Will the Supreme Court overrule farmworker union rights?
David Bacon
Not long before Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed suit against California’s farmworker access rule in federal court on behalf of two companies Cedar Point Nursery in Siskiyou County and the Fowler Packing Company in Fresno.
The foundation is a conservative-libertarian group that holds property rights sacred and campaigns against racial equity. It fought hard for the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the high court.
The access regulation, which took effect after the passage of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act in 1975, allows union organizers to come onto a grower’s property in the morning before work to talk with workers. According to the labor board’s handbook, “The access regulations of the Agricultural Labor Relations Board are meant to ensure that farmworkers, who often may be contacted only at their workplace, have an opportunity to be informed with
Waldron v. Cooper suit show the case’s new emphasis. The case will focus exclusively now on challenging the governor’s authority to issue executive orders that shuttered some private bars completely for nearly a year.
Club 519 and owner Crystal Waldron filed suit against Cooper in December. At that time, the suit focused on Cooper’s executive orders that forced the Greenville bar to shut down last March. Multiple Cooper orders forced Club 519 and many other private bars to remain closed for almost a year, even as the governor allowed other types of bars across the state to reopen during the course of the coronavirus pandemic.
Ninth Circuit Orders New Trial in Criminal Dumping Case courthousenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courthousenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Black Conservatives Tell Supreme Court: Race Not the Issue in Voting Rights Case
3 Mar 2021
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard arguments Tuesday on the legal challenge to two voting laws in Arizona that challengers claim discriminate against racial minorities. But Project 21, a black leadership network, issued remarks to the press warning that race is not the issue in the case.
According to the SCOTUS website, the issues before the court are:
(1) Whether Arizona’s out-of-precinct policy, which does not count provisional ballots cast in person on Election Day outside of the voter’s designated precinct, violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act; and (2) whether Arizona’s ballot-collection law, which permits only certain persons (i.e., family and household members, caregivers, mail carriers and elections officials) to handle another person’s completed early ballot, violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act or the 15th Amendment.
President Trump Expected to Shrink Bears Ears by as Much as 90 Percent - William P J Lynch Jr com wpjljr.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wpjljr.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.