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A federal appellate court has upheld race-based admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia, saying that it does not discriminate against Asian students.

A federal court upheld a racial balancing admissions policy at the nation's top high school on Tuesday.

A federal appeals court upheld the diversity policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, ruling Tuesday that the plan survives constitutional scrutiny despite cutting Asian American admissions by 26%.

In April 1865, as Ulysses S. Grant and the Union army made their way into the Confederate capital of Richmond, fleeing rebel soldiers set fire to bridges and warehouses. That fire quickly spread out of control and torched huge swaths of Richmond’s downtown business district. After the dust settled, only two buildings were left standing, ...

A person with no intention of visiting Baltimore may sue a city hotel for allegedly failing to state its accommodations for disabled guests, the court ruled.

The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday agreed with a man convicted of fraud that a lower court improperly denied his request to be released from prison at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that it had failed to consider his heightened risk of death or serious illness.

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Federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling likens North Carolina’s prison grievance system to a “real world ‘Catch-22’"

The court held that Title VII’s federal sector provision incorporated its private sector anti-retaliation provision.

RICHMOND, VA, Oct. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kevin S. Elliker, an experienced appellate, complex litigation and government investigations attorney,...