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Lake Geneva City Council members proposed to reduce speed limit on area of Highway 50/Main Street from 40 miles per hour to 30 miles per hour, after initially recommending to ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday detailed a set of rules for when certain local actions by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can be heard by regional courts or when they need to be heard at t… ...
A federal appeals court in New York wrangled Wednesday with President Donald Trump’s claim that his hush money conviction should be reviewed by federal courts and seemed open to the idea that ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the nation’s anti-discrimination laws apply equally to all employees, regardless of whether those complaining of bias are white or Black, gay ...
A unanimous Supreme Court made it easier to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn’t get a job and was demoted because she is straight.
The ruling from the Supreme Court makes it easier to pursue claims of reverse discrimination in 20 states and the District of Columbia that are covered by federal courts of appeals that still ...
At issue in the case was a legal standard used by some federal circuit courts that impose a higher bar to prove discrimination on people who are heterosexual, white, and/or male than on minorities ...
Indeed, Ames is such a straightforward case that it is baffling that the 6th Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule, which has existed in some courts since 1981, survived as long as it did.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services merely revives Ames’ reverse discrimination suit and doesn’t delve into the actual merits of the case.