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Timothy Hurst, an inmate currently held on Death Row, was sentenced under the state's capital punishment law, which has been declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court since January this year.

Vance, et al. v. Donald Rumsfeld and the United States of America, Nos. 10-1687, 10-2442 (7th Cir. Aug. 2011), alleges that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld bears personal involvement and responsibility for alleges torture of U.S. citizens in Iraq.

We have followed the development of federal Circuit law on whether the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, and specifically the Torture Victim Protection Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1350 note § 2(a), create rights of action against corporations.

Seyfarth Synopsis: On the eve of Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court granted various religious groups' request to temporarily block enforcement...

Paraphrasing a 2011 Supreme Court case, the Rideout court noted that, "[f]or an interest to be sufficiently compelling, the state must demonstrate that it addresses an actual problem."

The majority of states that have reached the question have found "Ladies' Nights" or similar types of promotional activities unlawful.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, in December 2009, found the Department of Defense in civil contempt for failing to videotape the habeas petition testimony of Mohammed Al-Adahi, a detainee at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since 2002.

Website accessibility is an evolving and complicated topic, about which we've written many times.

If the government obtains information about your past locations from your wireless provider, is that a search? If so, is it a search that requires the government to obtain a warrant?

Summertime means swimming pools. Many of our communities have a pool for use by residents and guests.

The past year in the retail industry saw continued low interest rates and availability of equity funds that resulted in fierce competition for buyers of real estate and lower rates of return. These and other converging and conflicting economic patterns have resulted in considerable obstacles for retail sales and development for some, and a great opportunity for others.

This morning, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, DOJ participated by issuing its Spring 2016 unified agenda, including upcoming regulatory actions on web accessibility and movie captioning.

Researchers have observed a previously undisclosed custom multi-stage backdoor dubbed "Stealth Soldier" involved in a wave of highly targeted espionage attacks against North Africa.

On December 9, 2022, S&P Dow Jones Indices (DJI) announced the results of its 2022 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) Annual Review.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued guidance warning colleges and universities about potential Fair Housing Act violations related to student housing practices. What constitutes unlawful segregation or discrimination in campus residential programs, and how might seemingly inclusive identity-focused housing initiatives face heightened federal scrutiny?

Scholarships up to the cost of attendance "count as athletic financial assistance and are subject to the same rules under Title IX as other athletic scholarships," according to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

This time each year, we eagerly await among the most insightful and important annual reports for in-house human rights practitioners: LRN's Program Effectiveness Report.

On April 10, 2025, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved further revisions to the Commission on Human Rights' regulations implementing the county's paid leave ordinance.