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29 Apr 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The leaders of the House Oversight and Reform and House Administration committees sent letters to election officials in Florida, Arizona, Texas, and Ohio – all Republican-led states – requesting the information while noting their concern about new laws affecting election administration. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 4:52 am by Emma Snell
  Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney urged countries at the U.N. yesterday to focus on international justice for war crimes in Ukraine so evidence does not sit in storage – as it has done for victims of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. [read post]
24 Apr 2022, 3:00 am by Monica Williamson
Most of NAP’s work is a variety of civil legal issues including family law, tribal housing, tribal employment, public benefits, consumer, and education law. [read post]
22 Apr 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Across agencies, the plans included steps like increased coordination with tribal governments, broadening procurement for minority-owned small businesses, and increasing civil rights enforcement. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Selma has become an annual stopover for politicians looking to bolster their civil rights bona fides. [read post]
14 Apr 2022, 2:55 am by INFORRM
You can read about the costs side of the case here in the Law Society Gazette. [read post]
11 Apr 2022, 11:01 am by Monica Williamson
In its 20th year, the IPLP is unique in our approach to legal education in the fields of federal Indian law, tribal law and policy, and Indigenous peoples human rights. [read post]
11 Apr 2022, 6:45 am by Toby Cadman
But a decline in its human rights record in recent years has gone under-noticed by the international community – even as observers warn that human rights abuses, civil society repression, and increasing hate speech all point to a growing risk of atrocity crimes. [read post]
8 Apr 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The hearing held by the panel’s subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights, and civil liberties, largely revolved around how to balance the transparency objectives of FARA and target the law without infringing upon or having a chilling effect on the constitutionally protected activities that the statute regulates. [read post]
6 Apr 2022, 4:41 pm by Russell Knight
Reporting Bad Behavior To The Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Committee After an attorney gets their license to practice law…they must keep it. [read post]
4 Apr 2022, 8:00 am by INFORRM
This followed evidence provided by journalists and lawyers to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee on 31 March 2022 that the impact of SLAPP cases went deeper than court cases, with pre-court intimidation and the threat of costly legal proceedings meaning countless articles never get published. [read post]
31 Mar 2022, 10:51 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  The CROWN Act seeks to protect people of African descent from hair-style based race or national origin discrimination by making discrimination against any individual based on the person’s hair texture or hairstyle, if that hair texture or that hairstyle is commonly associated with a particular race or national origin (including a hairstyle in which hair is tightly coiled or tightly curled, locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros): Prohibited race and national origin… [read post]
29 Mar 2022, 5:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Scribe for the ABA JCEB Annual Agency Meeting with HHS-OCR, Vice Chair of the ABA International Section Life Sciences Committee, current Chair-Elect of the ABA Tort & Insurance Section (TIPS) Medicine and Law Committee, former Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insuran [read post]
29 Mar 2022, 12:28 pm by Benjamin Wittes
This is not a criminal prosecution; this is not even a civil liability suit. [read post]
26 Mar 2022, 6:06 pm
And as for the expectation that a civilized state, even one with imperial ambitions, will not long tolerate such a leader--well history has proven Mr. [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 5:04 am by SHG
And, indeed, it is valuable, although it’s hardly comparable to, say, Thurgood Marshall’s entire legal career being dedicated to civil rights. [read post]
18 Mar 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
At least one American firm and a separate lawyer each recently disclosed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act that they started pro-bono work for Ukrainian government officials since the start of Russia’s invasion. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 11:17 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Noncompliance with these requirements can trigger substantial judgments, civil monetary penalties, program disqualification and exclusion and in some instances criminal or civil prosecution under the False Claims Act and other federal statutes. [read post]
16 Mar 2022, 3:46 pm by Shirin Mori
As documented by human rights organizations, Iran’s security forces, including the Revolutionary Guards and the Ministry of Intelligence, perpetrated gross violations of human rights and crimes under international law, including the unlawful use of lethal force, mass arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances and torture and other ill-treatment to crush the nationwide protests in 2017, 2018, and November 2019. [read post]