On April 30, 2026, Texas executed James Broadnax, a Black man who was sentenced to death for the robbery and murder of two ...

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A federal jury in California rules against Costco Wholesale (NasdaqGS:COST) in a disability discrimination lawsuit involving ...

ROCHESTER — A 10-member jury is set to hear an Olmsted County social worker’s discrimination claims from a lawsuit filed in 2022. “She has been humiliated and certainly put in a position where she is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Wells Fargo supervisor who had been fired by the banking giant won a disability discrimination lawsuit against it and was ...

DALLAS – A federal jury has awarded $2 million in punitive damages against SkyWest Airlines, a Utah-based airline, and $170,000 for emotional harm to Sarah Budd, a female parts clerk, to settle a sex ...

A jury found the HR trade organization liable for racial discrimination and retaliation against a former employee.

In the case of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 US. 79 (1986), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lawyers are prohibited from exercising peremptory challenges based on the prospective juror’s race, as it ...

Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (ME) on Wednesday joined her Democratic colleague Jeanne Shaheen (NH) as a co-sponsor of now-bipartisan legislation to prevent discrimination against LGBTQ+ ...

A Napa County jury found that a Napa police officer faced discrimination in a 2022 promotion decision but ultimately ruled in favor of the city, concluding the outcome would have been the same even ...

A New York jury rejected accusations by Alan Pardee, a co-founder of the now-defunct firm, that he was forced out because of his race.

Editor’s note: Miriam Krinsky is the executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution, a national network of elected prosecutors seeking criminal justice reforms; a former federal prosecutor; and the ...