Tag: Law, Crime & Court

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. saw victory in federal court today when it was granted temporary exemption from the 2010 healthcare law that requires it offer workers insurance coverage for birth control.

The George Zimmerman trial is all people have been talking about since the verdict came through on Saturday. The case has sparked a discussion about racism and our justice system.

Today (Sunday) at 6 p.m. there will be a rally on Division and Ruby streets in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman. On Saturday Zimmerman was found not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American high-schooler who was killed last year. Zimmerman was accused by many of being motivated by racism.

On Tuesday a sexual abuse victim filed a lawsuit against the Catholic dioceses of Yakima and Spokane.

The lawsuit filed in Spokane County Superior Court claims that beginning in 1961, the Rev. Joseph Sondergeld sexually abused the victim, then 9 years old, at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Roslyn.

Last week, a federal district court in Montana dismissed a lawsuit by Freedom From Religion Foundation seeking theU.S. Forest Service to remove a privately designed and maintained monument to soldiers who gave their lives in World War II. The organization argued that the 60-year-old monument — which stands in the middle of Big Mountain ski resort in Whitefish, Mont. — could not be displayed on government-owned land.

According to the Associated Press four men are suing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in federal court because they claim they were sexually abused during Boy Scout of America functions in Idaho.

Three of the men say they were in troops sponsored by the church and were abused by scout leaders in the early 1980s.

For Raed Jarrar, the FBI’s decision Wednesday (June 5)  to begin tracking hate crimes against Arabs is a battle won in a larger war.

“This is just one part of fixing the system, because unfortunately many hate crimes against Arab Americans have not been noticed,” said Jarrar, spokesman for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.