Civil rights violations

Civil rights violations

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  IRS commissioner ousted over tea party targeting

  Hurrying to check a growing controversy, President Barack Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service late Wednesday amid an ... 

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  Holder: Potential civil rights violations at IRS

  Attorney General Eric Holder says the FBI's criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service could include potential civil rights violations, ... 

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  AP Exclusive: IRS knew tea party targeted in 2011

  Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general's ... 

• Appeals court strikes down union poster rule

  In another blow to the nation's dwindling labor unions, an appeals court on Tuesday struck down a federal rule that would have required millions of ... 

• Lawsuit tests bloggers' freedom of speech rights

  A colleague of the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart is asking a federal court of appeals to throw out a defamation case brought against him ... 

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  Law gives tribes new authority over non-Indians

  American Indian tribes have tried everything from banishment to charging criminal acts as civil offenses to deal with non-Indians who commit crimes ... 

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  Lawyers: NYPD's Muslim spying violates 1985 pact

  Civil rights lawyers urged a judge Monday to stop the New York Police Department from routinely observing Muslims in restaurants, bookstores and ... 

• San Francisco nudity ban upheld in federal court

  A federal judge cleared the way Tuesday for the city of San Francisco to ban most displays of public nudity, ruling that an ordinance set to take ... 

• Report: Miss. school discipline too hard on kids

  Civil rights advocates say harsh disciplinary practices at many Mississippi schools lead to children being expelled and even incarcerated for minor ... 

• Texas inmate waits more than 30 years for retrial

  A Kansas man who remains in a Texas prison more than 30 years after his murder conviction was overturned has become the subject of a fight between the ... 

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  Detroit man accused of murder at 14 to get $1.1M

  The city of Detroit has been ordered to pay $1.1 million to a young man who was rousted out of bed as a 14-year-old, charged with murder and held in ...