California’s Reparation Task Force released a report Wednesday regarding reparation recommendations for descendants of enslaved people. The near 500-page report explains how these individuals have faced tremendous harms as a result of the wealth gap caused by slavery and the discriminatory policies that followed. The report specifically mentions housing, education, employment, and the legal system [...]
A federal judge Tuesday increased the prison sentence of a man convicted of planning to join ISIS and to attack an FBI agent. US District Judge Margo Brodie had originally sentenced Fareed Mumuni to 17 years in prison. Following a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit which called the sentence [...]
A California appeals court Tuesday held that four species of bumblebees can be added to the state’s endangered species list under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). The court found that, as invertebrates, bees were included under the legal definition of “fish” in the act. CESA is an environmental law responsible for conserving and protecting [...]
A woman injured in April’s Brooklyn subway mass shooting Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Glock Inc. (Glock), a gun manufacturer. On April 12 2022, a gunman opened fire on a Brooklyn subway. The shooter “put on a mask, threw two smoke grenades, and opened fire with a Glock 17 9mm” The mass shooting resulted in [...]
Two lawsuits were filed by Black Minneapolis residents on Tuesday against Derek Chauvin, several other officers and the City of Minneapolis alleging that Chauvin used excessive force during their encounters with him. Zoya Code and John Pope both allege that Chauvin used tactics similar to those that got him convicted for killing George Floyd. In [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit challenging a federal judge’s April order that overturned the federal public transportation mask mandate. The Centers for Disease and Control (CDC) implemented the federal mask mandate to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The federal mask [...]
A New York grand jury indicted Wednesday the man accused of carrying out a racist shooting at Tops Market in Buffalo on May 14. Payton Gendron shot 13 people, killing of 10 of them. All the victims who died were black. Buffalo police arrested Gendron after the shooting ceased, and he surrendered to the police. [...]
Florida healthcare providers Wednesday filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block Florida’s new abortion law, which bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, set to take effect July 1. The complaint argues that Florida’s new abortion law, HB 5, “radically curtails the ability of Floridians to make decisions about whether or not to continue [...]
An Australian judge Tuesday referred an Indigenous Australian man’s request to receive his social security age pension three years early to a full panel of the Federal Court of Australia. Justice Debra Mortimer ordered the full federal court to consider the case in an 87-page decision. Dennis James Fisher, a 64-year-old Indigenous Australian man, seeks [...]
Canada’s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Carolyn Bennett Tuesday announced that her office is temporarily decriminalizing some drug possession crimes in British Columbia to address the province’s overdose crisis. The minister’s goal is to “decrease substance use harms, prevent overdose, reduce stigma and end this crisis” in order to save lives. British Columbia (BC) [...]
