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A little more than two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justices Civil Rights Division came to Marion County and interviewed scores of people, wanting to know about the conditions at Lowell Correctional Institution, a state prison for women. Before leaving, they visited the prison and gathered additional information. For several years before the governments investigation, inmates past and present have bitterly complained about their treatment at Lowell, which is off Gainesville Road in northw...

Mark Alden Branch ’86 Yale’s undergraduate admissions office personnel say they do not discriminate against white or Asian American applicants. View full image In early October, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Yale for alleged discrimination of Asian American and white applicants. Citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the assistant attorney general of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division—Eric Dreiband—claimed that Yale is “discriminating on the basis of race and national orig...

Justice Department Defends Health Care Workers from Being Forced to Perform Abortions Details Written by IVN Burlington, Vermont - The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit in Vermont federal court against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) for violating the federal anti-discrimination statute known as the “Church Amendments.” That statute prohibits health care entities like UVMMC from discriminating against he...

Justice Department Files Race Discrimination Lawsuit Against Housing Authority in Oklahoma Published: 20 December 2020 20 December 2020 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Housing Authority of the Town of Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, along with its former employees, David Haynes and Myrna Hess, violated the Fair Housing Act and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when they denied housing to an African-American applic...

Neo-Nazi sentenced for plot against journalists, activists Johnny Roman Garza, 21, a member of the Neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, was sentenced Wednesday, December 9, 2020, to 16 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in a plot to threaten and intimidate journalists and advocates who worked to expose anti-Semitism. Garza previously pled guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to conspiring with other Atomwaffen members to commit...

Justice Department Reaches Major Olmstead Settlement Agreement with North Dakota Published: 20 December 2020 20 December 2020 Washington, DC - The Justice Department Monday announced a settlement agreement with the State of North Dakota under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The agreement resolves complaints alleging that North Dakota unnecessarily institutionalizes individuals with disabilities in nursing facilities, instead of providing them the services they need to live in the...

Justice Department sues Vermont medical center over abortion 12/18/2020 at 6:17 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White By Wilson Ring, AP, December 17, 2020 The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against the University of Vermont Medical Center alleging it forces staff members who object to abortion on religious grounds to participate in abortion procedures. The Vermont lawsuit alleges the Burlington hospital violated the Church Amendment, which prevents hospitals from discr...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. The Justice Department filed a civil suit against the University of Vermont Medical Center for allegedly "deceptively misleading" and "forcing" a nurse to perform an abortion despite having a conflict with the procedure due to her religious beliefs.  The suit filed in Vermont federal court on Wednesday accuses the UVM hospital of violating the federal anti-discrimination statute known as the "Church Amendments." ...

Vermont Hospital Under Fire For Forcing Nurse To Do Abortion Despite Religious Beliefs Fetus under 18 weeks also feel termination pain Pixabay Abortion is a sensitive issue anywhere though there are regions where it is allowed. However, there is due diligence needed for hospitals carrying out, including the federal anti-discrimination statute known better as “Chuch Amendments.” This is a sensitive issue that the University of Vermont Medical Center is facing. The Justice Department filed ...

17 Dec 2020 The Trump administration announced Wednesday its enforcement of federal conscience protection laws with regard to the funding of, and participation in, abortions. Vice President Mike Pence hosted a “Life Is Winning” event at the White House, during which HHS made the announcement of enforcement of the conscience protection laws. Pence said in his remarks at the event: I believe what we have demonstrated over these past four years is that when men and women who cherish the sancti...