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10 Feb 2013, 6:08 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
The second is a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) press release announcing the filing of a civil complaint against a promoter and two LLCs alleging a scam involving over 250 Chinese investors reportedly duped into entrusting a total of $155 million in the hopes of gaining U.S. permanent residency under the EB-5 employment-creation immigrant visa category. [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 2:12 pm by Steve Vladeck
Although the Supreme Court has upheld non-Article III federal courts for cases “arising in the land or naval forces,” it has consistently understood that authority to encompass only those criminal prosecutions that may constitutionally be pursued through court-martial or military commission. [read post]
8 Feb 2013, 8:36 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
From the MCRC: Later this morning, the Michigan Department of Civil Rights will file a complaint with the United States Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) on behalf of all present and future students who are, are descended from, or otherwise self-identify as American Indians. [read post]
8 Feb 2013, 5:14 am by Benjamin Wittes
But what about U.S. citizen enemy fighters who were not residents or nationals of an actual or, as in the Civil War, de facto foreign power? [read post]
7 Feb 2013, 2:17 pm
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently amended a lawsuit against a restaurant alleging sexual harassment, retaliation, and disparate treatment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 9:40 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Civil Rights lawyers have filed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department, and alleged the latter’s unlawful surveillance of Muslim communities in the City. [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]
5 Feb 2013, 9:48 am by Lebowitz & Mzhen
A substantial percentage of Medicare claims made by for-profit nursing homes were found to be “improper,” according to a report issued late last year by the U.S. [read post]
30 Jan 2013, 9:54 am by Greg Mersol
Horton,   the agreement did not bar all concerted action—under the agreement employees had the right to file a complaint with administrative bodies such as the U.S. [read post]
27 Jan 2013, 10:18 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  Known as the Paycheck Fairness Act, the bill asserts that, “In many instances, the pay disparities can only be due to continued intentional discrimination or the lingering effects of past discrimination”—this, nearly half a century after the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 11:11 am
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to launch an investigation, which in turn produced evidence that the company had a practice or pattern of violating the civil rights of its female workers. [read post]
24 Jan 2013, 4:41 am by Heidi Henson
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a coalition of civil rights and civil liberties groups has sent a letter to the U.S. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 3:57 am by Heidi Henson
., a Charlotte, North Carolina-based provider of private security and public safety services, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by subjecting male employees to sexual harassment, the U.S. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 4:00 am by Guest Blogger
Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) on peer-to-peer violence and bullying in schools. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 7:46 pm by Lyle Denniston
Wolfson of the Washington office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, for the Florida agency (20 minutes), and Deputy U.S. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
State, 744 A.2d 864 (Vt. 1999), that led to adoption of the first “civil unions” law in the U.S. [read post]