US Justice Department announces initiative to combat discriminatory redlining practices
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday a new nationwide initiative to combat the practice of redlining. Redlining is a type of lending discrimination in which banks refuse to lend money to people seeking home loans because of their race or national origin. Redlining as a practice first came to prominence during the New Deal era [...]
Door Dash, Inc. filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday over a new ordinance the company says violates customer privacy. The New York City Council proposed a bill in May to require food delivery apps to share customer data with restaurants. The bill took effect on August 29. Delivery services [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Thousands of Cubans took to the streets Sunday in anti-government protests animated by popular disapproval of the Cuban regime’s handling of the economy and the Covid crisis, not to mention ongoing political repression of dissidents. The government responded by calling on its own supporters to resist the protests, and cut off internet [...]
Memorial Day 2021 Redux: The Fighting Three Wars Photo That Haunts All of the US
The Photo That Haunts All of the United States In a recent JURIST post commemorating Memorial Day, May 31, 2021, one of us wrote about a photo that haunts us. Thanks to the kindness of Alessio Parisi, we are now able to share that photo with you. It is above in black and white and [...]
Class action suit filed against Rochester Police Department for excessive force
A class action lawsuit was filed Monday in the Western District of New York accusing the Rochester Police Department (RPD) of racist practices and a “pattern … of using excessive force.” Plaintiffs include residents of the city of Rochester, New York, who have been subjected to excessive force by the RPD within the last year, [...]
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Monday in favor of former Speaker of the Illinois House Michael Madigan, finding that it cannot penalize him for his allegedly unethical behavior. The court noted that throughout Madigan’s long career in politics—he is “the longest-serving head of any state or [...]
An American Data Governance System: In Support of Information Fiduciaries
A recent case out of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals foreshadows what will be one of the most important policies of the twenty-first century – how will America decide to govern its data? In Tan Tsao v. Captiva MVP Restaurant, the plaintiff sued on the grounds that he was harmed after a group of [...]
Puerto Rico governor: Congress 'morally obligated' to act on statehood referendum
Puerto Rican Governor Pedro Pierluisi said Sunday that the US is “morally obligated” to take action following the territory’s recent referendum in favor of achieving US statehood. Although Puerto Ricans have voted repeatedly on the issue of statehood in recent years, the November vote finally garnered majority approval with high enough voter turnout. Congress has [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday dropped an affirmative action lawsuit it had filed against Yale University, accusing the school of discriminating against Asian American and White students in its undergraduate admissions process. In 2016 the DOJ received a complaint from a coalition of Asian-American organizations asserting that Yale discriminates against Asians in [...]
The FBI released their annual hate crime report on Monday, revealing that 2019 brought unusually high numbers of hate crimes and hate-motivated killings in the US. The number of hate crimes reached its highest level in over a decade, while the number of hate crime murders was the largest yet reported. The report, created by [...]
