A mother’s six-year conflict with the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind over her severely disabled daughter’s education has veered back into U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled May 10 the Salt Lake court must reconsider its decisions in the case of a woman who filed suit in 2013 challenging the USDB’s handling of her …
When Jane C. Forrester Winne’s federal student loans were dismissed after she became disabled because of complications from diabetes in 2011, she believed all the money she borrowed between 1980 and 2008 to attend the University of Maine had been accounted for and that she was free and clear of debt. Three years later, Forrester Winne, 64, of Orono began getting letters and …
Two former baseball players for the Frontier League, which includes the Lake Erie Crushers, are suing the league for what they say is low pay that violates federal wage-and-hour laws. The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court in Akron, says that the independent league, which has teams throughout the Midwest, exploited players by not paying minimum wage and overtime pay. …
Defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul has gotten paid indirectly by the NFL’s broadcast partners for the past six years. He’s still hoping to get paid directly by one of those broadcast partners through the legal system. The latest details in the invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by Pierre-Paul against ESPN and Adam Schefter surfaced recently from Julia Marsh of the New York Post.
Today, the Human Rights Campaign and Equality NC issued the following statements in response to the news that Governor Pat McCrory has filed a lawsuit defending his deeply discriminatory HB2. “North Carolina’s HB2 law is blatantly unconstitutional and violates federal civil rights law,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “The Department of Justice has already been clear that it violates the civil …
A federal judge has ruled that even though a putative class-action suit against Facebook – which alleges the company lifted users’ biometric information without permission – was moved from Illinois federal court to California federal jurisdiction, Illinois law regarding privacy will apply in the case. The decision was delivered May 5 by California Federal Judge James Donato, who struck down …
The Latest on a federal lawsuit over a Mississippi religious objections law (all times local): 1:58 p.m. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is criticizing the American Civil Liberties Union over the group’s federal lawsuit that seeks to block a law that will let workers cite their own religious objections to same-sex marriage to deny services to people. Republican Bryant signed House Bill 1523 in …
Attorney General Loretta Lynch struck back against North Carolina’s lawsuit over the state’s controversial LGBT law, calling it “state-sanctioned discrimination” against transgender people. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday filed a lawsuit against the federal government after it warned the state last week to back down from its controversial LGBT law or risk losing millions of dollars in …
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has sued the U.S. government and the Justice Department, asking federal courts to clarify a controversial new state law that limits transgender access to bathrooms. The Justice Department in turn filed its own lawsuit against the state, saying the law restricting use of …
North Carolina Gov. McCrory today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice that asks a federal court to determine that House Bill 2, the discriminatory law that removes local legal protections for LGBT people and prohibits transgender people from using public facilities that correspond to their gender identity, does not violate civil rights laws. Last week, the U.S. Department of …