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Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Calls for New Age of Diversity on Chancery Court Amid President Biden’s Nominations
April 1, 2021 GMT
WILMINGTON, Del. (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 1, 2021
Today, Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware (CPBD) called for a Black justice to be nominated to the Chancery Court following President Biden’s first round of historic judicial nominations in the federal courts, including the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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With outgoing Chancellor Andre Bouchard set to retire on April 30th, there is an unprecedented opportunity to restore diversity on the Chancery Court alongside historic federal court nominations of people of color. For years, CPBD has been calling for diversity in Delaware’s courts, and has been joined by leaders such as Reverend Al Sharpton and Pastor Blaine
WASHINGTON (AP) — With a nod to Women’s History Month, the Democratic-led House passed two measures Wednesday, one designed to protect women from domestic violence, the other to remove the
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Glankler Brown Announces Tennessee Property Owners Prevail In Landmark Case Against Federal Government
March 16, 2021 GMT
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BUSINESS WIRE) Mar 16, 2021
U.S. District Judge Mark S. Norris ruled Monday afternoon in favor of the property owners and managers who brought a lawsuit against the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Department of Housing and Urban Development, finding that the national eviction moratorium which has prevented residential evictions since September 2020, is unlawful and exceeds the authority delegated to the CDC under the federal Public Health Service Act. Judge Norris struck down the eviction moratorium and declared it unenforceable. In issuing his 20-page Order, Judge Norris stated that “[t]o hold otherwise would be to construe the statute so broadly as to grant this administrative agency
Indiana lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow courts to charge people over the age of 21 as adults for child molestation acts they committed when they were teenagers.
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NCLA Points 11th Circuit to Recent District Court Ruling Setting Aside CDC’s Eviction Moratorium
New Civil Liberties AllianceMarch 13, 2021 GMT
Washington, D.C., March 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) This week marks the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. With all that has been lost, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, is fighting to make sure Americans do not lose their cherished constitutional rights. Today, NCLA filed a reply brief in its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in the case, Rick Brown, et al. v. Secretary Alex Azar, et al. NCLA is asking the Court of Appeals to reverse an erroneous decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia denying a motion by several housing providers to block a nationwide “eviction moratorium” order issued by the Centers for Disease Control