The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) announced Thursday that it is bringing proceedings before the Irish High Court over the state’s failure to properly house asylum applicants. This marks the... Read more »
A human rights activist detained for nearly three years in China, has gone on trial in Shandong province charged with “inciting subversion of state power”, Amy Hawkins reports for The Guardian. On... Read more »
Quick Hits Alabama has enacted a law to make overtime compensation exempt from the state income tax. The new law will only apply to income for work performed on or after January... Read more »
On December 14, 2023, the Cook County Board of Commissioners (“Board”) passed the Cook County Paid Leave Ordinance (the “Ordinance”), which converts the pre-existing Cook County Earned Sick Leave Ordinance into an... Read more »
A Texas judge granted on Thursday a temporary restraining order (TRO) barring the enforcement of the state’s strict abortion bans on a pregnant woman whose fetus was recently diagnosed with a fatal... Read more »
A November report from the New York State Inspector General found that defects in both the manufacturing and administration of drug tests used by the New York State Department of Corrections and... Read more »
Officers with the Portland police department are facing an internal affairs investigation for putting a slideshow together on people committing retail theft featuring mugshots of Black suspects, an act that may violate... Read more »
A new Washington state law could open a door for anti-fascists to be sued by the very neo-Nazis they’re exposing, Daniel Walters reports for the Oregon Capitol Chronicle. The law allows people... Read more »
The Supreme Court of India released its judgment Thursday in the case State of Punjab v. Principal Secretary to the Governor of Punjab establishing that if a Governor chooses to withhold assent... Read more »
A Tennessee state court ruled that a Republican-drawn map for the state’s Senate seats violated the Tennessee Constitution. In coming to their Wednesday ruling, a panel of judges determined that lawmakers incorrectly... Read more »