PENDLETON — A Milton-Freewater man was sentenced to 70 months in prison on Friday, Jan. 29, for a 2019 stabbing, according to a press release from the Umatilla County District
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AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Appellate attorney D. Todd Smith has joined Butler Snow LLP, strengthening the firm s already impressive appellate and written advocacy practice in Austin and Texas, as well as continuing the growth of the firm s Austin office.
D. Todd Smith Joins Butler Snow’s Appellate Group
Appellate attorney D. Todd Smith has joined Butler Snow LLP.
Smith comes to Butler Snow with 25 years of experience representing clients as lead appellate counsel and working with trial teams in all phases of civil litigation. He is a well-respected member of the Austin Bar and Texas appellate community, having presented multiple cases before the Texas Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Speech Org. Settles With U of Illinois About Bias Response
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Speech First, a national organization that advocates for student free speech, settled a lawsuit on Tuesday, in which the group challenged a number of bias-related policies at the campus. The settlement narrowly allows both the university and Speech First to avoid taking the matter to the United States Supreme Court; Speech First planned to request this week that the court review the case, according to the settlement agreement document filed in an Illinois district court.
The lawsuit took aim at practices by the university’s bias response team and protocol for bias incidents in campus residence halls, arguing that they violated students’ First Amendment rights. Speech First also challenged a requirement that students receive university approval before posting and distributing literature that promotes political candidates for “non-campus elections,” which has
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Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights lawyer acclaimed for his work confronting bias against the poor and people of color in the U.S. justice system, will deliver the address at MIT’s 2021 Commencement exercises on Friday, June 4.
Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama, which has won legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults.
Stevenson has argued and won multiple cases at the United States Supreme Court, including a 2019 ruling protecting condemned prisoners who suffer from dementia and a landmark 2012 ruling that banned mandatory life-imprisonment-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger. He and his staff have won reversals, relief, or release from prison for over 135 wrongly condemned priso
Rosa Parks honored with free transit rides on Thursday February 04 2021
TriMet has declared Feb. 4 to be Rosa Parks Equity Day and all regional bus, train and streetcar rides are free.
All rides on TriMet are free Thursday, Feb. 4, in honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
Fares will not be collected on buses, MAX, WES or LIFT during the first annual Rosa Parks Equity Day. Transit partners Portland Streetcar and C-TRAN are joining the regional transit agency and not collecting fares.
Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She is best known for refusing to give up a seat on a bus reserved for white people on Dec. 1, 1955, in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. That led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and resulted in a United States Supreme Court decision that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Just over a year after Parks act of defiance, city officials were ordered to desegregate Montgomery s buses and Rosa Parks sealed her place in U.S. history.