The District Court of Nevada filed a decision in favor of a transgender man regarding his right to obtain a U.S. passport in his identifying gender. Oliver Bruce Morris had been denied a passport in 2018 for not submitting certification from a doctor that he had completed the medical treatment... Read More about Federal Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Male to Obtain US Passport in Identifying Gender
18 Kentucky bar applicants are recovering from whiplash after 15 of them were told they had passed the October Kentucky bar exam when they, in fact, had not. Conversely, three others were told they had failed the bar exam when they had actually passed. The erroneous results are being blamed... Read More about Bar Exam Fiasco: 15 Kentucky Law Graduates Receive Incorrect Bar Exam Scores after an Administrative Error
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The lawsuit alleges that under the Trump administration, these agencies purchased cell phone data that tracked the location of millions of immigrants. The ACLU filed the... Read More about ACLU Alleges Trump Administration Is Collecting Cell Phone Data to Track Immigrants and Other Americans
Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law three new laws authored by James Ramos, the first member of a Native American tribe to serve in the California state legislature. The three laws promote the rights of Native Americans in the state and will go into effect on January 1, 2021. James... Read More about With One of Their Own in the Statehouse, Native Americans in California Win New rights
John Pierce, a California attorney representing 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, has stepped away from the defense team after prosecutors raised ethical concerns about Pierce. Rittenhouse is facing murder charges after fatally shooting two people and wounding another during the Kenosha protest that gained national attention this past summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin.... Read More about California Attorney Withdraws From Rittenhouse Criminal Case After Ethical Concerns
New York Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis fully restored the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on December 4, overturning Trump’s decision not to comply with the Obama-era initiative for children of illegal immigrants brought to the US. Under Obama’s plan, DACA children, previously known as DREAMers, were provided a... Read More about After a Three-Year Legal Battle, DACA Program Restored Over Trump Administration Objections by Judge’s Order
Following last year’s recommendation from the World Health Organization (WHO), The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) voted last week to delete cannabis from its most “highly addictive and highly liable to abuse” category and reclassify it as a drug with potential for therapeutic medical use. CND’s categories, called... Read More about UN Commission Deletes Cannabis from “Most Highly Addictive” Classification
A sweeping bill to decriminalize marijuana was passed on December 4 as the Democrat-led US House of Representatives voted 228-164 to approve the ‘Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act’ (MORE Act). The new law would reschedule cannabis and remove it from the long list of federally controlled substances while also... Read More about Will US House-approved Bill to Decriminalize Cannabis, Now Facing Republican Senate, Go Up in Smoke?
Five New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) employees have been charged with extensive overtime fraud for filling out timesheets, stating they worked longer hours than they actually did. The four employees who worked for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) included Thomas Caputo, 56, Joseph Ruzzo, 56, John Nugent, 50,... Read More about 5 MTA Employees Collected Over $1 Million in Fraudulent Overtime Pay
The Trump administration is putting more pressure on China by banning cotton imports from the country's Western region, Xinjiang. The move comes after suspicions that the region is using slave labor to make textile goods. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency shared last Wednesday that the ban would be... Read More about U.S. Bans Cotton Products From Chinese Firm XPCC Due to Allegations of Slave Labor
Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published its finalized environmental impact statement (EIS) that recommends new rollbacks on protections for migratory birds. This final step of publishing its proposal in the federal registrar could mean that the new regulations will be in effect before the end of December,... Read More about Trump Administration Rolls Back Protections on Protected Migratory Birds
Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, has brought a $75 million lawsuit against the Department of Justice, the FBI, former FBI director James B. Comey, former Assistant Director Andrew McCabe, ex-bureau lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, form FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa... Read More about Former Trump Campaign Adviser Carter Page Sues Over FBI Surveillance
On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against Facebook alleging that the company used unfair hiring practices that favored temporary visa holders over qualified U.S. workers. The lawsuit comes as part of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division’s Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative, an initiative that was born... Read More about DOJ Files Lawsuit Against Facebook for Unfair Hiring Practices That Favor H1-B Visa Holders
The Office of Inspector General for the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced a special fraud alert last month. Special fraud alerts serve as a warning on particular practices that the agency plans on investigating further. In this first warning issued in six years, pharmaceutical companies are... Read More about Inspector General Issues Fraud Alert Regarding Doctors Paid to Promote Products
Over 400 different lawmakers across 34 countries are in support of a new initiative called the Make Amazon Pay campaign. This campaign has released a list of "common demands for Amazon," in which signatories have outlined the negative impact Amazon has had on workers, communities, and the world as a... Read More about Over 400 Lawmakers from 34 Countries Support the 'Make Amazon Pay' Campaign