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Edina High School’s Young Conservative Club Wins Free Speech Lawsuit

- March 14, 2018

After filing a lawsuit against Edina High School, the school district, principal, and superintendent over alleged discrimination, student members of the Young Conservatives Club (YCC) recently agreed to a settlement that will result in their club being reinstated at the school. In filing the lawsuit, the YCC students “charged the school with violating students’ rights of freedom of speech and of association, equal access, and not abiding by federal laws and codes for the U.S. Flag.” But what did the school do to prompt the lawsuit in the first place?

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Baltimore Judge Rules That Keeping Transgender Teen Out of Boys’ Locker Room Is Discrimination

- March 14, 2018

A Baltimore judge ruled that barring a transgender teen from using the boys’ locker room is tantamount to discrimination and “harms his health and well-being.” According to The Washington Post, Max Brennan – a transgender boy from Maryland’s Eastern Shore – was offered an unusual sort of accommodation. Brennan, per district policy, had to change

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Settlement Announced, Ending Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Pepe the Frog Paintings

- March 13, 2018

A copyright infringement lawsuit was recently settled between the artist who “created Pepe the Frog” and Missouri native Jessica Logsdon. The artist, Matt Furie, originally filed the lawsuit because he alleged that Logsdon misused the “character to sell hate-promoting oil paintings.” This isn’t the first lawsuit Furie has filed over his character, Pepe, though. On his “campaign to reclaim his creation from far-right extremists who hijacked Pepe, mixing images of Furie’s ‘chill frog-dude’ with Nazi symbols and other hateful imagery,” he also filed a lawsuit against Infowars, a “conspiracy-promoting website…for selling a poster that included an image of Pepe.”

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California and Trump Administration Clash Over Sanctuary Laws Suit

- March 12, 2018

The State of California plans to demand that a Trump administration challenge to its sanctuary laws be transferred from a federal court in Sacramento to another venue in San Francisco. According to Politico.com, the possibility of a venue change will be determined by Sacramento-based Judge John Mendez, who’s now adjudicating the unusual suit brought forward

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On 2nd Anniversary of Son’s Death, Father Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against City of Mission and Three Police Officers

- March 12, 2018

Michigan resident David Green recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court “against the city of Mission and three of its police officers.” Why? Well, according to Green, the three police officers named in the lawsuit “fatally shot his mentally ill son” two years ago after allegedly failing “to use de-escalation tactics after he called police Feb. 22, 2016, seeking help for his 38-year-old son, David Green II.” The lawsuit also alleges that the officer’s “excessive force led to his son’s death.”

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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against ‘America’s Got Talent’

- March 9, 2018

‘America’s Got Talent,’ a reality competition show that features dancers, singers, magicians, comedians, and other types of performers, just got hit with some bad legal news. It turns out the show, along with the producers and network, NBC, is being sued in a wrongful death lawsuit. By whom, though, and why? For starters, the lawsuit was filed by the family of a “79-year-old woman claims she died three months after being injured in a fall from her wheelchair outside of where ‘AGT’ was filming” back in March 2017.

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Civil Rights Advocates Sue East Mississippi Correctional Facility Over ‘Barbaric’ Living Conditions

- March 8, 2018

On Monday, attorneys for inmates at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility opened arguments in a class-action suit alleging barbaric conditions afflicting over a thousand prisoners. Both sides, according to the Clarion Ledger, presented their cases before U.S. District Judge William Barbour, Jr., on Monday. The juryless trial – expected to last up to six weeks

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