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12/18/2025 07:00 AM EST
The United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division announced that it has secured a settlement agreement with Tekshapers Inc., (Tekshapers), a Michigan company that provides IT recruitment and staffing services, to address allegations that the company violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) when it advertised employment opportunities favoring temporary employment-based visa holders over U.S. workers.
12/18/2025 07:00 AM EST
Braden Birdsong, 28, of Oklahoma City, appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Jones for the Western District of Oklahoma today and was sentenced to serve 120 months in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to a federal hate crime violation.
12/18/2025 07:00 AM EST
The Justice Department announced today that the owners and operators of rental properties in and around Athens County, Ohio have agreed to pay $480,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that their former rental manager, Joseph Earl Lucas, sexually harassed female tenants and prospective tenants of rental properties for almost twenty years, in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
12/18/2025 07:00 AM EST
The Justice Department announced today that it secured a settlement agreement with the State of South Carolina to resolve the department's findings and complaint alleging that South Carolina violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead v. L.C. by unnecessarily segregating adults with serious mental illnesses in institutional settings, called Community Residential Care Facilities.
12/18/2025 07:00 AM EST
Joshua M. Rogers, 33, of Tennessee was sentenced yesterday to 56 months in prison for his role in destroying evidence related to a police officer's fatal shooting of a man identified by the initials R.H.
12/17/2025 07:00 AM EST
A federal grand jury in Columbia, South Carolina returned an indictment charging Jonathan Andrew Felkel, 34, with violating the housing rights of his black neighbor, J.M., and for using a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence.
12/16/2025 07:00 AM EST
Today, the Justice Department filed a complaint against the Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) alleging that the territory's unreasonable delays and conditions on lawful gun owners' rights create an unconstitutional permitting process in violation of the Second Amendment. Numerous applicants complained that VIPD is unreasonably delaying their gun permit application decisions and added unreasonable conditions, including bolted-in gun safes, prior to issuing gun licenses. Finally, VIPD continues to enforce a proper cause regulation nearly identical to the law that the U.S. Supreme Court previously struck down in another case years ago.
12/15/2025 07:00 AM EST
A 55-year-old Everett, Washington man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five years in prison for three federal felonies including a pipe bomb explosion that destroyed a neighbor's car. Steven Goldstine pleaded guilty in September 2025, to unlawful possession of a destructive device; unlawful possession of ammunition; and unlawful possession of a firearm. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge John H. Chun said "This case involves serious and quite frankly horrifying conduct. Add in the racist statements it is disgusting conduct."
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