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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a US border agent acquitted of murder in the shooting death of a Mexican teenager is not immune from civil claims for damages by the boy’s mother. In October 2012 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was shot about 10 times in the back [...]

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Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected a right-to-work law in a referendum on Tuesday, delivering a resounding victory to unions. Proposition A , in part, prohibits compulsory union fees for non-union members. Specifically, at issue are “fair-share fees,” which are less than full dues and implemented to cover non-political costs that non-union members are able to benefit [...]

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Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, filed an appeal on Monday requesting a federal appeals court to review an order by District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia that requires Manafort to be detained in jail while he awaits trial on several felony [...]

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A coalition of 17 states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its policy to separate immigrant children from their families and refusal to allow asylum applicants entry along Southwestern border ports. The complaint describes reports of families who have sought asylum only to be unlawfully refused at [...]

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Amnesty International (AI) released a report on Thursday accusing the Nigerian military of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during its fight against Islamic insurgency Boko Haram. The 89-page report , which is based on hundreds of interviews, gives accounts of abuses including rape, torching villages and indiscriminate killings. With the support of the [...]

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The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in US v. Sanchez-Gomez that defendants’ constitutional objection to shackling was not saved from mootness because the defendants “sought ‘class-like relief’ in a ‘functional class action'” nor because “the challenged practice was ‘capable of repetition’ yet ‘evading review.'” A policy adopted by the US District Court for the [...]

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