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The COVID-19 pandemic, we have been told, is changing everything, and that includes possibly one of California's oldest social support systems, employee compensation. Legal tinkering and a potentially disruptive lawsuit threatens to undo a…

"Instead of worrying about what they call their inmates, maybe the MCSO should deal with their blue flu," a source told Wisconsin Right Now, but the sheriff's spokesman points out that the county board and executive are doing the Have power…

The high-profile conflict over whether those who drive for Uber, Lyft and other delivery and ridesharing companies are employees or independent contractors entered a new phase last week in an Alameda County courtroom. Judge Frank Roesch…

A Putman County man has filed a civil rights suit against the Public County Commission and five law enforcement officers for an illegal search of his home. They claimed to have the authority of an eviction notice, but the plaintiff was not…

A federal court ruled last month that the St. Johns County School District was against the constitution by preventing a male transgender student from using the boys' bathroom. But this week the court agreed to reconsider that decision at…

GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania - The former director of the Westmoreland County Election Bureau filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday alleging she was ill-treated and her civil rights violated while at work."The whole treatment that I received…

Rev. Paul McDaniel, a beloved Chattanooga minister, political leader and civil rights pioneer, has died at age 90.   A county building off East Third Street is named in honor of the former County Commission…

Federal Judge Denise Cote ruled that Westchester County has been weighed down with a consent decree to build 750 affordable housing units like the ones above and that a federal monitor to oversee the work is no longer…

"This bill would create a novel, dangerous and unconstitutional 'irrefutable presumption' that illegal behavior towards police and other first responders was motivated out of hatred if the rescuer was in uniform at the time," the group…

After a heated five-hour public testimony, Long Island legislators voted 12-6 to implement the bill. It takes effect immediately. This law comes as states and municipalities seek to restrict the rights of protesters after more than a year…