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Federal Appeals Court Says White Restaurant Owner Who ‘Enslaved’ Intellectually Disabled Black Man Owes Double the Damages Initially Imposed Jerry Lambe © Provided by Law & Crime Bobby Paul Edwards mugshot A federal appeals court ruled that a wWhite restaurant owner who forced an intellectually disabled Black man into slave labor owes more than $500,000 in restitution, double the amount initially imposed by a lower district court. Bobby Paul Edwards, 56, pleaded guilty to...

April 29, 2021 at 1:43 PM Shares1 It’s not exactly news to point out that Jones Day operates like a cartoonishly evil law firm stereotype. From shady deals to gerrymander the South to disingenuous assaults on voting rights to… some interesting discrimination claims, the firm revels in its dastardly reputation. Wait, go back to that discrimination allegation… pointing guns at paralegals?!?! Obviously that’s not been tested in court yet, but it’s telling that given the firm, we all resp...

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal addresses the media as he announces the Immigration Trust Directive, at the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal at Liberty State Park in November 2018. Photo: USA Today Network via Reuters Connect The attorney general of New Jersey announced Tuesday that the state has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Jackson Township for discrimination against its Jewish community. The complaint, filed by Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and the Division on Civil ...

ILLUSTRATION BY SAM GREEN It’s hard to find someone in Washington who doesn’t like Merrick Garland. There are Republicans who don’t like Barack Obama and accordingly blocked the former president from elevating Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016. There are Republicans who don’t like Joe Biden and don’t want to see him, through Garland, reshape the Justice Department into something less Trumpian than it became over the past four years. But the list of people who don’t actually like ...

Andrew HarnikGetty Images The Senate Judiciary Committee, Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) presiding, heard from two administration nominees for critical positions in the Department of Justice. Todd Kim was nominated to be Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources. But he wasn’t the main event. That was Kristen Clarke, whom the administration wants to be the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Done correctly, this position is where all the hottest issues of the...

Satish Kartan and his wife, Sharmistha Barai, were found guilty of conspiracy to obtain forced labour. WASHINGTON – An Indian-American from California has been sentenced to 188 months in prison for forced labour violations and ordered to pay $15,657 in restitution to three victims, in part to cover their back wages and other losses, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday. The 46-year-old Satish Kartan and his wife, Sharmistha Barai (40), were found guilty of conspiracy to obtain forced...

NeverTrumpers back radical DOJ nominee There are two types of NeverTrumpers. The first type hates Trump, but that hatred doesn’t cause them to abandon long-held conservative principles. The second type’s hatred of Trump leads them to shift positions on matters of policy. Bret Stephens is an example of the first type, I think. Max Boot and Jennifer Rubin are extreme examples of the second. I had assumed that Bill Krisol and Mona Charen, both long-time stalwarts of the conservative movement, ...

The other day, I suggested that Andrew Cuomo and/or members of his staff may have violated up to three federal criminal statutes in connection with a Justice Department request for information about nursing home deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus in New York. Now comes word that the FBI and the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York have opened an investigation into Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes and

By DJ 33 1/3 Feb 17, 2021 Two men are accused of posing as U.S. marshals to get out of wearing masks at the Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort. Walter Wayne Brown Jr., 53, and Gary Brummett, 81, were arrested on charges of impersonating a federal officer. Both men flashed fake badges to hotel employees when asked to wear a facial covering and threatened to have employees arrested. Brummett also showed employees a laminated card that stated he was medically exempt from wearing one. Employees became...

Alabama is asking a judge to dismiss a Justice Department lawsuit over state prison conditions, arguing the incidents of violence cited in the case do not rise to the level of a constitutional violation.