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On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that an existing civil rights law protects workers from job discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation. Associated Press reports that the court decided by a 6-3 vote that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate based on a person’s […]
As an 8-year-old boy, George Floyd had dreams of impacting the world and ensuring justice for Americans. This aspiration was recently revealed by Waynel Sexton, Floyd’s 2nd grade teacher at Frederick Douglass Elementary School in Texas. In the days following Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police, Sexton shared an essay written by Floyd nearly 40 years ago. The assignment […]
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has overturned the state’s “safer at home” order, which was extended last month in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to the New York Times, the 4-3 decision was written by four of the court’s conservative justices who ruled Gov. Tony Evers’ administration had exceeded its authority by extending the stay-at-home mandate through May 26. […]
The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempts to include a question on the 2020 census form asking U.S. residents whether or not they are citizens. The court didn’t rule on whether or not including the citizenship question is unlawful but rather cited concerns over why the president’s administration wanted to include it in the first place. In […]
It’s a good day to be Erik Brunetti, as the Supreme Court has handed the FUCT founder a major win in a perplexing trademark dispute case. “The clothing line is pronounced as four letters, one after the other: F-U-C-T,” Justice Elena Kagan said Monday of the 6-3 majority ruling, per NBC News‘ report. “But you might […]
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the antitrust lawsuit centered around Apple’s signature marketplace, the App Store, will be allowed to move forward. The plaintiffs in the suit have argued that Apple uses its monopoly power over its App Store to overcharge consumers. The technology powerhouse reportedly takes a 30 percent commission from the software […]
Though a decision in the FUCT Supreme Court case has not been reached, a recent hearing produced an assortment of noteworthy moments, the bulk of which revolve around a bunch of people who are presumably totally unfamiliar with the label attempting to tiptoe around its name. Monday, Supreme Court justices discussed FUCT founder Erik Brunetti‘s […]
While Jamal Knox was awaiting trial for other charges, Pittsburgh authorities stumbled across a music video called “F**k the Police.” In the song, Knox (a rapper that goes by the name of Mayhem Mal) talks about harming certain police officers. Local and state courts did not feel as though Knox’s record fell into the grounds […]
Back in November, U.S. Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg broke three ribs, which led to the discovery of two cancerous nodules on her lung. According to a statement released on Friday by the Supreme Court, Bader underwent a pulmonary lobectomy today at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, removing the two cancerous growths. The two […]
The Trump Administration is asking the Supreme Court to hear arguments on its transgender military ban, hoping that the conservative-leaning court will allow the ban to go through and end injunctions placed on the policy by lower-court judges, according to CNN. Justice Department lawyers filed petitions on Friday in three separate cases regarding the administration’s […]
