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PHILADELPHIA – A trio of Philadelphia parents have brought a class action lawsuit against the School District of Philadelphia and numerous officials in its employ, charging that their children were denied admission to criteria-based schools due to the District’s allegedly discriminatory policies centered on race.

The St. Louis County Law Library has a new name and a new location. Rededicated Tuesday as the "Alan Mitchell Law Library," this public resource has moved from a cramped room on the fifth floor of the St. Louis County Courthouse in Duluth to a gr...

PHILADELPHIA – The Pennsylvania Unified Certification Program has reversed the City of Philadelphia’s decision to decertify Devault Group, Inc. as a disadvantaged business enterprise, the center point of litigation between the company, the City and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

PHILADELPHIA – A Bucks County trucking firm now seeks a preliminary injunction to prevent the City of Philadelphia and the U.S. Department of Transportation from revoking its certification to qualify as a “Disadvantaged Business Enterprise.”

Plaintiffs who claimed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) debt relief program associated with a COVID-19 pandemic aid bill was a breach of

Tom Vilsack, secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, filed a reply in a Northern District of Texas lawsuit on Tuesday to the preliminary

Agriculture your username 17 hours ago In response to the United States Department of Agriculture’s filing explaining to the plaintiffs and the court that it is continuing setting up an embattled loan forgiveness program despite it being halted by injunctions in three separate lawsuits, plaintiffs in the Northern District of Texas lawsuit filed a sur-reply claiming that the USDA sending a letter would cause them injury.  The plaintiffs are a group of white farmers who claimed the loan forgiv...

Agriculture your username 6 hours ago Tom Vilsack, secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, filed a reply in a Northern District of Texas lawsuit on Tuesday to the preliminary injunction granted in favor of the plaintiffs. Vilsack explained that although the court, and at least two others addressing similar lawsuits, have halted the USDA program, it is continuing to take steps to set up the loan forgiveness program for farmers and ranchers of minority races.  The lawsuit was filed by S...

Agriculture your username 7 hours ago Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), opposed a preliminary injunction on a loan forgiveness program for socially disadvantaged farmers, or farmers of minority groups, on Friday. The defendant supported the loan program and argued that it addresses a history of discrimination and that the claims from the five white farmers are not sufficient for the relief they seek.  The aid program, outlined in Section 1005 of the ...

The National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) and the Association of American Indian Farmers (AAIF) filed a conditional motion to intervene in a lawsuit