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“We’re not ruling on the ultimate merits of the case,” Washington State Supreme Court Commissioner Michael E. Johnston said, “we’re ruling on whether it is procedurally teed up—whether it belongs in this court, and various procedural things.”
The two transgender women leading the proposed class-action lawsuit claim that the state’s new rule limiting who can request sex-related alterations to their birth certificate is unconstitutional.
Several Douglas County officials have since expressed support for the lawsuit, saying that local government has a right–and a duty–to prioritize the interest of citizens over those of undocumented immigrants.
Attorneys for several of the families involved in the claim say that the issue of organ theft has been so alarming for such a long time that former UAB medical students had signed a petition questioning the practice of harvesting inmates’ organs without obtaining consent from the next-of-kin.
The EEOC’s lawsuit alleges that Sheetz discriminates against minority applicants–by rejecting job-seekers who fail criminal criminal background checks.
Attorneys for the pseudonymous plaintiff claim that a former Leigh High School teacher–and suspected sex predator–coerced a teenage student into a relationship, then forced her to undergo an abortion.
Court documents indicate that the West Michigan restaurant had been repeatedly cited for health code violations in the days preceding the 11-year-old girl’s visit.
Under the terms of the agreement, the National Rifle Association and its charitable arrn–the NRA Foundation–will be required to form an “Audit Committee” and take other measures to ensure that future donations are not funneled from the non-profit back to the NRA.
In a brief opinion, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor encouraged lower courts not to read too much into the decision.
The class-action lawsuit claims that Target uses facial recognition tools to prevent theft–but records, retains, and analyzes the biometric data of many of its customers.