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Credit: Images_By_Kenny/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Charleston Forum will discuss perceptions, challenges, and actions concerning race and systematic inequity through a virtual forum on October 6. The forum will cover survey data that highlights particular challenges in local justice systems. Survey respondents were asked about specific action plans ...

When James Middleton and Alizée Thévenet got married last weekend, it seems the bride had no problem finding her “something borrowed” for the big day as she explained this week that she was actually wearing her mother-in-law Carole Middleton’s 1980 wedding dress. Regarding her choice in gown for the ceremony, the newlywed told Hello!, “My something borrowed was in fact my dress from my mother...

The New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) was recently amended by Local Law 4, which took effect on July 29, 2021. The Amendment expands the protections of the 2015 Fair Chance Act (FCA) to New York City job applicants whose criminal history includes unsealed violations and unsealed non-criminal offenses, as well as to cover current employees and pending cases. The Amendment’s stated object...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will hear a case concerning a Mississippi abortion law on December 1, the court announced on Monday, teeing up one of the most substantial cases of the term in which the justices are being asked to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Mississippi case -- the most important set of abortion-related oral arguments the court has heard since 1992 -- comes as states across the ...

Texas has grabbed the spotlight lately, but other meaningful challenges to states’ abortion laws are still winding their way through the federal courts. The validity of state laws banning abortions after six weeks’ gestation and those sought because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome will be argued this week in the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Eleventh and Eighth Circuits. The argument...

It’s a small occupational hazard that accompanies membership in the Bar — the ribbing that all lawyers take at social functions with those groan-inducing lawyer jokes. While the good-natured jests typically merit a chuckle and a pass, it’s worth noting, two decades after the 9/11 tragedy and with all the deeply divisive events that have occurred since, that there are clear indicators that the...

Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court will hear a case concerning a Mississippi abortion law on December 1, the court announced on Monday, teeing up one of the most substantial cases of the term in which the justices are being asked to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Mississippi case -- the most important set of abortion-related oral arguments the court has heard since 1992 -- comes as states across th...

A North Carolina court on Friday struck down a Republican voter ID law that it said was intended to discriminate against Black voters. A 2-1 majority of the Wake County Superior Court ruled that the 2018 law "was motivated at least in part by an unconstitutional intent to target African American voters." The majority opinion said that the law was "motivated in part for a discriminatory purpos...

On September 15, 2021, a split Ninth Circuit panel ruled that certain portions of California’s Assembly Bill 51 (2019) were not preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), raising questions as to whether many employers’ current practices of implementing mandatory arbitration agreements are proper. In Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America v. Bonta, the 2-1 panel upheld the po...

Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin speaks during a campaign event in McLean, Va., July 14, 2021. On September 2, when the Supreme Court declined to block enforcement of Texas’s law that prohibits almost all abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected (about six weeks into pregnancy), many political reporters and pundits speculated that the Texas law could prompt a back...