Justice Department issues freeze for civil rights division
The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.
Justice Department Orders a Halt to Civil Rights Work
It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or violence.
Department of Justice freezes all civil rights division cases: report
The Department of Justice sent a memo to the interim director of the civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation and a stop to any new cases.
Justice Department temporarily freezes civil-rights litigation, police overhauls: reports
The Justice Department froze civil-rights litigation to allow the incoming Trump administration to review the agencies priorities, reports said.
Trump's new Justice Department leadership orders a freeze on civil rights cases
The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration
Trump’s wrath continues with indefinite halt of Justice Department’s civil rights division
The Justice Department instructed its civil rights division to pause ongoing litigation and refrain from initiating any new cases, according to The Washington Post. The directive, issued Wednesday (Jan.
Trump’s Justice Department halts police reform agreements
The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found a pattern of misconduct, according to a memo issued Wednesday. “The new administration may wish to reconsider settlements and consent decrees negotiated and approved by the prior administration,
Justice Dept. revokes job offers to young lawyers in elite honors program
Students or graduates from Harvard, Duke, Georgetown, Stanford and other top law schools lost job offers from the Attorney General’s Honors Program.
Washington judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order
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Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4 billion in settlement to lawsuits over the toll of OxyContin
Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller.
US judge to hear states' bid to block Trump birthright citizenship order
The lawsuit filed in Seattle has been progressing the fastest of the five cases brought over the executive order.