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Senate Bill 2 aims to give „educational freedom“ to families across Texas, according to supporters of the bill. However, critics see the bill’s passage as a betrayal of public education.
Analyzing ancient Chinese poetry allowed researchers to understand where humans went wrong in protecting the now critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise.
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A federal court in Washington partially granted a motion for class certification in a resident’s lawsuit against ICE over the Tacoma Immigration Court’s practice of holding U.S. residents in immigration detention centers without bond at the Northwest ICE Processing Center. The judge agrees that two classes of noncitizen residents were likely wrongly denied their right to due process when their bond was denied.
Mike Jeffries, the former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO who was indicted for allegedly inducing young men to perform sex acts at his parties ostensibly in exchange for modeling opportunities, has been found incompetent to stand trial. Prosecutors did not challenge the motion to find him incompetent, though Jeffries will be held in custodial hospitalization for up to four months to determine if it’s possible that he might regain capacity in the foreseeable future.
A former animal control officer’s sex discrimination claims against the city of Fort Worth can proceed after she brought evidence that she was subjected to sexist and sexual comments by two male officers. One would talk about “butter-face” women, while another lost his temper at her multiple times, causing the woman to fear that she would be physically assaulted. Her equal pay claim was inadequately pleaded, however.
An appeals court in Louisiana affirmed a drug offender’s conviction for simple escape after he was caught on camera breaking away from guards, scaling an interior fence, getting tangled in razor wire and getting caught by jailers inside the perimeter fence. He unsuccessfully argued that, because he never got off the prison grounds, he should have been tried for the lesser offense of attempted escape. He also did not convince the court that his jailbreak was a prank meant to draw attention to his medical needs.
A federal court in Massachusetts denied federal agencies’ motion to dismiss all but one claim brought against them by collegiate education associations for allegedly enacting a policy to deport legal noncitizens who espouse pro-Palestinian beliefs, even when those beliefs do not support Hamas but merely oppose human rights abuses suffered by civilians in Palestine. “Noncitizens lawfully present in the United States have at least the core rights protected by the First Amendment, chief among them the right to speak on political subjects at least where such speech poses no immediate threat to others.”
A Colorado law firm is suing Thomson Reuters for refusing to cancel its contract to use its Westlaw legal research database. The law firm says the company falsely promised the firm could cancel the contract if it had a hard time using the product.
Hawaii says BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil and other fossil fuel giants knew for decades that their products were harmful but still promoted those products to maximize profits at the expense of the environment.
Inflation in the 20 nations that use the euro held steady at 2.2% in April, according to preliminary data released by Eurostat on Friday.
A class of investors who noticed “unusual stock sales” may proceed with their securities fraud action against NAPCO Security Technologies, whose stock price dropped 45% after the company acknowledged that its earnings statements were inflated.