Newest Minnesota Supreme Court justice: Anne McKeig
Dayton will appoint District Judge Anne McKeig to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Justice Christopher Dietzen’s upcoming retirement.…
TAGS:Supreme Court Affirms That Even ‘Reckless’ Domestic Abusers Should Lose Gun Rights
The Supreme Court ruled in a decision announced Monday that a domestic violence assault committed “recklessly” qualifies as a misdemeanor…
TAGS: #FirearmsThe Role of Probation in the Brock Turner Rape Case: A System Failure
The country’s attention has been riveted on the outcome of a single rape case in Santa Clara County to an…
TAGS:Streamlining Your Agency’s U Visa Policy and Practice
The National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP), in partnership with the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW),…
TAGS:The war in Congress over rape in the military, explained
Sexual assault is a huge problem in the US military. And for many victims, the process of reporting their crime…
TAGS: #MilitaryStanford sex-assault victim: ‘You took away my worth’
Standing in front of a full courtroom in Palo Alto on Thursday, the 23-year-old college graduate who was sexually assaulted…
TAGS:Presidential Proclamation — LGBT Pride Month, 2016
Since our founding, America has advanced on an unending path toward becoming a more perfect Union. This journey, led by…
TAGS: #LGBTQ+Should Domestic Violence Victims Go To Prison For Killing Their Abusers?
LadyKathryn Williams-Julien’s first childhood memory is of her father punching her mother in the face. She was 6. Her mother…
TAGS:Almost a Third of Mass Shooting Deaths in 2015 Were Related to Domestic Violence
Thirty-one percent of all mass shooting deaths in 2015 were related to domestic violence incidents, according to a New York…
TAGS:Controlling UK Man Jailed for 28 Months
Mohammed Anwaar, 27, pleaded guilty to coercive and controlling behaviour. Legislation to make this type of behaviour a criminal offence…
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