It?s midnight, you suddenly crave a snack, and then you remember that package of yummy honey-baked deli ham in the fridge. You open the fridge door, salivating, but when you extract said package you notice a troubling item on the …
Can Wedding Venues Cite Religious Beliefs to Deny Interracial Couples?
Interracial marriage has been legal nationwide ever since the Supreme Court’s decision Loving v. Virginia in 1967. And same-sex marriage has been legal since 2015’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. But, as many same-sex couples have learned, wedding vendors haven’t been …
Lyft Facing Another Massive Sexual Assault Lawsuit
"One in six women will face some form of sexual violence in their lives — behavior that’s unacceptable for our society and on our platform. As a platform committed to providing safe transportation, we hold ourselves to a higher standard …
Can You Be Deported If You’re Terminally Ill?
Under what’s known as the medical deferred action program, severely ill undocumented immigrants are able to request that their deportation proceedings be delayed while they receive potentially life-saving treatment. Or, at least, they were able to until last month, when …
Fed. Judge OK’s Election Dirty Tricks if Voters Know and Don’t Care
When it comes to elections and corruption in Illinois, the jokes write themselves. ?Vote early, vote often? is the most famous. Most Land of Lincoln residents would approve of the state taking a break from being the butt of the …
Federal Appeals Court Revives Charleston Shooting Victims’ Background Check Lawsuit
Most people agree that mandatory background checks prior to firearm purchases are a good thing. But that’s assuming they work. Two months before he massacred nine people in a Charleston church, Dylann Roof purchased the .45-caliber Glock pistol he used …
Do You Have to Use a Voting Machine?
The problems with electronic voting machines have been well documented. "Georgia’s current voting equipment, software, election and voter databases, are antiquated, seriously flawed, and vulnerable to failure, breach, contamination, and attack," a federal court recently ruled, ordering the state to ditch …
Can Students Get Punished for Reporting Sexual Assault?
"Nobody likes a tattletale." While that might’ve been appropriate advice for kindergarteners decades ago, it’s not what you say to victims of sexual assault here and now. But according to a lawsuit filed in Georgia, that’s what high school administrators …
Federal Court OKs LGBT Discrimination by Wedding Videographers
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission was impermissibly hostile to a baker’s religious beliefs when it found him in violation of the state’s anti-discrimination laws for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a …
What Is the International Emergency Economic Powers Act?
Another day, another assertion of executive authority. "For all of the Fake News Reporters that don’t have a clue as to what the law is relative to Presidential powers, China, etc.," President Trump tweeted Friday, "try looking at the Emergency …