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Jewish man denied franchise by Christian auto repair company takes fight to Fifth Circuit
A prospective franchisee is asking the appeals court to depart from precedent and apply a 19th-century civil rights law to people of the Jewish faith.
Austria hotel's burkini ban discriminatory, court finds
Austria does not explicitly restrict Muslim dress for women and girls over 14. But the law in effect prevents Muslim them from wearing the burqa and niqab, though the burkini is an exception.
Human rights groups sound alarm over murders of Mexican journalists
Amnesty International and the United Nations expressed an urgent need for Mexican authorities to ramp up investigations into the murders of an activist and a journalist confirmed dead one day apart.
Fifth Circuit scrutinizes police shooting of mentally ill woman
The children of Melissa Perez, who was shot and killed by San Antonio police during a schizophrenic episode, are challenging the dismissal of their civil rights lawsuit.
ICE points finger at protesters over recent arrests at NYC immigration courts
The agency says it has made at least five arrests in Manhattan immigration courts since May 18, when a federal judge barred the agency from broadly making this kind of arrest.
European rights court says Italy’s anti-Mafia freemasonry raid went too far
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Italy violated privacy rights by collecting thousands of freemasonry membership records during a parliamentary anti-Mafia investigation, even though the inquiry itself pursued a legitimate public interest.
NFL accused of collecting, sharing website users' private data
Fans claim that even after opting out of sharing cookies, NFL.com still secretly runs trackers on the site as soon as a webpage opens.
Dallas College faces Title VII claim
DALLAS — A federal court in Texas partially granted summary judgment to Dallas College on claims brought by a former biology professor who says she was forced to resign for representing fellow faculty members in discrimination grievances. The court dismissed the professor’s breach of contract claim, but allowed her Title VII retaliation to proceed because genuine factual disputes exist concerning whether an error in the community college’s new scheduling system was the true reason she lost her adjunct teaching assignments.
Feds face suit over outing asylum seekers to Iran
According to the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund, the U.S. approached Iran in March 2025 to discuss sharing ICE detainees’ protected information and has continued sharing despite the war.
European court faults Lithuania over CIA black site tied to USS Cole suspect
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Lithuania violated the rights of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri by hosting a secret CIA prison, exposing him to an unfair military trial and possible execution after years in the agency’s covert detention network.
Immigrants’ applications must be adjudicated
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal court in Ohio granted 15 immigrants’ request for an injunction that requires U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to adjudicate their applications for permanent resident benefits. The foreign nationals — hailing from Burma, Canada, Iran, Nigeria, Syria, Tanzania and Venezuela — sued to challenge the Trump-era proclamations that treat nationality from these countries as a negative factor when considering immigrant benefit applications. Their applications must be adjudicated within 30 days.