Recent Updates
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DEI opponents are using a 1866 Civil Rights law to challenge equity policies
Law Review 01/17/2024Opponents of workplace diversity programs are increasingly banking on a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to challenge equity policies as well as funding to minority-owned businesses.Section 1981 of the act was originally meant to protect forme...
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Fueled by border crossings, a record 3 million cases clog US immigration courts
Law Review 01/15/2024Eight months after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States, a couple in their 20s sat in an immigration court in Miami with their three young children. Through an interpreter, they asked a judge to give them more time to find an attorney to fi...
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Georgia Supreme Court ruling prevents GOP-backed commission
Law Review 11/25/2023Georgia’s state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to approve rules for a new commission to discipline and remove state prosecutors, meaning the commission can’t begin operating.Some Republicans in Georgia want the new commission to disci...
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Biden goes west to talk about his efforts to combat climate change
Law Review 08/07/2023President Joe Biden will travel to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah next week and is expected to talk about his administration’s efforts to combat climate change as the region endures a brutally hot summer with soaring temperatures, the White House...
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US climate law is already turbocharging clean energy technology
Law Review 07/23/2023On a recent day under the July sun, three men heaved solar panels onto the roof of a roomy, two-story house near the banks of the Kentucky River, a few miles upstream from the state capitol where lawmakers have promoted coal for more than a century. ...
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Tennessee can enforce ban on transgender care for minors, court says
Law Review 07/08/2023Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth can go into effect — at least for now — after a federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily reversed a lower court ruling.Last month, a district court judge in Tenness...
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Florida man pleads guilty to threatening poll workers
Law Review 05/11/2023A South Florida man faces up to five years in federal prison for threatening election workers during the August 2022 primary.Joshua David Lubitz, 38, of Sunrise, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Miami federal court to threatening election workers, accordi...
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Senegal’s opposition leader gets suspended jail sentence
Law Review 05/09/2023Senegal’s main opposition leader on Monday was given a six-month suspended prison sentence by an appeals court in the West African nation over a defamation case brought against him by a government minister.The court ruling against Ousmane Sonko...
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US, Mexico agree on tighter immigration policies at border
Law Review 05/01/2023U.S. and Mexican officials have agreed on new immigration policies meant to deter illegal border crossings while also opening up other pathways ahead of an expected increase in migrants following the end of pandemic restrictions next week.Homeland Se...
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Court blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US gov’t workers
Law Review 03/27/2023President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been blocked by a federal appeals court. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, in a decision Thursday, rejected arguments that Biden, as the ...
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German woman risks tougher sentence over Yazidi girl’s death
Law Review 03/08/2023A German appeals court on Thursday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a German convert to Islam who was given 10 years in prison on charges that, as a member of the Islamic State group in Iraq, she allowed a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husba...
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Federal appeals court strikes down domestic violence gun law
Law Review 02/01/2023A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the government can’t stop people who have domestic violence restraining orders against them from owning guns — the latest domino to fall after the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majorit...