Jury Awards $20M For Employment Discrimination By American Family
A jury in Missouri awarded more than $20 million to Debbie Miller as compensation for age and gender discrimination and retaliation by her employer.
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California Won’t Enforce Employee Contracts With Out-of-State Law
This is good news for California employees, who won’t be forced to bear the additional expense and inconvenience of resolving employment disputes in another state.
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Some prosecutors place winning ahead of justice. When prosecutors withhold evidence that could help innocent defendants avoid a conviction, nobody wins.
→ Read MoreUnderstanding the Stop-and-Frisk Debate: What You Need to Know
To understand stop-and-frisk in the larger context of race relations and crime control, it is important to understand what stop-and-frisk means and what courts have said about it.
→ Read MoreDo Bail Schedules Discriminate Against the Poor?
The United States Constitution prohibits the government from setting excessive bail when individuals are charged with a crime. Bail gives meaning to the presumption of innocence by assuring that people do not serve sentences before they are convicted.rn
→ Read MoreHow to Seal Criminal Records in Colorado
Sealing records is not the same thing as expunging records. Expungement means your records are destroyed. If your case gets sealed, law enforcement, the court and criminal justice agencies can still access your records; however they will not be visible to the public.
→ Read MoreCourt Upholds Ban on Federal Interference with Medical Marijuana Laws
A conflict between state and federal law has long bedeviled patients who rely on medical marijuana and the clinics that supply them with their drug.
→ Read MoreIs South Carolina's “Disturbing Schools” Law Unconstitutional?
South Carolina makes it unlawful for anyone “to disturb in any way or in any place the students or teachers of any school” or “to act in an obnoxious manner” on school property. It is difficult to imagine any student who, at some point during elementary or secondary school, does not disturb another student or behave in a manner that someone might regard as obnoxious.
→ Read MoreCan Alternative Sentencing Combat Prison Overcrowding?
Alternative sentencing may help alleviate prison overcrowding while still delivering a fair punishment for minor crimes such as DUI and drug offenses.rn
→ Read MoreGovernment Cannot Use Warrant to Seize Overseas Emails from Microsoft
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently decided that government officials cannot compel Microsoft to produce a customer’s emails relating to alleged criminal activity.
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