A national trucking company has agreed to pay $260,000 to settle discrimination complaints by four Sikh drivers who were denied jobs for refusing to take drug tests that would have violated their religious beliefs. J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. reached ...
Read More »Nephew in ‘Making a Murderer’ ordered released
A man whose homicide conviction was overturned in a case profiled in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” could be celebrating Thanksgiving at home with his family in Wisconsin after a judge Monday ordered him released from prison. Brendan Dassey’s ...
Read More »Opponents of large mid-Missouri hog farm back in court
A group trying to stop a large hog farm from opening in mid-Missouri will be back in court Monday asking a judge to void a state permit for the project. Friends of Responsible Agriculture has been fighting for two years ...
Read More »Kansas Supreme Court to take up cases fueling ouster efforts
Now that Kansas voters have decided against removing any state Supreme Court justices, the court will turn its attention to cases involving education funding, capital punishment and abortion that led critics to try to remake the court. Efforts to remove ...
Read More »Lawyers file motion to delay Trump University trial
Donald Trump’s attorneys filed a motion to delay until after the presidential inauguration a class-action fraud lawsuit involving the president-elect and his now-defunct Trump University. In the motion filed Saturday evening in San Diego federal court, Trump’s lawyer Daniel Petrocelli ...
Read More »False witness: US judge tackles mistaken identifications
Talena Johnson was sure she knew the man who shot her. She was wrong, and George Cortez was sent off to prison for life. His lookalike brother now admits shooting Johnson and killing her friend outside her north Philadelphia child ...
Read More »Founding Fathers distrusted popular vote to pick a president
The fact that Hillary Clinton most likely won the U.S. popular vote but won’t be president has some people wondering, “Wait, why do we do it this way?” Thank — or blame — the Founding Fathers for creating the possibility ...
Read More »Trump could reshape Justice Department’s civil rights focus
A Donald Trump administration could radically reshape the Justice Department, particularly civil rights efforts that became one of its most pressing and high-profile priorities over the past eight years. The department, under the Obama administration and the country’s first two ...
Read More »Trump lawyers to begin settlement talks on Trump University
Donald Trump’s attorneys on Thursday agreed to enter settlement talks in a class-action fraud lawsuit involving the president-elect and his now-defunct Trump University, raising the possibility of a quick end to the 6 ½-year-old case just before it goes to ...
Read More »Spending yields mixed results in fight for state high courts
Millions of dollars in campaign spending produced mixed results for the conservative and liberal groups seeking to sway state supreme courts around the country. In some of the toughest races this year, for example, justices in Washington and Kansas retained ...
Read More »‘Not my president:’ Trump denounced in protests across US
A day after Donald Trump’s election to the presidency, campaign divisions appeared to widen as many thousands of demonstrators — some with signs declaring “NOT MY PRESIDENT” — flooded streets across the country to protest his surprise triumph. From New ...
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