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Doe and Rabago v. Kamehameha Schools, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 2, 2005 [ruling that the Kamehameha Schools policy of only admitting native Hawaiians as students violated 42 USC 1981, which forbids racial discrimination in...

Leading Wednesday's states brief, North Carolina lawmakers and law enforcement officers today urged the state's General Assembly to pass legislation unveiled seven months ago to combat gang member violence in the state. The bill would create additional...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco has overturned a lower court ruling and struck down a Hawaiian school's policy of only admitting native Hawaiians as students, even...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales marked the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Tuesday by saying that the Bush administration is working to extend parts of the act...

After at least 36 people were killed in riots Monday, violence continued in Khartoum, Sudan on Tuesday in response to the death of former rebel leader John Garang [Wikipedia profile, who helped broker a peace deal and...

Leading Monday's states brief, the California Supreme Court ruled today that a private country club must offer spousal discounts to same-sex domestic partners. The court found that the country club's policy of allowing members' spouses to golf...

US District Judge for the District of Nebraska Laurie Smith Camp ruled Monday that Union Pacific Railroad discriminated against women by covering a range of preventive drugs, but not contraception, in its health care plan....

Leading Wednesday's states brief, the New York Court of Appeals ruled today that the prior dismissed charges against four anti-war protesters are to be resealed and not used against the protesters in determining their sentences for later...

Leading Tuesday's states brief, the Oklahoma Supreme Court Tuesday struck down the Oklahoma Municipal Employees Collective Bargaining Act as unconstitutional. The state law allowed municipal employees to unionize in cities with populations greater than 35,000. The court found...

The UN is planning to send an investigator to Japan next week to look into charges of racism and discrimination against ethnic minority groups in the country, including ethnic Koreans and Chinese, according to a statement by the Office...