Five states changed their congressional district lines since the 2022 midterm elections; three of those states (Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia) were mandated to redraw their lines by federal courts, who found that the old lines violatedthe Voting Rights Act of 1965. The other t...
Democrats have many other strong arguments to make this year, from the thriving Biden economy to preserving democracy (thetop voter issuein one recent poll) to the House GOP rejection, at Trump’s urging, of a tough bipartisan border deal that Biden embraced and the Senate was ready to pass...
the laws are likely to be blocked in federal district and appeals courts. The supporters of these laws can then petition the Supreme Court to review the cases, setting up a possible scenario in which the court reverses itself on abortion. ...
Bankruptcy cases are handled by federal courts. Individual bankruptcy cases are filed with U.S. district courts. Cook County bankruptcies are handled by the Northern District of Illinois U.S. District Court at 219 Dearborn Street in Chicago. Many,but not all, of the rules that bankruptcy filers...
Later the same day, Wallace gave in to demands by Assistant Attorney Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach and the Alabama National Guard allowing Black students Vivian Malone and Jimmy Hood to register. During the rest of 1963,federal courtsordered the integration of Black students into public schools throughou...
it would clearly establish that I am in the general downtown Tucson area, but it's not gonna be able to distinguish between me being here at my desk versus at the law firm next door, versus the superior court about three block away or the federal district court about five blocks away....
In 1925 Marcus Garvey began serving a prison term at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. His job at the penitentiary was cleaning bathrooms. In this way, White America made it clear its expectation that black people were meant for only the most manual service roles. Although Marcus ...
Like Alabama, there are some Enterprise zones in Arizona. If your LLC is operating or located in those specific areas, you may qualify for financial support. The local government provides various incentive programs to entrepreneurs to encourage more business and economic improvement in the under-deve...
In these states, abortion is still accessible, but isn't legally protected under the state constitution: Iowa, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wyoming. And these states either have total bans on abortion or make it extremely difficult to obtain an abortion: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas...
Nearly two dozen class-action suits were filed against SSA, and courts in all but one federal district reversed or limited the new SSA policies.The result was passage — unanimously in both Congressional chambers — of the Disability Benefits Reform Act of 1984. The law — along...