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US citizen mom-of-three sues Kristi Noem’s ICE after agents smashed her car window in viral Mother’s Day arrest

Lawyers accuse Trump administration of ‘state-sanctioned cruelty’ for arrest on the family’s way to church

The Independent UK

US green card holder sues ICE over claims of ‘violent assault’

Hilda Ramirez Sanan and her two US citizen children were ‘illegally and forcefully detained’, the lawsuit alleges

The Guardian - US

Trump sued by 22 states and pregnant women over ‘flagrantly illegal’ birthright citizenship order

Lawsuits filed across the country warn Trump’s actions will have ‘overwhelming and devastating’ impacts to families

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State police recruit's death in Massachusetts overshadows graduation ceremony

Friends and family of a state police recruit who died during training protested outside their graduation ceremony, demand to know how he died

The Independent UK

Large police presence at funeral for Massachusetts recruit who died during training exercise

A large law enforcement presence has turned out in Worcester to honor a state police recruit who died after becoming unresponsive during a training exercise

The Independent UK

‘Affirmative action for the privileged’: why Democrats are fighting legacy admissions

Critics argue that university’s preference toward legacy applicants exacerbates existing inequalities in higher education

The Guardian - US

US Education Dept opens probe into Harvard’s legacy admissions

A complaint earlier this month triggered the investigation, which will consider whether the practice is discriminatory.

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The next campus battle: Legacy admission

Lawyers for Civil Rights' Oren Sellstrom explains how vital evidence revealed in the Havard case can now be used

Salon

US groups file complaint challenging Harvard ‘legacy admissions’

Civil rights groups say Ivy League university’s policy of considering family ties to donors, alumni is ‘discriminatory’.

Al Jazeera

Activists sue to cut admissions to kids of alumni at top unis after Supreme Court ruling

Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the suit Monday on behalf of Black and Latino community groups in New England, alleging that Harvard’s admissions system violates the Civil Rights Act

Daily Mirror

Harvard sued over ‘legacy admissions’ after Supreme Court targets affirmative action

70 per cent of the college’s donor-related and legacy applicants are white, reporting finds

The Independent UK

Top Florida officials added to lawsuit over Martha’s Vineyard migrant flights

A civil rights group that has sued Florida governor Ron DeSantis for tricking two planeloads of South and Central American asylum seekers into boarding charter flights bound for the liberal Massachusetts community of Martha’s Vineyard has added two top Sunshine State officials as defendants in their lawsuit.

The Independent UK

DeSantis’ chief of staff, public safety czar now named in lawsuit over migrant flights

MIAMI — Two members of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration are among new defendants named in a class-action lawsuit filed against the governor over the plan to fly 49 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard earlier this year.

Miami Herald

Student who sued military over HIV policy settles case

A student at a military college who sued top Pentagon officials after he was deemed unfit for service because he tested positive for HIV has settled his lawsuit and plans to pursue his dream of becoming an Army officer

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‘They were preyed upon’: immigration lawyers denounce transport of migrants

Florida governor Ron DeSantis transported asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in ‘appalling’ political stunt

Axios

Migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard promised cash and job help

Lawyers for Civil Rights shared a brochure on Monday that they say migrants were given "at some point during their expulsion and relocation from Texas and Florida."

The Independent UK

Texas sheriff to investigate Florida for flying migrants to Martha’s Vineyard

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar says migrants ‘have every right to be where they are, and I believe they were preyed upon’

The Independent UK

Migrants’ lawyers call for criminal investigation into DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard stunt

Lawyers for Civil Rights organisation is representing more than 30 Venezualans dumped on island by GOP governor

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Lawyers for Martha's Vineyard migrants blast "political stunt," urge Feds to open criminal probe

The lawyers said their clients "were induced to board airplanes and cross state lines under false pretenses."

The Independent UK

Military college student sues armed forces over HIV policy

A military college student who says he was removed from his duties for testing positive for HIV is suing state and federal military officials

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