A Milwaukee police officer stands before the remains of a bar last summer, after police there faced off with protesters following the police shooting of a black man. For decades, interactions between police and people of color in the Midwestern city have been fraught, and those encounters are the subject of a new lawsuit brought by the ACLU.AFP/Getty Imageshide caption A Milwaukee police …
The Supreme Court of Arkansas on Feb. 16 decided to uphold a Faulkner County Circuit Court certified a class of Conway police and firefighters who are seeking salary increases. Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Judge Rhonda K. Wood wrote in the court’s opinion that the case originated when Conway police officers and firefighters brought a class action lawsuit …
The Justice Department has settled a religious discrimination lawsuit brought late in President Obama’s term against a Michigan city for turning down an Islamic center’s zoning request to build a mosque. The government lawsuit came after the American Islamic Community Center sued the city of Sterling Heights in August over the denial. The center wanted to build in the city as they …
As a casino tycoon, Donald Trump was no stranger to controversy. Here are a few of the issues that have followed him into his presidential campaign. Serge Bycov, of Philadelphia, removes the Trump name from a sign at the entrance of the former Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City on Feb. 15(Photo: Michael Ein, The Press of Atlantic City/AP) 21 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN4 COMMENTEMAILMORE …
Four of the 81 people whose names were added without their knowledge to a list of people requiring a police escort in City Hall filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday afternoon against the city. The court action came only hours after city officials declined to release the criteria for putting people on the list, citing a state law allowing confidentiality of security measures in government buildings. The plaintiffs named in the lawsuit are Elaine Blanchard, who officiated one of the first same-sex weddings in Memphis after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling; Mid-South Peace and Justice Executive Director Bradley Watkins and coordinator Paul Garner; and activist Keedran “TNT” Franklin. The lawsuit — which you can read in its entirety here — seeks …
The city is delaying borrowing $300 million to support a massive rebuild of the city’s parks, libraries and community centers as a lawsuit over the new sugar-sweetened beverage tax snakes through the courts system. Mike Dunn, a spokesman for Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration, told Billy Penn Tuesday that in addition to delaying the borrowing of that $300 million, the city …
Sterling Heights City Council on Tuesday night voted to allow the construction of a mosque that was previously met with controversial opposition from being the community, prompting federal intervention. Mayor Michael C. Taylor called the decision the “American thing to do.” The seven-member city council voted unanimously to enter into settlement agreements with the American …
The Milwaukee Police Department will need to defend its controversial use of stop-and-frisk policies in light of a class-action lawsuit lodged by the American Civil Liberties Union, according to a report. The nonprofit is representing Charles Collins, 67, and numerous others in the Wisconsin city, with a class-action case accusing the police force led by Chief Edward Flynn of racially profiling …
A lawsuit to force a public vote on the city’s $64 million bond for Scottrade Center renovations was unceremoniously withdrawn Tuesday just hours after it was filed. The lawsuit sought to revive a 2002 voter-approved ordinance that was struck down by a circuit court judge in 2015. But the ordinance exempted professional sports facilities built before 2004, and Scottrade Center …
A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges the city can’t spend taxpayer money to renovate Scottrade Center without voters deciding at the polls. The lawsuit seeks to revive a 2002 voter-approved ordinance that was struck down by a circuit court judge in 2015. One of the attorneys, John Ammann, says a different circuit court judge wouldn’t be bound by the other judge’s previous ruling.