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By Marianna Wharry | September 28, 2023
"[T]he Supreme Court held that Washington's mandatory 'Three Strikes' law may be applied to childhood offenses, and that crimes committed by a child may count as automatic 'strikes' toward a life without parole sentence," Jan Trasen, of the Washington Appellate Project, said in statement. "This disregards evidence-based [Washington state] precedent that 'children are different' from adults, and that they must be sentenced differently. As the dissenting justices said, 'A juvenile charged and sentenced in adult court does not magically become an adult because of the venue in which the case is resolved. … Children are different and age matters.'"
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By ALM Staff | September 28, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Alexa E. Miller | September 28, 2023
The PWFA expands the pregnancy-related protections of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect employees from discrimination based on pregnancy or related conditions but does not impose an accommodation obligation.
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By Marianna Wharry | September 26, 2023
"Today's opinion is a victory for Mackenzie and for student survivors across the country," said Alexandra Brodsky, a staff attorney at Public Justice in Washington D.C., who argued the case before the en banc court. "Gender violence has grave effects on students' access to education. For that reason, the civil rights law Title IX requires schools to address known abuse. And as the Ninth Circuit explained today, a school's power to stop violence—and its responsibility to do so—doesn't stop at the campus boundary."
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By Sudhin Thanawala and Curlan Campbell | The Associated Press | September 26, 2023
The Fearless Fund is a tiny player in the approximately $200 billion global venture capital market, but Tuesday's ruling was a significant victory for the firm, which has become symbolic of the fight over corporate diversity policies.
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By Mark Sherman | The Associated Press | September 26, 2023
The justices, without any noted dissent, rejected the state's plea to retain Republican-drawn lines that were turned down by a lower court. In refusing to intervene, the high court allowed a court-appointed special master's work to continue.
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By Jimmy Hoover | September 26, 2023
The certs from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit include an appeal by the NRA, which claims that state leaders strongarmed companies into to cutting ties with the guns group.
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By Mark Sherman | The Associated Press | September 25, 2023
Federal courts across the country disagree about whether the word, as it is used in a bipartisan 2018 criminal justice overhaul, indeed means "and" or whether it means "or." Even an appellate panel that upheld a longer sentence called the structure of the provision "perplexing."
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By Sudhin Thanawala | The Associated Press | September 25, 2023
"I was confused and I was angry because I didn't know what was going on," Randal Quran Reid told The Associated Press of his stay in a Georgia jail. "They couldn't give me any information outside of, 'You've got to wait for Louisiana to come take you,' and there was no timeline on that."
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By ALM Staff | September 25, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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