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Florida welfare drug testing program struck down by federal appeals court
Republican-led efforts to drug test all recipients of public assistance were dealt a possible death blow Tuesday by a federal appeals court when the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Florida’s controversial 2011 law requiring all welfare recipients and applicants to undergo drug testing. According to the Colorlines blog,…
Second federal appeals court strikes down Defense of Marriage Act
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday because the second federal appeals court to find parts of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to be unconstitutional. A three-judge panel in Manhattan ruled that Section 3 of DOMA violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. The…
Court orders Ohio to restore early voting for all residents
A federal appeals court has ruled that the state of Ohio extend early voting hours to all residents, overturning a measure that limited the practice to military members and voters living overseas. Talking Points Memo reported that the ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allows for voting…
New York federal appeals court hears latest Defense of Marriage Act case
Edith Windsor’s case is one of several challenges winding their way through US courts for possible supreme court hearing An 83-year-old marriage equality campaigner was at New York’s federal appeals court on Thursday for the latest stage of her fight against a federal act that defines marriage as between a…
60 House Democrats refuse to sign federal court brief against DOMA
A group of House Democrats filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking a federal appeals court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, according to Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner. However, 60 Democrats — including 15 who had co-sponsored a bill repealing the DOMA — chose not to sign on to Tuesday’s brief to…
Boston court of appeals finds DOMA unconstitutional
A federal appeals court in Boston has found that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, according to the Associated Press. Today’s ruling by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston upheld a 2010 ruling by a lower court judge who said that by defining marriage…
Federal appeals court: Illinois cannot enforce ban on recording police officers
A federal appeals court on Tuesday barred the enforcement of a controversial law that allowed for the arrest and prosecution of individuals who made audio recordings of police officers without their consent. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the Illinois’ Eavesdropping Act “likely violates” the…
Former prisoner can sue over order to cut dreadlocks
(Reuters) – A former prisoner can sue a state prison employee for ordering him to shear his dreadlocks, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. A Chicago appeals court revived a lawsuit by ex-inmate Omar Grayson against Harold Schuler, an official at Big Muddy Correctional Center in Illinois who required…
Padilla revives lawsuit against Rumsfeld for alleged torture
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Jose Padilla, the US citizen arrested in 2002 for an alleged “dirty bomb” plot, launched an action to try to revive a lawsuit over his alleged torture at an American naval base. Padilla, who is incarcerated at a high security jail in Colorado, previously sued in…
Supreme Court to decide health care case on Nov. 10
WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court will decide on November 10 whether or not to take up the case of President Barack Obama’s historic health care law, court sources said Wednesday. The decision by the nine justices, to be made in closed session, could be made public that day or…
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