3855 ABA Journal Civil Rights articles.
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Backup driver for self-driving car is charged after crash death
A backup driver for an Uber self-driving test vehicle has been charged with negligent homicide for a March 2018 crash…
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Louisville will pay $12M to family of Breonna Taylor
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of Breonna…
Sep 15, 2020 4:49 PM CDT Court blocks Trump’s census count order A special three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has blocked President Donald Trump’s order to exclude…
Sep 11, 2020 4:12 PM CDT COVID-19 outbreak in Jefferson County attorney’s office leads to court suspension Three criminal court dockets in the Jefferson County Circuit Court in Louisville, Kentucky, will be suspended through Sept. 30…
Sep 8, 2020 4:35 PM CDT Sep 4, 2020 12:27 PM CDT Law students, like Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, are facing questions of whether to stay silent or speak up about societal issues such as social justice in this country, their interests and safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Sep 3, 2020 12:25 PM CDT Sep 2, 2020 11:37 AM CDT Judge is punched by passing bicyclist Judge Phyllis Chu of the New York City Criminal Court was punched in the jaw by a man who rode past her on…
Sep 1, 2020 4:21 PM CDT Aug 31, 2020 12:42 PM CDT 4th Circuit rules for transgender youth on bathroom policy The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, Virginia, has ruled for former high school student Gavin Grimm, a…
Aug 27, 2020 4:30 PM CDT Alaska attorney general resigns after text messages disclosed Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson has resigned after a news investigation found that he sent more than 550 text messages in March…
Aug 26, 2020 4:36 PM CDTAfternoon Briefs: Trump’s census count order blocked; lawyer dies by suicide as cops close in
Afternoon Briefs: COVID-19 outbreak in attorney’s office leads to court suspension; prosecutor killed while cycling
Unusual nuisance law cited in suit for Tulsa massacre reparations; one plaintiff is 105
A lawsuit filed in Oklahoma this week seeks damages for a continuing nuisance stemming from the 1921 Tulsa massacre in an affluent neighborhood known as the Black Wall Street.
‘Talk less, smile more’: The Hamilton-Burr conundrum law students face today
1st Circuit lifts ban on immigration arrests at state courthouses in Massachusetts
A federal appeals court on Tuesday vacated a federal judge’s preliminary injunction that blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from making civil arrests of people in the country illegally at state courthouses in Massachusetts.
Afternoon Briefs: Judge punched by man on bike; 2nd Circuit delays subpoena for Trump tax records
Former inmate’s suit says appointed lawyer was ineffective and unlicensed in this state
A former Washington inmate claims in a lawsuit that he pleaded guilty to two felony charges after getting bad advice from an appointed lawyer who wasn’t licensed in the state.
Afternoon Briefs: 4th Circuit rules for transgender youth; tribe objects to execution
Afternoon Briefs: Alaska attorney general resigns over text messages; lawsuit claims racial bias in concussion deal
