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By: Jennifer Korn  After a three-year legal battle between the East Ramapo School District and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld its ruling that the district violated Section Two of the Voting Rights Act. The court agreed that there was sufficient evidence of both racially polarized voting and the district board’s favoritism of private schools over public schools.  According to the case documents, district board members ...

by Stephen Chapman It comes following a “steady rise” in complaints about the welfare of guests. The safeguards come following consultation with broadcasters, programme-makers, healthcare professionals, and former programme participants and their representatives. “People taking part in TV and radio programmes deserve to be properly looked after,” said Adam Baxter, Ofcom’s Director of Standards and Audience Protection. “Our new protections set a clear standard of care for broadcaster...

The suit claims Google is in violation of the Section Two of the Sherman Act, by engaging in "anti-competitive conduct" through a series of contracts and other harmful conduct. By doing so, Google is keeping competition from arising that could possibly provide better service and privacy to customers, the suit says.  It is the third anti-trust lawsuit brought against the search engine in the past two months, TribLive reported. The attorneys general lawsuits build on an earlier anti-trust c...

TO: G & CB ENTERPRISES, LLC TAKE NOTICE that the property taxes for the year 2018 are unpaid on the property hereinafter described and that this proceeding is for the collection of said unpaid taxes or the sale of said property to satisfy the unpaid property taxes. In the above-styled cause, it appearing from the return of the Sheriff on the original summons or from the return of the summons by certified mail that said defendants are not to be found and that after search and inquiry cannot be l...

The second ruling handed down was on proposition 8. they decided that the petitioners didnt have standing. your take on both of these, stir. >> not shocked with either one, actually. i think in the defense of marriage act case, important to realize what was at stake was just the one provision, which is if a state allows the same-sex marriage, same-sex couples to marry, they are to be given benefi benefits under federal benefits rules. a federalist argument, it should be up to the states in the f...

>> because we have nanny state and people in the federal government want to know about your personal life to legislate about them down the road. >> does the government have the right to ask this stuff? isnt there a basic right to privacy, which says i dont have to tell you, even though its not going to kill me to stay it, but i have a certain sense of personal dignity i dont want the government to come across the threshold of my front door? >> two issues here. first, does the government have the...

>> because we have nanny state and people in the federal government want to know about your personal life to legislate about them down the road. >> does the government have the right to ask this stuff? isnt there a basic right to privacy, which says i dont have to tell you, even though its not going to kill me to stay it, but i have a certain sense of personal dignity i dont want the government to come across the threshold of my front door? >> two issues here. first, does the government have the...