WASHINGTON (Reuters) The Biden administration this week is expected to propose a ban on menthol cigarettes, a move backed by civil rights groups that say Black Americans are hurt by the industry s aggressive targeting of the product, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
The administration will seek to ban menthol and other flavors in mass-produced cigars, the newspaper reported, citing unidentified administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration faces a Thursday court deadline to respond to a 2013 citizen s petition seeking a ban on menthols. Public health groups filed a lawsuit last year in federal district court in Northern California to require the FDA to respond to the petition.
Gov. Tim Walz has been given yet another batch of finalists to fill the seat of a retiring District Court judge.
On April 15, the state’s Judicial Selection Commission recommended three finalists for Walz to consider as the replacement for 10th Judicial District Court Judge Kathleen A. Mottl.
Here are the finalists the commission offered to the governor:
Amy Reed-Hall, an assistant Anoka County Attorney who prosecutes adult felony cases, with an emphasis on cases of abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults. She is a member of the Anoka County Elder Abuse Community Response Committee and Anoka County Vulnerable Adult Multi-Disciplinary Team. She also is active with the Minnesota Elder Justice Center and is part of a team that trains Minnesota agencies to investigate elder abuse and neglect.
For Brooklyn Center, a civil rights settlement could be crushing
For Brooklyn Center, a civil rights settlement could be crushing Insurance limits and lack of funds are not a defense that will shelter Brooklyn Center or any city from multimillion-dollar judgments, legal scholars say. April 24, 2021 6:08pm Text size Copy shortlink:
It s the excruciating calculus that inevitably follows a fatal police shooting.
Families file federal civil rights lawsuits, and local governments must either negotiate with grieving loved ones to compensate them for a life lost or allow a jury to decide damages.
Minneapolis set records with the $20 million settlement paid to Justine Ruszczyk Damond s family in 2019 and the $27 million settlement paid to George Floyd s next of kin in March, hailed as the largest pretrial settlement in a civil rights wrongful-death lawsuit in U.S. history.
April 25, 2021
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd last week, a relief for generations of Black Americans, who, like myself, had witnessed similar tragedies fall well short of any sort of just, equitable conclusion.
And yet, it seems that reaching the mountaintop has made visible a much larger mountain: turning verdicts like those reached in Chauvin’s case into a regular occurrence for cases of police officers who shoot and often kill Black Americans with impunity. Those who do are overwhelmingly shielded from legal action, and those who are tried rarely see jail time.
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