The lawsuit was filed by Deshanae L. Brown, who alleges she was subjected to discrimination based on her race, sex, and disability, citing violations of federal and state laws including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.
We think it failed properly to recognise the nature and scope of the positive obligations imposed by Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights to protect the rights of trans and intersex people, and to avoid relegating them to 'an intermediate zone as not quite one gender or the other'.
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* Mark Kelly hires Arnold & Porter to sue Pete Hegseth and the Defense Department for threatening to illegally slash his pension. [ The New Republic] * Jerome Powell hires Williams & Connolly to deal with DOJ threats. [ New York Times] * It's striking that critics of the Maduro capture cite specific text from the Constitution and international treaties, and the Deputy Attorney General cites "nuh uh." [ The Hill]
The Court has not entered judgment on the merits of this case. The earlier ruling dealt only with jurisdiction and simply returned the dispute to state court. Judge Du rejected Kalshi's argument that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 62(a) automatically stops the remand order from taking effect, explaining that rule typically creates a short pause before judgments are enforced, but the court said the earlier decision did not qualify.
On Friday a federal judge dropped two of the four charges against Luigi Mangione the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson making his case no longer eligible for the death penalty. Mangione is accused of killing Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024 on a street in midtown Manhattan as he was walking to his hotel for UnitedHealth Group's annual investor conference.
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This script is based on a theory proposed by Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School. Ackerman's idea is laid out in his 1991 book We The People: Foundations, and is discussed in the second of his Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures of 2006. It's gained prominence since the 2024 election and the wholesale assault on our governmental system by Trump.
A New York federal judge has dismissed murder and weapons charges against Luigi M., accused of killing UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, ruling that prosecutors cannot pursue those counts under federal law. The decision has stripped prosecutors of the ability to seek the death penalty in the federal case, while leaving Mangione facing separate state charges. Who has issued the ruling? US District Judge Margaret M. Garnett issued the decision on Friday in federal court in Manhattan.
