Tag: civil
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1960s civil rights protesters who staged historic sit-in finally have arrest records cleared
Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself arrested. Finally on Friday, that arrest and the records of six of his friends were erased as a judge signed an order…
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Supreme Court rejects Michael Cohen’s civil rights claim against Trump
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen’s last-ditch effort to revive a civil rights claim against his former boss Donald Trump. The justices left in place lower court rulings that said Cohen could not pursue his allegation that then-President Trump and other officials violated his rights by putting him in…
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sexual assault in a new civil suit
Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing a wave of new assault accusations. NBC News has obtained a new civil lawsuit filed Sunday in the Southern District of New York by Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee. The suits alleges Combs sexual assaulted a man in 2022. Buzbee told NBC News he plans to file more suits Sunday evening.…
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs hit with new civil suit alleging rape of a college student two decades ago
Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing a new civil lawsuit filed in federal court Monday. The complaint, first obtained by NBC News, was filed in the Southern District of New York on behalf of one female, who is not named in the filing. The incident alleged in the complaint dates back to 2004 and includes allegations…
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Walz and Vance agree to disagree in a largely civil debate
NEW YORK — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he believes his rival for vice president, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, wants to solve the nation’s immigration crisis, but he questioned if former President Donald Trump really does. Vance acknowledged that Walz wants to solve the problem, too, but he questioned if Vice President Kamala Harris…