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The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced its own investigation into CoreCivic’s practices following years of “reports of physical assaults, sexual assaults, murders and [an] unchecked flow of contraband and severe staffing shortages.”
“Young adults like Plaintiff, were often sent to Defendants’ [sic] under misleading pretenses and under the guise that the program provided adequate mental health treatment,” the lawsuit alleges.
“Congress adopted the National Voter Registration Act’s quiet period restriction to prevent error-prone, eleventh-hour efforts that all too often disenfranchise qualified voters,” Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in a statement. “The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy and the Justice Department will continue to ensure that the rights of qualified voters are protected.”
“The above excerpts show that the judge exhibits a sustained pattern, over the course of months and numerous hearings, of disrespect for the Defendants and their counsel, but no such attitude toward the Plaintiffs’ counsel,” the appeals court wrote. “The judge’s demeanor exhibits a ‘high degree of antagonism,’ calling into doubt at least ‘the appearance of fairness’ for the state Defendants.”
“As an undocumented undergraduate student at the University of California, I experienced firsthand the pain and difficulty of being denied the right to on-campus employment,” plaintiff Jeffry Umana Munoz said in a statement. “Losing these opportunities forced me to extremely precarious and dangerous living situations, always moments from housing and food insecurity.”
TikTok purportedly calculated how long it takes most users to form a habit: the length of about 260 videos, equating to a just over a half-hour.
“The underlying constitutional question this case raises has become the focus of intense public debate: How should the government balance the rights of transgender individuals to be free from discrimination in places of public accommodation with the rights of religious business owners when they are operating in the public market?” Justice Melissa Hart wrote in the court’s majority opinion.
“The financial burden of college cannot be overstated in today’s world, and we believe our antitrust attorneys have uncovered a major influence on the rising cost of higher education,” said Hagens Berman managing partner and co-founder Steve Berman.
“[The riot] was under control very quickly,” said Prisoners Legal Services of Massachusetts attorney David Milton. “Nevertheless […] there was a weeks-long campaign we called the ‘Retaliatory Violence Campaign’ in which 100 prisoners were brutalized and subjected to all manner of extreme and malicious force—not for any legitimate security purpose, but to punish everyone for the actions of a couple people involved in assaulting the officers.”
“The UAW acted in bad faith by disregarding this language, filing sham grievances and calling a strike authorization vote to pressure Stellantis to proceed with planned investments,” the company said in its lawsuit.