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Edna May Griffin (1909 – February 8, 2000) was an American civil rights pioneer and human rights activist.Known as the "Rosa Parks of Iowa", her court battle against the Katz Drug Store in Des Moines in 1948, State of Iowa v.
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, 603 U.S. 520 (2024), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that local government ordinances with civil and criminal penalties for camping on public land do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment of homeless people. [1]
Justice Douglas reversed for a 5-3 majority. He held that the provisions of 207(b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 making the remedies provided in Title II of the Act the exclusive means of enforcing rights based on such part do not preclude a criminal prosecution of the defendants under 18 USC 241, since the exclusive-remedy provision applies only to enforcement of substantive rights to ...
How did a fight between a 14-year-old girl and a group of her teenage friends end in murder? “Under the Bridge,” a new true-crime series on Hulu, is set to show viewers a dramatized version of ...
Karlene Payne, a 31-year-old medical worker, knifed Joshua Johnson, 36, in the leg as the two fought inside their apartment on Lincoln Avenue near Bruckner Boulevard in Mott Haven around 4:15 a.m ...
Sef Gonzales (born 16 September 1980) is a Filipino Australian man who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the July 2001 murders of his father Teodoro "Teddy" Gonzales (46), his mother Mary Loiva Gonzales (43), and his sister Clodine Gonzales (18), in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Josephine Johnson (1910–1990) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist. Josephine or Josie Johnson may also refer to: Josie R. Johnson (born 1930), African American civil rights activist; Josie Johnson (ski jumper), American ski jumper; see 2023–24 FIS Ski Jumping Inter-Continental Cup; Josie Johnson, a character in the 1940 film 20 ...
United States v. Johnson, 529 U.S. 53 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court case. Johnson was sentenced in federal court for multiple violations of federal criminal provisions. He was sentenced terms of imprisonment for the violations and, in addition, a three-year mandatory term of supervised release for the drug possession offenses.