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News Health care activists challenge Maine’s failure to expand Medicaid following voter approval
Health care activists challenge Maine’s failure to expand Medicaid following voter approval
Tate Brown
May 2, 2018 10:31:20 am

Health care activists filed a complaint Monday against Maine's Department of Health and Human Services for its failure to expand Medicaid after voters had approved its expansion in November. The citizens of Maine voted in November to enact...

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News California Supreme Court makes it harder to classify workers as independent contractors
California Supreme Court makes it harder to classify workers as independent contractors
Tate Brown
May 2, 2018 09:46:24 am

The California Supreme Court issued a ruling Monday making it more difficult for employers to classify their employees as independent contractors. In order for an employee to be classified as an independent contractor, the court ruled that the employer...

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News States sue Trump administration over vehicle emissions
States sue Trump administration over vehicle emissions
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
May 1, 2018 03:32:10 pm

A coalition of 17 states and the District of Columbia, led by California, filed suit against the Trump administration Tuesday to defend an Obama-era rule on vehicle emissions standards. The existing regulations would have required vehicles to meet...

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News UN rights expert urges civilian protection amid increasing Myanmar violence
UN rights expert urges civilian protection amid increasing Myanmar violence
Lindsay Offutt
May 1, 2018 01:31:52 pm

The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, on Monday expressed concern over violence against civilians in Myanmar's Kachin State. A reported 10 civilians were killed and several more severely injured and wounded...

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News UN rights expert calls for retrial of four men sentenced to death in Bahrain
UN rights expert calls for retrial of four men sentenced to death in Bahrain
Lindsay Offutt
May 1, 2018 12:18:39 pm

UN human rights experts called for a retrial on Monday following flawed trial procedure and due process violations in the conviction of four men sentenced to death in the Bahraini High Military Court in December. The four men,...

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European Court ruled against hitting schoolchildren in the UK

On February 25, 1982, in Campbell & Cosans v. The United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that parents can prevent teachers in the United Kingdom from striking their schoolchildren. At the time of the court's decision, the UK was the only Western European nation that permitted corporal punishment in schools.

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