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Jul 06 2020
News
Court Reinstates $38 Million Award In Damages to Family of Korryn Gaines, Young Black Woman Killed In 2016 By Police
A Maryland special appeals court has ruled in favor of the family of Korryn Gaines, who was shot and killed by police in 2016. Since Gaines’ death, her family has continuously pursued justice in an ongoing wrongful death lawsuit. In July, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals reinstated a multi-million dollar award to the family.
Initially, the family was awarded $38 million in damages
Atlanta Black StarJul 10 2012
News
Court Gives States Ammunition In Health Care Battle
Nothing breeds lawsuits like uncertainty. That being the case, the Supreme Court's landmark health care ruling is almost certain to open the door to lawsuits challenging the federal government's authority.
The court ruled the federal government can't force states to participate in a major expansion of Medicaid or else risk losing existing Medicaid funds from Washington. That threat
NPR (Online News)Mar 01 2021
Fact Check
Fact Checking Xavier Becerra’s Claim That He ‘Never Sued Any Nuns’
During his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, President Joe Biden’s nominee for health and human services secretary, Xavier Becerra—the attorney general of California since 2017—claimed that he “never sued any nuns” in response to a question about litigation against the Little Sisters of the Poor. Becerra further claimed that the lawsuit in question was filed against the federal
The DispatchNov 12 2016
News
Judge Tells Trump University Litigants They Would be Wise to Settle
The U.S. judge overseeing a lawsuit against President-elect Donald Trump and his Trump University told both sides they would be wise to settle the case "given all else that's involved."
Newsmax (News)Nov 19 2020
News
Was a Biden Staffer Arrested for Voter Fraud?
This is a false claim and comes at a moment when President Trump’s campaign has filed lawsuits, alleging voter fraud in certain states.
The man in the picture in this widely shared post, however, is not Dallas Jones, Biden’s Texas political director. It’s a photo of Cuba Gooding Jr., who, as the Associated Press reported, was arrested in June 2019 after a woman accused him of groping
The DispatchAug 19 2021
News
U.S. Initial Unemployment Claims Drop for Fourth Straight Week
Applications for U.S. state unemployment benefits dropped for a fourth consecutive week, a trend that suggests labor market conditions are improving as the economy recovers.
Initial unemployment claims in regular state programs dropped 29,000 to 348,000 in the week ended Aug. 14, a pandemic low, Labor Department data showed Thursday. Economists in a Bloomberg survey had called for a
BloombergNov 18 2019
News
California Sued Over Law Requiring Corporations To Adopt Woman Quotas
A new lawsuit is challenging a California law that requires corporations to elect a minimum number of women to their boards of directors.
On Wednesday, the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) sued California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, the state official in charge of administering SB 826. That law, passed in 2018, requires that, by 2020, all publicly traded companies headquartered or
ReasonApr 23 2020
News
Democrats sue to ease absentee voting in Pennsylvania and S.C.
Democrats continued their aggressive legal strategy to make voting easier on Wednesday, filing lawsuits seeking to expand mail-in balloting this year in both reliably red South Carolina and premier battleground Pennsylvania.
The suits are the latest in the party's multimillion-dollar campaign against a wide range of laws and regulations it alleges are illegally and unconstitutionally
The FulcrumAug 16 2020
Analysis
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Shutdown of California's Gun Magazine Ban
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 panel decision, today upheld a lower court's shutting down of California's ban on gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, so-called "large capacity magazines" (LCMs).
The decision in the case of Duncan v. Becerra upheld a district court decision for summary judgment against the state of California from March 2019. The law barring LCMs as
ReasonOct 15 2017
News
18 states sue Trump administration over halted Obamacare subsidies
The attorneys general for New York, California and over a dozen other states filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's administration in an effort to block their decision to cut off subsidy payments made to health insurance companies that sell coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
Salon