While the Supreme Court has ruled in Turner v. Rogers, that the state, under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, is not always required to appoint public counsel in civil cases where the respondent is facing threat of incarceration, it also ruled that, under the circumstances surrounding Michael…
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Foreclosures in Muskegon County, Michigan have dropped 97% from about 75 per week to about 2 per week after the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS) could not foreclose by non-judicial process by way of newspaper advertisements. MERS must seek to foreclose by judicial…
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Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were…
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According to the NYT and Democracy Now: New guidelines will allow FBI agents to investigate people and organizations “proactively” without firm evidence for suspecting criminal activity. We speak to former FBI agent Mike German, who now works at the American Civil Liberties Union, and Texas activist Scott Crow, who has…
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The New York Times reported Monday that AG Beau Biden of Deleware and AG Eric Schneiderman of NY have requested information from Bank of New York Mellon and Deutsche Bank, with regard to their loan orgination and documentation practices, foreclosure procedures [read: fraud], and improper administration of the securitized mortgages.…
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From the Pilipino Workers’ Center of Southern California: The California Assembly approved AB 889 . . . the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, sponsored by Assemblymembers Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) and V.M. Pérez (D-Coachella) passed. The bill now heads to the Senate for approval. Co-sponsored by Assemblymembers Allen (D- Sonoma),…
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Justice Kagan recusing herself, the Supreme Court, by a 4-4 vote, affirmed the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Flores-Villar v. United States. The plaintiff, Flores-Villar, was born in Mexico to an U.S. citizen father and Mexican mother; the parents were not married. Current law provides that, in order for a child…
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