A commission with Gov. Rick Snyder appointees is asking the state Department of Civil Rights to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge against the state’s emergency manager law that Snyder...
...In 2002 the Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization of black firefighters, initiated a bias complaint challenging the fairness of the 1999 and 2002 Firefighter exams. This prompted the U.S...
On Wednesday afternoon, a court convened to hear the case of students at Fordham University who are suing the school for denying them the ability to form an official student club in December 2016...
... Some, like Mr. Abdulwahab’s wife, Aisha Mahyoub, 30, were approved for a visa only to have it revoked once the ban went into effect. Such an action violated the terms of the ban, according to a...
... Giving material support to a US government-classified foreign terrorist group is a criminal offense in violation of three different legal prohibitions, says Shayana Kadidal, senior managing...
The case of the Olympia Food Co-op, Professor Steven Salaita, and other attacks on protected speech. Panel: Responding to Israel’s Influence on Campus and in Court—Janet McMahon, moderator...
...The filing by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Center for Constitutional Rights and American Immigration Council seeks action to “remedy the combined effect of these policies in a single stroke.”...
... "We are asking the court to reinstate the jury verdict," says Beth Stephens, an attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that has been litigating...
...As of August, weeks after the asylum ban took effect, there were roughly 26,000 asylum seekers either on wait lists or waiting to get on those wait lists in 12 Mexican border cities, according to...
..."Today, the court rejected the Trump administration's claims that it cannot wait to implement its dangerous and discriminatory public charge policy change," a litigation team in the case brought...