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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR) have joined a growing number of governmental agencies and public health organizations in issuing specific COVID-19 related guidance. [read post]
15 Oct 2022, 1:44 pm by Nassiri Law
” As the EEOC points out, this type of conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [read post]
19 Sep 2018, 11:28 am by msatta
His replacement of Anthony Kennedy will likely change the Court’s balance in several areas, perhaps including the constitutional status of abortion, marriage rights, and who knows what other civil rights affairs. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 11:47 am by Garrett Hinck
Saudi Arabia objected to a proposed U.N. commission to investigate human rights abuses in Yemen, the Times reported. [read post]
2 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
That’s where I have spent my entire career—first as a criminal defense investigator, later as a capital defense and civil rights lawyer, and more recently as an academic. [read post]
10 May 2007, 1:20 am
Rumsfeld, reserving Constitution-based decision in that 2006 case as it ruled that the 2005 statute had not clearly abrogated detainees' habeas rights.Within months Congress responded: included in the Military Commissions Act was a clearer cutoff of habeas rights. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 1:20 pm by Todd Ruger
But right now, Kaersvang, a lawyer with the Civil Division’s appellate staff at Main Justice, might have the most famous homework assignment on the planet. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 9:05 pm by J.S. Nelson
Second, there is a thin line in U.S. corporate enforcement between civil and criminal liability. [read post]
12 May 2017, 12:45 pm
We will continue to do so.[17]Civil society became more vocally critical of the UNGP project after 2012,[18] as did some influential legal academics.[19] Some thought that this criticism would be the basis for efforts to guide the operationalization of the UNGP.[20] Instead, this criticism ultimately became a call for a comprehensive treaty on business and human rights shortly after the UNGP endorsement, one built around the core group of civil society that had been most… [read post]
Despite all this, the Obama administration has so far declined to acknowledge Khaled's wrongful detention and abuse, and State Department lawyers have yet to respond to his petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, filed over six years ago. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 7:52 am by Steve Vladeck
I have been rather critical in the past of the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR)—the intermediate appellate court Congress created in 2006 to sit between the Guantánamo military commissions and the U.S. [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 7:09 am by John Jascob
In support of the motion, the commissioners point out that the district court has required their presence at the stayed evidentiary hearing, plans to question them, read them their Miranda rights, and will subject them to cross-examination, with a possible criminal contempt referral to the U.S. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 10:01 pm
The arrival of a Leap Year also augurs the onset of 2 quadrennial events: a new U.S. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 5:26 am by Heidi Henson
U.S. agencies with responsibilities for enforcing equal employment opportunity laws — the EEOC, the OFCCP and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division — have long relied on detailed information that is obtained from employers on employment in job groups by gender and race/ethnicity for identifying the possibility of discriminatory practices. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
The Biden administration needs to act quickly to right the balance between civil rights and theocracy. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 5:11 am by Gerard Magliocca
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury.[1] Marbury v. [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 9:07 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Learn more about U.S. sanctioned torture and other civil liberty issues: Sign up for breaking news alerts, follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook. [read post]