Former Minneapolis Police Officer Tou Thao has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in 2020. Thao is reported to have stated at his hearing that he “did not intend on doing any malice or anything like that, or try to hurt anyone” during…
The Fourth Circuit has made a pivotal alteration in its milieu on attorney’s fees for injunction wins, negating an old rule which previously impeded litigants from pursuing these fees unless they had been awarded a final judgment. In a recent ruling, the court decided that litigants in unique circumstances can be deemed a “prevailing party”…
Precision Anesthesia Billing, LLC (PAB) has recently announced a substantial data breach, impacting around 209,000 individuals. This instance contributes to a growing number of high-profile data breaches in recent years, increasingly targeting corporations in sensitive industries. As reported in JD Supra, PAB discovered that an unauthorized party had gained access to confidential patient information provided…
The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a Mississippi constitutional provision dating back to the 1890 Jim Crow era. The provision, known as Section 241, permanently disenfranchised individuals convicted of certain felonies. Judge James Dennis, writing for the majority, maintained that the 1890 Mississippi Constitution was clear in its intention to “ensure the…
Former US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to four criminal charges connected with alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election. On Thursday, he appeared with his private counsel before Federal Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya in a federal courthouse in Washington D.C. to declare his plea. The charges against the former president were unveiled…
In the 19th Century, a man named Homer Plessy, who was seven-eighths White and one-eighth Black, was once pejoratively referred to as an “octoroon”. Plessy grew up during the age of Reconstruction in New Orleans, a time when people of color were granted expanded civic and political rights. However, this era of relative racial progress…
On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a ruling in a pair of cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) that could have significant implications for all industries. The Court struck down the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, setting a new precedent…