Rights

Colorado Gun Rights Group Files Lawsuit Over ‘Red Flag’ Law

Rocky Mountain Gun Owners filed a  lawsuit Thursday over the “red flag” gun law, arguing that the House Democrats violated the legislative process. Head of the gun rights group Dudley Brown and several House Republicans say Democrats who control the House did not fulfill a Republican request to read the bill out loud in full in an intelligible way.“In this case, Democrats didn’t see that they were violating the Constitution to pass a bill to violate the Constitution. And now they’re going to see it,” Brown said. Other lawsuits could be aimed at the substance of the law and efforts to recall legislators who supported it are in the works, he said.


Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Noor, Minneapolis Moves Forward After Conviction

The family of Justine Ruszczyk Damond last year filed a $50 million civil rights lawsuit against ex-officer Mohamed Noor, the police department and the city. At a news conference earlier in the day, Frey avoided going into specifics about the Noor verdict because of the lawsuit. “Minneapolis is an extraordinary city, and like cities throughout the nation, we also have difficulties with police …


Alibaba Pays $250M to Settle Lawsuit Over Failure to Disclose Counterfeit Claims

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the e-commerce giant had failed to disclose meetings with the Chinese government regarding alleged counterfeit products before it went public. The class-action settlement’s terms named Alibaba and executives including co-founders Jack Ma and Joe Tsai, who denied all allegations of wrongdoing. It was …



Louisiana Facing a Class Action Lawsuit for Not Providing Defendants Adequate Defense

A collection of civil rights attorneys and a New York City law firm filed a class action lawsuit in February, hoping to change the racist and unconstitutional legal system in Louisiana. The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and Section 13 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974 guarantee the right to meaningful and effective assistance of counsel to every person …


Library Settles Transgender Lawsuit, Now Covers Transgender Surgery

Rachel Dovel didn’t mean to become a crusader for transgender rights. But the library employee found herself cast in that role last year when the library’s health insurance refused to pay for her gender confirmation surgery – and the library’s board wouldn’t budge. She underwent surgery in December – and Monday she and her legal team announced she settled a lawsuit against the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. …


Civil Rights Group Files Lawsuit Against Sheriff Hodgson

Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is being sued by a civil rights group over his decision to enter into a federal immigration enforcement program, as well as his offer to send Bristol County inmates to build President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico Border. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice filed suit Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court against …


New Federal Lawsuit Challenges CA’s “Large Capacity” Magazine Confiscation Scheme

A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed on behalf of seven individual plaintiffs and four gun rights groups challenging California’s recently-enacted large capacity magazine ban/confiscation scheme. Prior to the passage of SB 1446 last year and voter approval of Prop. 63 in November, Californians could possess large capacity magazines if they owned them before January 1, 2000, when the …


[Opinion] AJC Watchdog: DC Lawyers, Liberal Groups Push 6th District Lawsuit

With the nation’s most closely watched congressional race headed to a runoff in June, a D.C.-based voting rights advocacy group is pressing in federal court to reopen voter registration. It is the latest legal maneuver for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. The non-profit law firm dates back to the Kennedy administration, but it’s been very active in Georgia since the …


A Class Action Lawsuit Claims That New York’s Subway System Breaks the Law

New York’s subway system is one of the most robust in the world. It provides nearly 1.8 billion rides every year, giving the city the highest rate of public transportation usage out of any metropolitan area in the United States. But for hundreds of thousands of disabled New Yorkers, commuting through a vast majority of the city’s subway stations is simply impossible.