Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price gave House Republicans a preview of the next regulatory steps he’s planning to take to ease Obamacare’s rules, which will include more steps to stabilize the individual health insurance market and a measure to soften the law’s “essential health benefit” requirements. Here’s what HHS is considering, according to a GOP source in the room: Microsoft …
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Project Vote, Campaign Legal Center, Voting Rights Institute at the Georgetown University Law Center, along with the New York City office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP and Atlanta-based firm of Caplan Cobb LLP, acting as pro bono counsel, announced a settlement today in a lawsuit filed on behalf Asian Americans Advancing Justice – …
Got milk? If the answer is yes, you might be owed a little pocket cash. Lactose-tolerant Americans are cashing in on a class-action settlement from a milk price-fixing lawsuit.
Wells Fargo Advisors has reached a $35.5 million settlement with a group of African-American financial advisers who claimed the firm discriminated against them due to their race. The group of six brokers, with lead plaintiff Lance Slaughter, are joined by 325 confirmed African American brokers or trainees at the firm, said Linda Friedman, the attorney for the class plaintiffs. There could be …
Dash Boutique is blind to the needs of the visually impaired — at least, that’s the claim made by a lawsuit filed against the boutique chain founded by the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” family. In the suit filed last week in federal court in Florida, Andres Gomez claims that the website for the chain, which offers merchandise for sale, discriminates against the visually impaired. “This case …
A liberal group that has filed suit to change the way Alabama judges are elected isn’t likely to get very far, according to a constitutional law expert in the state. The lawsuit – filed by the NAACP Alabama chapter and four black voters – alleges the state of Alabama violates the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against African Americans. John Eidsmoe, senior counsel for the Foundation for …
The strife of thousands of Arab Americans being discriminated against by government entities since 9/11, as well as by some Trump-inspired individuals, is nothing new to the immigrant community. Recently, cases of banks abruptly closing the accounts of their Arab Americans customers without explanation have begun to surface in district courts. Financial institutions like Chase, Bank …
“I mean, they got there first. But now you want to take it from them? Sort of ironic.”
The only people that wish to “take” anything in this case is people that wish to apply the term native American only to themselves, or other people, while excluding other native Americans. They are shamefully and disgracefully taking the word native for themselves.
As to what’s “ironic,” that would be a group of people misappropriating …
On Monday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the DOJ has filed suit against the state of North Carolina over HB 2, which seeks to protect citizens from being intruded upon by transgenders in the restrooms by dictating they can only use the bathroom of their biological sex. In her press announcement, Lynch denounced the law as “state-sponsored discrimination” that denies transgenders …
In the wake of a reversal in a Cuban policy that prevented those born in Cuba from taking cruises to the island, a class-action lawsuit against Carnival Cruises and its Fathom line was pulled Thursday. A notice of voluntary dismissal was filed in U.S. District Court in Miami on behalf of Francisco Marty and Amparo Sanchez, who previously had been refused bookings on Fathom’s maiden voyage from …