to the explosion of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US. Some Kentucky schools remain open even while the virus rages, ignoring the orders and fighting them in the Supreme Court. In a series of press briefings, Democratic Governor Andy... Read More »
On November 30, a Transportation Security Administration employee filed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. federal government. The lawsuit alleges that the government has deprived TSA workers of required hazard pay and environmental discharge pay for work done at airports during the pandemic. The TSA employee who filed the lawsuit... Read More »
On November 13, 2020, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia blocked drilling on more than 300,000 acres in Wyoming for the second time in two years. In his decision, the judge took the Trump administration to task for failing to properly... Read More »
When the US Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) rejected former Columbian police officer Edier de Jesus Rodriguez Bedoya’s application for asylum, the ominous death threats kept coming. Bedoya and his family had arrived in the US legally in 2013 and applied for asylum. The now-retired Colombian law officer had spent... Read More »
Judge Miranda Du approved and revealed a settlement between Tesla and Martin Tripp on Monday, November 30, 2020. The settlement stipulates that Tripp will pay $400,000 to Tesla. He was accused of leaking information to reporters. He admitted the charges of stealing trade secrets. Tripp was a process technician at... Read More »
Late last Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court voted in a narrow decision of 5-4 blocking the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, from strictly limiting the number of people congregating in areas of worship, including churches and synagogues. The governor of New York implemented these restrictive measures after the state... Read More »
Wisconsin Attorney General Joshua Kaul and Governor Tony Evers are petitioning the state supreme court to assume original action in a case against the state legislature. The suit not only involves all three branches of government but pits two of them against each other. Kaul and Evers seek to have... Read More »
Several groups of nonprofit environmental advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against California. The lawsuit is in opposition to a new dam that is set to be built in the Del Puerto Canyon. The lawsuit was filed by the Sierra Club, the California Native Plant Society, Friends of the River,... Read More »
On Wednesday, November 25, 2020, the Florida Supreme Court refused to reinstate death penalty sentences for two men whose death sentences were vacated pursuant to a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The men, Bessman Okafor and Michael James Jackson, had been convicted of murder and sentenced to be executed prior... Read More »
