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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: WHAT: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction barring the Government from enforcing portions of Executive Order (EO) 13950, Executive Order on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping. The injunction covers EO 13950 sections that imposed limits on diversity and inclusion training by federal contractors (Section 4) and federal grantees (Section 5). The court found these restrictio...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On December 22, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a nationwide preliminary injunction banning the enforcement of Executive Order 13950, which seeks to prohibit purported "stereotyping" and "scapegoating" based on race and sex in workplace trainings provided by federal government contractors, or by recipients of federal grants. In its ruling, the cour...

on Dec. 22. Mumia Abu-Jamal, the prison journalist long known as the “voice of the voiceless” for his compelling writings and short audio tapes, moved a step closer to getting a chance for a reconsideration of his earliest appeal of his conviction — an allegedly flawed Post-Conviction Relief Act hearing in 1995 – as well as three other later PCRA appeals of aspects of his case, all ignored and their findings rejected by Pennsylvania’s appellate courts under spurious conditions. The op...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 22, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a nationwide preliminary injunction banning the enforcement of Executive Order 13950, which seeks to prohibit purported “stereotyping” and “scapegoating” based on race and sex in workplace trainings provided by federal government contractors, or by recipients of federal grants. In its ruling, the court held that Section 4 of the execut...

Massachusetts Taxes New Hampshire Residents; New Hampshire Goes to Supreme Court Backed by 14 other states, New Hampshire is suing Massachusetts because the Bay State is taxing New Hampshire residents who work remotely in their home state for employers located in Massachusetts, a practice that New Hampshire says is unlawful. “Massachusetts’ current position is a far cry from our country’s rallying call of ‘no taxation without representation,’—which they seem to have forgotten origin...

State supreme court rejects Faulkner widow’s ‘evidence-free’ effort to block Mumia appeal Its a new chance to challenge the murder conviction. Mumia Abu-Jamal, the prison journalist long known as the “voice of the voiceless” for his compelling writings and short audio tapes about life behind bars, moved a step closer to getting a chance for a reconsideration of his earliest appeal of his conviction — an allegedly flawed Post-Conviction Relief Act hearing in 19...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. New Hampshire Files Bill of Complaint Against Massachusetts and Five New SALT Petitions Filed with The Court On October 29, 2020, the State of New Hampshire brought an action before the Court against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts seeking to enjoin Massachusetts from enforcing its new telecommuting regulation against New Hampshire residents, in New Hampshire v. Commonwealth of Massachusett...

How Limiting Are the Limitations on Mandatory Employer Vaccination? USA December 22 2020 This week, the EEOC approved employers requiring employees to receive COVID-19 vaccination, subject to limitations. How limiting are the limitations? Case law applying them is thin, but generally treats them as narrow. In fact, an argument is taking shape that employers actually have a duty to require the vaccination of certain employees. Constitutional and additional statutory limitations arise if governme...

Trending Articles: US Police have stolen $68 billion in the past 20 years from American citizens without due process Published: December 21, 2020 The nonprofit Institute for Justice has just released the 3rd edition of its Policing For Profit report, examining the abuses of civil asset forfeiture by local police across the United States. According to their data, local police departments have seized more than $68 billion dollars worth of personal property without due process over the las...

Columbus, OH – On Friday, The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in New Hampshire v. Massachusetts calling on the court to protect Granite Staters from unconstitutional taxation by its neighbor—Massachusetts.  “The Due Process Clause in the U.S. Constitution is clear and requires a government to have some jurisdiction over the person or the thing that it seeks to tax,” said Jay R. Carson, senior litigator with The Buckeye Institute’s Legal Center. “D...