Peter Smith: “If victims don’t call, then the police don’t get contacted until one of these incidents reaches a boiling point.” Photo by Gene Smirnov.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will conduct a same-sex marriage ceremony Saturday when Ginsburg’s close friend, Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser, marries economist John Roberts. She’ll be the first U.S.…
A Pennsylvania man shot by a cop who thought the man was holding a gun, when the man was actually holding a pair of underwear, filed a federal lawsuit against…
There is a constitutionally protected interest in traveling by air, a Portland, Ore., federal judge recently ruled, and people on the government’s no-fly list have a due process right when…
Fifty years after a massive civil rights march in Washington, D.C., culminated in an electrifying “I Have a Dream” speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., tens of thousands…
Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay $160 million to settle racial bias claims by 700 African-American brokers who alleged unequal treatment impeded their careers at the brokerage, according to a…
A California lawyer has filed a civil rights suit against a Miami Beach hotel that she says was unable to accommodate her wheelchair despite advertising itself as disabilities-compliant.
The restaurant manager who sued Paula Deen and her brother for alleged workplace discrimination has dismissed the lawsuit and issued a statement calling Deen a “woman of compassion and kindness.”
Corrected: Acquitted of murder in July in the controversial Florida slaying of an unarmed black teenager who was killed with a 9 mm. Kel-Tec PF-9 pistol, George Zimmerman has reportedly…
A Christian photographer who refused to photograph the wedding of a gay couple violated state anti-discrimination laws, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The Department of Justice Department announced Thursday that it will sue Texas over its voter identification law and will seek to intervene in a suit involving redistricting there.
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Peter Smith: “If victims don’t call, then the police don’t get contacted until one of these incidents reaches a boiling point.” Photo by Gene Smirnov.
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Photo of Gov. George Wallace by the Associated Press.
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