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Arizona House supports repeal of 1864 abortion ban

Joe Duhownik / April 24, 2024

The bill, which cleanly repeals the Civil War-era ban that provides no exceptions for rape or incest, now must receive a majority vote from the state Senate.

Poland’s prosecutor general says previous government used spyware against hundreds of people

Associated Press / April 24, 2024

Pegasus, produced by Israeli company NSO Group, has been sold to governments and is described as a tool to fight criminals and terrorists.

Pro-Palestinian student group sues DC high school over censorship

Ryan Knappenberger / April 24, 2024

The Arab Student Union at Jackson-Reed High School in Washington has been effectively barred from hosting pro-Palestinian events on campus, forcing the group to host an event at a local restaurant instead.

Starbucks union

Brief / April 24, 2024

SAN FRANCSICO — The Ninth Circuit granted the National Labor Relations Board’s application for enforcement of its order directing Starbucks to cease and desist from its failure and refusal to recognize and bargain with a union. The NLRB held that this refusal constitutes an unfair labor practice. Starbucks says the union conducted a mail-in vote instead of an in-person election, as it should have; the NLRB says this decision was an appropriate exercise of the union’s regional director’s discretion.

California doctors falter in bid to shut down discipline over Covid advice

Edvard Pettersson / April 23, 2024

The same judge who last year blocked a law against Covid misinformation didn't see merit in a similar effort to preemptively block discipline for dispensing Covid opinions.

Shasta County officers must answer for breaking man’s wrist after falsely arresting him

Michael Gennaro / April 23, 2024

Jimmy Gettings claims a Shasta County sheriff's deputy broke his wrist with tight handcuffs after he was falsely arrested for selling baby chicks.

Hinduism in public schools

Brief / April 23, 2024

CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois partially granted a former high school student’s motion to certify a class of all students who participated in Chicago Public Schools’ “Quiet Time program” between 2015 and 2019. The student has sufficiently alleged that the program was presented as being secular, but featured “hidden” Hindu religious elements, such as chanting Sanskrit mantras that honored Hindu deities and were not “meaningless,” as the student was told.

Transgender Louisianans lost their ally in the governor’s seat. Now they’re girding for a fight

Associated Press / April 23, 2024

Advocates in the Bayou State are organizing their fight.

North Carolina advocates praise progress as judge finds prosecuting felon voters unconstitutional

Sydney Haulenbeek / April 23, 2024

Felons cannot be prosecuted for mistakenly voting while on post-release supervision, a federal judge ruled, striking down a century-old North Carolina law.

Foster care in W.Va.

Brief / April 23, 2024

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal court in West Virginia denied a class of former foster care children’s motion for sanctions against the West Virginia Department of Health Services because it did not timely produce case files in the class’s civil rights suit over “systemic deficiencies” in the state’s foster care system. The department “made mistakes in preserving and producing information,” but this was not done in bad faith or out of disrespect for any court order.

UK passes contentious bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Cain Burdeau / April 23, 2024

Nearly two years after Europe's human rights court first blocked Britain from sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, the deportation plan is back after the British Parliament passed a revised law.