Posts Tagged ‘civil rights’

Based on her July 20, 2010 article titled, Delores Amorelli talks about the Washington D.C. discrimination case that ended with a $900K judgment in favor of the police officers.

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By Delores Amorelli, staff writer of SEOLawFirm.com’s Newsroom Column ‘In Good Practice’ – July 20, 2010
A jury in the District of Columbia has awarded five black city police officers a total of $900,000. The federal jury’s recent verdict confirmed that the officers in question were retaliated against after filing racial discrimination complaints with [...]

Skinner maintained his innocence throughout the trial and has claimed that DNA found at the crime scene but never tested would exonerate him and point to the actual killer.  Based on Kristen Friend’s May 25, 2010 article, Supreme Court to Hear Texas Death Row DNA Case.

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By Kristen Friend, staff U.S. Supreme Court writer – May 25, 2010
The Supreme Court will consider whether death row inmates can use a civil rights law to require the State to provide access to post-conviction DNA evidence. The case will determine whether convicted inmates have a federal right to demand access to DNA testing that [...]

By Kristen Friend, staff U.S. Supreme Court writer – March 2, 2010
A challenge to a US anti-terror law raises the issue of whether political speech may be prosecuted as support for a terrorist organization.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, last Tuesday

and is currently deliberating the [...]