Ohio Man, Izmir Koch Sentenced to Prison for 30 Months for Hate Crime
Izmir Koch, 34, of Huber Heights, Ohio, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for beating a man he believed to be Jewish outside of a Cincinnati restaurant. Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the More...
Shasta County Couple, Nery and Maura Martinez Indicted for Forced Labor of Guatemalan Woman and Her Daughters
An indictment was unsealed today following the arrests of Nery Martinez, 50, and Maura Martinez, 50, of Shasta Lake. The indictment charges the defendants with conspiracy, forced labor, and alien harboring for More...
Mississippi Corrections Officer, Sharalyn McClain Charged with Beating Inmate
A federal grand jury indicted Sharalyn McClain, 28, a former Mississippi Department of Corrections officer, for using excessive force against an inmate at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. The indictment More...
SCOTUS rejects Oregon baker gay marriage case due to Jack Phillips ruling
In a victory for Sweet Cakes Bakery and Melissa and Aaron Klein, today the U.S. Supreme Court sent their case back to the Oregon Court of Appeals in light of the June 2018 decision in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. “Lesbian” More...
Human Trafficking Attorney: Understand the Roles and Benefits
Human trafficking is a misunderstood concept. Nowadays, awareness of this concept is increasing among lawyers and ordinary people. A human traffiking attorney is responsible for representing the victim of human More...
Do you need a defense lawyer? Roles and Responsibilities
Imagine you have charged with an unknown crime that you didn’t commit? These crimes can affect your whole life; therefore, you will need a qualified representation, such as the San Diego license defense lawyer. More...
Synagogue attacker, Nolan Brewer Sentenced to 3 years in federal prison
United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced that Nolan Brewer, 21, of Eminence, Indiana, was sentenced in federal court yesterday evening to three years in prison for conspiring to violate the civil rights More...
Supreme Court rejects transgender bathroom, privacy case
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to take up an important case involving a Pennsylvania school district that disregarded its students’ bodily privacy rights when it opened its high school locker rooms and More...
California Man, John Earnest Indicted for Federal Hate Crimes Related to Poway Synagogue Shooting
John T. Earnest of Rancho Peñasquitos was indicted by a federal grand jury this morning on civil rights, hate crime, and firearm charges in connection with the murder of one person and the attempted murder of 53 More...
Caring Families fights against Connecticut discrimination against faith based pregnancy center
An injunction filed is to stop enforcement of the city ordinance that compels the pregnancy center and its Mobile Care ministry to post signs and messages stating, “This facility does not have a licensed medical More...
Correctional Officers, Robert Berger and Nathaniel Morris Charged in Beating an Inmate
U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Robert Berger, 35, and Nathaniel Morris, 47, both of Philadelphia, PA, were charged by Indictment with depriving an inmate at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional More...
Four Christian Activist Charged and Imprisoned by Hong Kong Court
(International Christian Concern) –On April 23, a Hong Kong court has handed down jail terms of up to 16 months to four pro-democracy activists accused of “inciting” the 2014 Occupy Central movement. The More...
Two Trenton Police Officers Charged with Civil Rights Violations, Obstruction of Justice
Two Trenton police officers have been charged with civil rights and obstruction of justice charges for allegedly assaulting a man they were arresting, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today. One of the officers, More...
Justice Department Closes Review into the Death of Aaron Bailey
Josh J. Minkler, the United States Attorney, announced today that the independent federal review into the fatal shooting of Indianapolis resident Aaron Bailey on June 29, 2017, found insufficient evidence to support More...
Paterson Police Officer, Roger Then Sentenced for Concealing Civil Rights Crime
A City of Paterson police officer was sentenced today to six months in prison for concealing the assault of an attempted suicide victim by another police officer at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Paterson, U.S. More...
Police Officer, Ruben McAusland Sentenced to 66 Months for Assaulting Hospital Patient
A City of Paterson police officer was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for violating an individual’s civil rights by assaulting him at a hospital and repeatedly distributing narcotics, including drugs he More...
Ohio Man, James Fields Pleads Guilty to 29 Federal Hate Crimes for August 2017 Car Attack
James Alex Fields Jr., 21, the Ohio man who drove his car into a diverse crowd of counter-protestors on Aug. 12, 2017, killing one woman and injuring dozens, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to 29 counts More...
CAIR still fighting Boston Marathon bombing Ibragim Todashev case, attacking FBI agent Aaron McFarlane
Prosecutors have asked U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. to provide Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers, who are working on an appeal of his conviction, to keep the evidence secured. More...
New Jersey Police Officer, Eudy Ramos Charged with Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights
A federal grand jury indicted a City of Paterson, New Jersey, police officer for conspiring to violate individuals’ civil rights by stopping and searching people in their vehicles and on the street and stealing More...
House Democrats pass bill to change Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include LGBT, transgenders, make them a ‘protected class’
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill that threatens the free exercise of religion and free speech. H.R. 5, known as the Equality Act, which broadly imposes the LGBT agenda and does not More...
