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...The five officers involved, who were fired following Nichols’s death, were indicted by a grand jury in Memphis’s Shelby County on Thursday for second-degree murder, among other charges related to the killing...
...This week, US judge Sheryl Lipman in the western district of Tennessee issued a preliminary injunction against Lee’s order, blocking him from allowing parents in Shelby county to opt their children out of...
...I will not let them end this [legislative] session without changing some of these laws,” Alice O’Lenick, the Republican chair of the board of elections in Gwinnett County, outside of Atlanta, was quoted...
...The ruling in Shelby County vs Holder, rendered the “most effective piece of civil rights legislation ever passed by Congress”, toothless....
...A court-ordered inspection of Shelby County Men’s Jail in Memphis, where the company has a contract to provide medical care, last week concluded that “the Wellpath Covid-19 response plan is inadequate to...
...Forty-eight years later, in 2013, in Shelby County vs Holder, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, struck down that crucial provision of the act requiring states to seek federal approval before altering...
...Trump score: 4 — An outsider even when he was an insider Bob Corker , 64.Tennessee senator and chairman of its foreign relations committee....
...When solicitor general Donald Verrilli came before the US Supreme Court to argue the Obama administration’s side in Shelby County v Holder in February, Chief Justice John Roberts peppered him with trivia...
...But Shelby County argued that the law was no longer relevant, and on Tuesday the majority of the court agreed....
...“This is the department’s first action to protect voting rights following the Shelby County decision, but it will not be our last,” Mr Holder said at a National Urban League conference on Thursday, referring...
...“Some parts of the south have changed. Your county pretty much hasn’t,” Ms Sotomayor said to the Shelby lawyer, calling his county “the epitome of why this law was passed”....
...Republican senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions praised the deal, while Jo Bonner, a Republican congressman, commended the Air Force for “seeing beyond all of the rhetoric”....
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