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There is a fine line between free speech and voter intimidation to be discussed when it comes to wearing political “items” in or outside a polling station. According to the Minnesota Voters Alliance the law pertaining to what to wear when voting needs to be either redrawn or clarified. Every state has a law creating…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is on the receiving end of litigation filed by nine local government, health care and oversight organizations stemming from the Trump Administration’s recent termination of financial grants funding the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP). That initiative, designed to last five years, is an Obama-era program established…
The future of the last abortion clinic in Ohio’s fourth largest city has been up in the air since February 6, when the Ohio Supreme Court ruled it violated state laws. In 1986, Ohio enacted legislation requiring certain medical facilities to have an emergency transfer agreement with a local hospital without defining the word “local.”…
Last December, several plaintiffs unsuccessfully attempted to sue President Trump over the bond between his presidency and his financial empire. Federal district judge, George Daniels, dismissed the claims that President Trump is violating the Emoluments Clause. Daniels determined the plaintiffs’ lawsuit was invalid because the Foreign Emoluments Clause can only be acted on by Congress…
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed fraud charges against three virtual currency companies alleging they defrauded customers and violated trading rules involving cryptocurrency investments. The CFTC accused Entrepreneurs Headquarters Ltd., CabbageTech and an unnamed bitcoin operator of financially harming investors by engaging in fraud, misrepresentation and misappropriation of funds. The agency filed lawsuits…
Louisiana death row inmate, 44-year-old, Robert McCoy, was convicted of a triple murder in 2011. McCoy has asked for a new trial because he argues that his constitutional rights, specifically the ability to mount his own defense, have been violated. The legal question is not whether McCoy’s right to legal representation at trial under the…
When a law barring Illinois defendants from claiming they committed murder after learning the victim’s sexual identity went into effect in early January, that state became the second to enact such legislation. California was the first state to enact the so-called Gay Panic law in 2014. The year before, the American Bar Association (ABA) unanimously…
When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions unilaterally rescinded The Cole Memo on January 4, 2018, a document penned by then-Deputy Attorney General Jeff Cole in 2013 offering guidance to federal prosecutors about prosecuting marijuana-related cases, he probably did not anticipate the firestorm he was about to light. Although efforts to legalize the recreational use of…
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