Virginia hemp regulations catch ear of Fourth Circuit panel
Hemp industry members say Congress specifically prohibited states from creating their own strict hemp regulations.
Ninth Circuit finds that convicted felons also have Second Amendment rights
In a significant shift, the appellate court ruled that a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court means that convicted felons can't automatically be deprived of their right to bear arms.
Racial harassment
CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit upheld an Illinois federal court’s decision to throw out most of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s claims on behalf of Black nursing home workers who say they worked in a racially hostile working environment. The appellate judges ruled that whatever insensitivity and harassment the employees faced at work, none of it rose to the level of pervasiveness or severity necessary to sustain the lawsuit.
