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Black homeowners in central Brooklyn are taking action against the city after losing their homes at an alarming rate as... View Article
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\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
Team ROC filed court documents on behalf of Jay-Z and Yo Gotti highlighting the inhumane conditions at Mississippi State Penitentiary's Parchman Farm.
As Dallas jails continue to be an epicenter for the spread of novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, a class-action lawsuit was filed today against Sheriff Marian Brown as the supervisor of the Dallas County Jail.
“We are risking thousands of lives by not implementing basic health protocols inside the Dallas County Jail,” said Adriana Piñon, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Texas.
The lawsuit stated that Brown has obligations under the Texas Constitution and common law to maintain the jail in a clean and sanitary manner and to take immediate action to abate a public health nuisance.
“The Texas Constitution requires the sheriff to protect people in the Dallas County jail from COVID-19,” said Elizabeth Rossi, senior attorney at Civil Rights Corps.
This lawsuit is a means to require the sheriff to take the basic, minimal step of ensuring that medically vulnerable people in the jail can keep six feet apart from each other.
1. CIVIL RIGHTS OF FREEDMEN IN MISSISSIPPI
Sec.1. Be it enacted,... That all freedmen, free negroes, and mulattoes may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all the courts of law and equity of this State, and may acquire personal property, and choses in action, by descent or purchase, and may dispose of the same in the same manner and to the same extent that white persons may: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not be so construed as to allow any freedman, free negro, or mulatto to rent or lease any lands or tenements except in incorporated cities or towns, in which places the corporate authorities shall control the same....
Sec. 3....All freedmen, free negroes, or mulattoes who do now and have herebefore lived and cohabited together as husband and wife shall be taken and held in law as legally married, and the issue shall be taken and held as legitimate for all purposes; that it shall not be lawful for any freedman, free negro, or mulatto to intermarry with any white person; nor for any white person to intermarry with any freedman, free negro, or mulatto; and any person who shall so intermarry, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof shall be confined in the State penitentiary for life; and those shall be deemed freedmen, free negroes, and mulattoes who are of pure negro blood, and those descended from a negro to the third generation, inclusive, though one ancestor in each generation may have been a white person.
Sec. 4....In addition to cases in which freedmen, free negroes, and mulattoes are now by law competent witnesses, freedmen, free negroes, or mulattoes shall be competent in civil cases, when a party or parties to the suit, either plaintiff or plaintiffs, defendant or defendants, and a white person or white persons, is or are the opposing party or parties, plaintiff or plaintiffs, defendant or defendants. They shall also be competent witnesses in all criminal prosecutions where the crime charged is alleged to have been committed by a white person upon or
SYDNEY -Johnson and Johnson wants the High Court to overturn a landmark ruling on medical implants set to cost it millions in compensation to Australian women. Three of the medical device manufacturer's subsidiaries this week applied for special leave to appeal a judgment from March that reiterated the companies were liable for harm caused to […]
