Friday brought chaos to a conservative effort to broker compromise on a House immigration bill. After a week of long talks, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan promised Wednesday that Republicans were finally finding common ground on a contentious immigration issue. Ever since President Donald Trump formally rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
CSX Transportation recently agreed to pay a $3.2 million settlement to settle a lawsuit after it was accused of “administering physical capability tests that prevented women from being hired for certain jobs.” CSX is a company that supplies rail-based freight transportation throughout the United States and Canada. A leader in the industry, the Jacksonville, Florida-based company “operates more than 21,000 miles of track in 23 Eastern states, including West Virginia and Kentucky, and two Canadian provinces.”
When most people think about school buses, they don’t exactly think of them being environmentally friendly. However, in Arizona, Gov. Doug Ducey recently announced that he will be replacing more than 280 “aging and presumably high-polluting school buses…at no cost to Arizona taxpayers.” The money for the new buses will come from the “$59 million the state is getting as its share of a nationwide settlement with Volkswagen to replace buses that are at least 15 years old and have more than 100,000 miles on them.”
Nearly four years after Darren Borges died while in police custody, his family has finally reached a $3.45 million settlement with Humboldt County in the wrongful death lawsuit they filed. In addition to agreeing to the monetary settlement, the county will also “implement health screening protocols before a person is put in a cell,” according to the agreement.
There is a lot of debate about whether safe injection sites are, in fact, safe. Is this really the best way to go for those who struggle with addictions to heroin? Do they do more to damage good neighborhoods than help them? Is this really the way we want to be as a society? Aren’t we just telling people that it’s okay to keep doing what they do, and we’ll help them stay safe again and again?
Transgender Employee Settles Discrimination Lawsuit with Wal-Mart
Delaware Attorney Suspended and Banned from Reviewing Financial Records
Eight years after filing a class-action lawsuit against Hawaii’s Department of Education, almost 500 former students have finally agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement. The lawsuit itself alleged the students “were illegally denied special education services.” Specifically, it argued that the “DOE violated the federal Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, which requires that states provide free appropriate public education to all people with disabilities who are under age 22,” according to the lawsuit. The suit settled for $10.45 million.
After a 9-year-old Hawaiian girl starved to death while in the care of the state, her family has decided to sue the “state of Hawaii as well as her parents and grandmother for wrongful death.” According to the suit, a number of individuals, organizations, and government departments were negligent in the child’s death, including the “Department of Human Services, Child Protective Services, Child Welfare Services and the Department of Education.”
Newly-appointed New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood is suing the Trump Foundation, along with the president and his children, alleging “extensive and persistent” lawbreaking. Underwood, writes the BBC, claims that Trump’s charitable group engaged in “unlawful political co-ordination” aimed at influencing the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Along with dissolving the foundation, Underwood