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A federal grand jury in Billings returned an indictment on May 20 charging a Montana man with hate crime and firearm violations for allegedly firing a gun into an individual’s house and threatening the individual with violent, homophobic slurs.

By Michael LucianoMay 3rd, 2021, 5:09 pm   A former restaurant manager who enslaved a cognitively impaired Black man between 2009 and 2014 should pay his victim double the restitution that had been originally determined, says the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Pursuant to a plea deal struck with federal prosecutors in 2019, Bobby Paul Edwards, now 56, agreed to pay John Christopher Smith, now 43, $273,000 in unpaid wages and overtime in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. Ed...

Messenger KUWAIT CITY, April 27: The Criminal Section in the Court of Cassation, headed by Judge Nayef Al-Dahoum, sentenced former Deputy Secretary-General of the SalafiMovement Dr Hakim Al-Mutairi to life imprisonment in absentia in a State Security case dubbed as ‘Gaddafi’s tent leaks’, reports Al-Seyassah daily. Earlier, the State Security Unit at the Ministry of Interior referred Al-Mutairi to the Public Prosecution in relation to information leakage involving former Libyan president...

DOJ Civil Rights Alums Back Kristen Clarke Ahead Of Ugly Confirmation Battle More than 80 former officials are supporting the nomination of Kristen Clarke, a longtime civil rights lawyer who would be the first woman confirmed to the job. More than 80 former Justice Department civil rights officials are backing the nomination of Kristen Clarke to head the storied Civil Rights Division, a key role that will shape the Biden administration’s agenda on issues like policing and voting rights in the...

In an October 2020 judgment the Civil and Criminal Section of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid largely dismissed the brief of appeal filed by the defendant against the convictional judgment, by which the Provincial Court of Madrid had sentenced him to a two-year prison sentence, a fine and payment of the damage compensation and legal costs of private prosecution for the commercialisation of products that infringed Adidas's Community trademarks and designs.

Kristen Clarke (Facebook) Jamaicans are continuing to celebrate the news that another person with Jamaican heritage has been selected for a top-level position in the United States government President-elect, Joe Biden. In a national television address on Thursday, Biden named Kristen Clarke, a daughter of Jamaican immigrants, who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, as Assistant Attorney General for civil rights in the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Clarke will lead the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division...

DELAWARE, United States (CMC) — United States President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday...

Where does Barack Obama really stand on racial issues? Is he the post-racial bipartisan conciliator of his campaign image, or is he the black racial activist depicted in his autobiography? On this issue, for once, Obamas stance is quite clear. Acolytes in the Obama Cult are taught that, when proselytizing over the phone for new converts, they should not answer direct questions about what Obama stands for, other than "hope" and ...