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Selective enforcement has become a topic of great discussion in the illegal immigration debate. The 2011 "Morton Memo" [7] laid out enforcement priorities for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and was intended to channel limited resources into prioritized pursuit of cases involving criminals and felons. It was interpreted as the ...
upholding the Selective Service Act of 1948 requiring only men to register for the military draft: Supreme Court of the United States: 1981 Schultz v. Wheaton Glass Co. equal pay for men and women: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit: 1970 Stanton v. Stanton: age of majority, with implications for child support: Supreme Court ...
Based on these changes, the National Coalition for Men, a non-profit men's rights organization, filed a lawsuit against the Selective Service System in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on April 4, 2013, arguing that with the Pentagon's change in female participation in combat roles, the rationale behind ...
Selective enforcement alleged. As evidence of the city’s selective enforcement of the residency requirement, the lawsuit notes that the city council in 2021 waived the residency requirement for ...
In jurisprudence, selective prosecution is a procedural defense in which defendants argue that they should not be held criminally liable for breaking the law because the criminal justice system discriminated against them by choosing to prosecute. In claims of selective prosecution, defendants essentially argue that it is irrelevant whether they ...
In November 2024, co-captain of the San Jose State University women’s volleyball team, Brooke Slusser, joined a lawsuit against the NCAA for allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports.
The Selective Service System was first founded in 1917 to feed bodies into America's World War I efforts. It was disbanded in 1920, fired back up in 1940, re-formatted in 1948, and then terminated ...
Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, 547 U.S. 9 (2006), was a lengthy and high-profile U.S. legal case interpreting and applying the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO): a law originally drafted to combat the mafia and organized crime, the Hobbs Act: an anti-extortion law prohibiting interference with commerce by violence or threat of violence, [1] and ...