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By Riley Brennan | January 29, 2024
"The court provided guidance that where a person has had an initial clinical evaluation for competency at court, the commonwealth has the burden to prove by clear and convincing evidence that hospitalization is the least restrictive alternative to adequately determine the defendant's competency to stand trial. Now, prosecutors across the state have clear guidance and judges have clarity that they must make clear findings to support those temporary hospitalizations." Norfolk District Attorney's Office spokesman David Traub said.
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By Angela D. Giampolo | January 29, 2024
As we look toward 2024, we do so with renewed optimism, carrying forward the lessons and victories of the past year, ready to build a more inclusive and equitable society.
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By Hugo Guzman | January 26, 2024
"We sometimes hear employers sort of downplay the concern with the EEOC, believing they're going to slip under the agency's radar. But it's important to remember that where the EEOC leads, the private plaintiffs bar follows," Seyfarth Shaw partner Christopher DeGroff said.
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By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press | January 25, 2024
Arbery, 25, was chased by pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a subdivision outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. His killing sparked a national outcry when cellphone video Bryan recorded of the shooting leaked online more than two months later.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | January 24, 2024
"If any principle of constitutional law ought to unite all of us as Americans, it's that the government has no business imprisoning citizens for the views they hold or the questions they ask," Circuit Judge James C. Ho wrote.
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By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press | January 23, 2024
What was already a fraught topic has become downright raw with the Israel-Hamas war. Some protesters chanting "Free Free Palestine!" were dragged from the Judiciary Committee room by police officers after the vote.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | January 23, 2024
"Any flight attendant who needs to take time off work for an ADA qualifying medical reason is subjected to accruing 'absence points,' which are then used to harm the employee, including discipline and/or termination," the complaint said.
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By Mason Lawlor | January 23, 2024
"Racial profiling communicates to members of the subject group that, 'regardless of any actual basis for criminal suspicion, they continue to be viewed as less than fully human based upon their race,"' actor Jean Elie wrote in support of the comedians. "[T]hat is precisely the message a Black person receives when he is branded with criminal stigma before a line of gawking onlookers for no justifiable, articulable reason."
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By Adolfo Pesquera | January 22, 2024
The Dallas Court of Appeals upheld a temporary injunction brought by an lawyer alleging invasion of privacy.
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By Emily Cousins | January 22, 2024
"Plaintiff could no longer tolerate the extreme, offensive, and invasive behavior she endured while pumping," the complaint said. "On February 25, 2022, Plaintiff resigned her position at The Villa with Tender Touch because of the lack of an intrusion-free space to express breast milk and the harassment from [her supervisor]."
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