MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Oct. 8 [Category: Sociological] -- The Equal Justice Initiative posted the following news: * * * Alabama Judge Draws Rebuke from Supreme Court Justice * Steven Mulkey was charged with capital murder in the 2018 killings of two hotel owners in Irondale, Alabama. During jury selection, his Jefferson County trial judge held a potential juror in contempt for being 30 minutes late to court and ordered him arrested in front of all the other potential jurors, leading jurors to express fear of sharing their views about the case more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 [Category: Political] -- America First Legal, a civil rights organization, posted the following news release: * * * America First Legal Asks the Supreme Court to Stop Washington from Forcing Naked Men into a Women's Spa * America First Legal (AFL), in partnership with Jonathan F. Mitchell of Mitchell Law PLLC, has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Olympus Spa v. Armstrong. The Washington State Human Rights Commission (the Commission) is forcing the spa to allow naked biological men who claim to b more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 [Category: Political] -- America First Legal, a civil rights organization, posted the following news release: * * * America First Legal Backs HUD Proposal to End Unlawful Disparate-Impact Rules Under Title VI * Today, America First Legal (AFL) submitted a comment to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in support of its proposal to amend its regulations implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to remove provisions related to disparate-impact liability. AFL is urging HUD to finalize the r more PR

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Oct. 8 -- Vanderbilt Law School posted the following news: * * * Nadine Strossen on Social Justice, Civil Discourse, and the First Amendment * Vanderbilt Law School's George Barrett Social Justice Program and the American Constitution Society welcomed Nadine Strossen for a student-led conversation on free speech, social justice, and the First Amendment. Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School, served as national president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 1991 t more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 [Category: Environment] -- Earthworks issued the following news release: * * * Panamanian Organizations Reject a Proposal to Revive Cobre Panama Under a Bogus Self-Financed Closure Scheme * Lilian Gonzalez Guevara, Executive Director of the Centro de Incidencia Ambiental, lgonzalezguevara@ciampanama.org This Wednesday, the Panama Is Worth More Without Mining movement, the Technical Working Group on Mine Closure of the UICN Panamanian Committee, community leaders from Donoso and Omar Torrijos, and allied organizations exp more PR

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 [Category: Media] -- ProPublica, an independent nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism, issued the following news release: * * * ProPublica Editor-In-Chief Stephen Engelberg Wins Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award * The G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and UCLA Anderson School of Management honored ProPublica Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg on Thursday with its lifetime achievement award at the 2026 Gerald Loeb Awards in New York City. The Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a journalist whose career  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Oct. 9 -- Tulane University Law School posted the following news: * * * Rebecca Bratspies Weighs in on the Significance of Landmark Climate Case * The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Oct. 6 in Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. v. City of Boulder, a case that could have significant implications for how communities pursue legal claims against fossil fuel companies over climate-related harms. Professor Rebecca Bratspies, the Oliver Houck Chair in Environmental Law at Tulane Law School, breaks down what is at stake, what t more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 [Category: Energy] -- The Institute for Energy Research posted the following commentary: * * * SCOTUS Begins Hearing Arguments in Suncor v. Boulder County * This week, the Supreme Court began its new term by hearing arguments in Suncor v. Boulder County, a climate lawsuit. This is not the first state-level climate lawsuit to reach the Supreme Court, but it may be significant because it focuses on a procedural question: whether federal law preempts state-level climate lawsuits. Suncor argues that climate change regulation  more PR

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 9 [Category: Think Tank] -- The Buckeye Institute, an independent research and educational institution that says its mission is to advance free-market public policy, posted the following news release: * * * The Buckeye Institute Urges SCOTUS to End Discriminatory Workplace Initiatives * Columbus, OH - On Friday, The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in Young v. Colorado Department of Corrections, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case and look to Justice John Marshall Harlan's dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson more PR