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Removing the “Community” from “Community College”
Shoreline Community College is getting its first bachelor’s degree. This could mean a name change in the future. As of summer quarter 2024, Shoreline will be offering a bachelor’s degree in dental hygiene, making the school eligible to be named “Shoreline College”. The dental hygiene degree offered will last every quarter starting in the summer […]
Redlining, Racial Covenants, and Housing Discrimination in Tacoma
Tacoma has a documented history of rampant housing discrimination in the early to mid-twentieth century. The city used a web of legal and customary practices to codify residential segregation. Beginning in the 1900s and continuing into the 1950s, the private sector in real estate used racial covenants as legally binding agreements to bar people of […]
Judges OK warrantless searches of locked glove boxes
Containers in a vehicle’s interior do not enjoy greater protections from warrantless searches, even if they are locked, judges ruled Wednesday. A legal exception that allows police to search vehicles without first obtaining a warrant in some circumstances extends to locked glove boxes and other secured compartments within a vehicle’s interior, a state appellate panel […]
Colorado Supreme Court overrules itself on felony DUI
The Colorado Supreme Court took the unusual step on Monday of partially overruling its own landmark decision from less than four years ago, concluding drunk drivers who were not tried in accordance with state law are not entitled to automatic reversal of their convictions. The court’s majority also clarified that when settled law changes during […]
Lake attorney suspended from practicing law for 60 days for lying to the Supreme Court
Bryan Blehm, a Scottsdale divorce attorney who represented failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in her bid to overturn her 2022 defeat and lied to the state Supreme Court on her behalf, has been suspended from practicing law in Arizona for two months. On Friday, an Arizona Supreme Court panel ruled that Blehm’s law license will be […]
N.J. Trooper Fired After Nazi-Affiliated ‘Blood Honor’ Tattoos Were Discovered
Here’s a question: Why does it appear to be so difficult for police departments across America to keep racists and white supremacists out of their ranks? There are so many instances in which cops are hired and, in some cases, rehired or allowed to keep their jobs after it was discovered that they hate Black people — including the […]
Federal appeals court hears challenge to Thirteenth Amendment prohibitions on racial discrimination
A white man who tried to run a Black man off a Florida road and yelled racial slurs at him asked a federal appeals court in Jacksonville on Tuesday to vacate his conviction brought under the Thirteenth Amendment. Jordan Leahy was indicted by the government in 2022 on two counts of interfering with federally-protected activities under civil […]
A supreme court case about fisherman is flying under the radar, but could soon ‘create chaos’
The US supreme court is poised to decide the fate of a decades-old legal framework that has helped determine how the federal government regulates everything from pollution to financial markets. Cases on abortion , homelessness and Donald Trump grabbing the spotlight, the so-called Chevron deference doctrine has flown somewhat under the radar. But it could be among the court’s most influential […]
Lawmakers look at allowing judges to resentence people serving long prison terms
Charles Longshore, author of the Judicial Discretion Act, testifies at a committee hearing while incarcerated at Washington Corrections Center. Washington Senate lawmakers on Thursday discussed legislation that would enable judges to review and shorten long prison sentences, including life sentences. House Bill 2001 , also known as the Judicial Discretion Act, was written by Charles Longshore, a […]