A former employee of Panda Express filed a lawsuit earlier this month after being “constructively discharged” in the Summer of 2019 after returning from a “self-improvement” workshop promoted by the company. The complaint alleges that she was forced to strip down to her underwear, along with all other participants, in... Read More »
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice filed a complaint against the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office and the Mobile County Sheriff, Sam Cochran, alleging repeated sexual harassment inflicted on female correctional officers by inmates the officers were forced to patrol. The extent of the harassment, as argued in the lawsuit,... Read More »
Since December, the United States has been slowly rolling out vaccines across states and territories. There have been 95.7 million doses administered with a rough estimate of 2.17 million doses administered per day. The United States has reached a point where it has vaccinated more people than those having tested... Read More »
With over 312 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines given to individuals in 106 countries, and a rough rate of 8.08 million doses a day, governments and industries are looking for ways to reopen, restart trade, and resume international travel. While records of vaccinations aren’t an inherent violation of privacy, as... Read More »
An agreement signed on the last day of President Trump’s administration that would allow a federal labor union representing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees “the ability to indefinitely delay the implementation of agency policies” has been disapproved by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) incoming leadership under President... Read More »
The National Coalition for Men is requesting the Supreme Court to consider whether the male-only requirement for Selective Service registration is a violation of equal protection guaranteed under the Constitution. Currently, most United States citizens and immigrant men between the ages of 18 and 26 must register with the Selective... Read More »
On February 16, 2021, following what the industry has called “one of the biggest blunders in banking history,” U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York ruled Citibank is not entitled to a return of half a million dollars wired by mistake. In August 2020,... Read More »
Earlier this month the Virginia General Assembly abolished the death penalty, becoming the 23rd state to end capital punishment, but the first of the former Confederacy to do so. Along with Confederate monuments, the death sentence is largely seen as a remaining trace of leftover ideas from states below the... Read More »
Earlier this month, a former Secretary-Treasurer for a train engineers’ union was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to embezzling union funds. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) investigated after an internal audit found that Edward C. Davis, Jr. had written approximately 86 checks to himself... Read More »
On February 4, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order to address two specific categories of the United States Refugee Admission Program (USRAP): individuals applying under the Special Immigrant Visas for Iraqi and Afghan Allies program and future applicants becoming refugees because of climate change. President Biden aims to ensure... Read More »
In settlement proceedings, Google LLC agreed to pay more than $3.8 million to more than 5,000 employees and job applicants over allegations of “systemic compensation and hiring discrimination” against women and Asian applicants for software engineering positions. Google has long denied accusations of any pay gap or disparity for women... Read More »
Douglass Mackey was arrested Wednesday, January 27, 2021, after a Federal Bureau of Investigation complaint found Mackey to be the main contributor behind a disinformation scheme to interfere with the 2016 Presidential Election between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn, opened... Read More »
One of President Biden’s executive orders issued in the first week of his administration is intended to “encourage \[federal worker] union organizing and collective bargaining” and to “protect, empower, and rebuild the career federal workforce.” During the Trump administration, three executive orders targeting federal unions were signed into law on... Read More »
An executive order signed within the first 24 hours of the President Biden administration rescinded former-President Trump’s “discriminatory ban” on entry into the United States, effectively canceling one executive order and three presidential proclamations issued by the previous administration. The new order requires the departments of State and Homeland Security... Read More »
Within just hours of Joseph R. Biden Jr. taking the oath of office as the 46th President of the United States, the president signed into law by Executive Order measures to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control. The Executive Order (EO) entitled: “Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government to... Read More »
