The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) introduced three initiatives late last month to tackle the rising processing backlogs for work permits. The new rule includes a new internal cycle time goal, an expansion of premium processing services, and an improvement in access to Employment Authorization Documents. The expansion of... Read More »
The popular gaming company Riot Games has announced that it will pay $100 million to settle a 2018 class-action discrimination lawsuit with California state agencies and current female employees. The settlement is with the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) and the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing... Read More »
The city of Aurora, Colorado has settled with Elijah McClain’s family after 23-year-old Elijah McClain died at the hands of police officers in 2019. The city of Aurora has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the McClain family after Elijah’s death. The settlement was reached... Read More »
Hiding behind the myths of voter fraud and stolen elections, 27 states have introduced over 250 bills this year that pose new challenges to the right to vote, especially for people of color. These efforts come on the tail of the 19 discriminatory voting rights bills that passed in 33... Read More »
A complaint filed in federal court in San Jose, California, accuses tech giant Google of systemic bias against Black employees. The lawsuit was filed by former employee April Curley. The complaint details that Curley, who is a Black woman, was hired on for an entry-level position despite having over five... Read More »
The legislative history of current law, contemporary morals, and the increasingly widespread legalization of marijuana led two out of three judges on the Ninth Circuit to rule that a petitioner’s request for review of her deportation order from the Board of Immigration Appeals, for selling and transporting less than two... Read More »
A California man has been indicted on charges stemming from fraudulent loan applications seeking at least $27 million from the nation's coronavirus relief program, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Robert Benlevi, 53, of Encino, California, has been charged with falsely submitting 27 loan applications to four different banks in order... Read More »
The 12-year-old shooter at a South Carolina middle school has been arrested and charged with the murder of another 12-year-old student. The Greenville County Sheriff's office confirmed last Friday to the local news outlet, Greenville News, that the 12-year-old victim, Jamari Cortez Bonaparte Jackson, died as a result of gunshot... Read More »
Florida’s controversial "Parental Rights in Education" bill has caused an uproar within the state and throughout the nation. Parents with school-age children, particularly children who identify as gay or transgender, have been vocal about the harm they believe the bill could cause, with a major concern being the potential bullying,... Read More »
Writing that the right to vote in Florida is “under siege,” a federal judge struck parts of the state’s “unconstitutional” and “suppressive” new voting law. In addition, he took the rare step of ordering mandatory pre-clearance, an “extraordinary oversight” that will be required for new Florida laws that seek to... Read More »
A now-retired Pennsylvania trooper was awarded $2 million after a Philadelphia jury found his claims of forced retirement by his employer, the state police, to be substantial. Robert Newton was a Pennsylvania state trooper when he filed a federal lawsuit in December 2018 against the state police department. In his... Read More »
The federal Juvenile Delinquency Act (JDA) of 1974 aims to prevent future criminal behavior by minor offenders. One young man, who was first arrested for gang crimes when he was a minor, tried to argue that he is still entitled to JDA treatment after he turned 18. The Ninth Circuit... Read More »
An investigation into Missouri-based nonprofit charity Preferred Family Healthcare has resulted in the forfeiture of over $8 million to the federal government and the state of Arkansas. Preferred Family Healthcare was the nation's largest Medicaid-funded charity providing services to the public including counseling, treatment for mental health and substance abuse,... Read More »
He was late to court. He claimed he was the father of a newborn who got stuck in Los Angeles traffic. The judge, who was unmoved by the burglary defendant’s excuses, disregarded his plea agreement and sent him to prison. But a California appeal court found his excuses acceptable and... Read More »
Jurors have awarded protesters in the 2020 demonstrations against the death of Minneapolis man, George Floyd, a total of $14 million. The death of Floyd in the summer of 2020 sparked a national outcry for police reform across the nation. In many cities, demonstrators came out to peacefully protest police... Read More »
