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Indian status retained or lost by Indian women marrying non-Indian men: Supreme Court of Canada: 1973 Chen-Oster v. Goldman Sachs & Co. certified class of over 2,000 female associates and vice-presidents challenging systemic discrimination in pay, promotions, and performance reviews: United States District Court for the Southern District of New ...
Hoyt v. Florida, 368 U.S. 57 (1961), was an appeal by Gwendolyn Hoyt, who had killed her husband and received a jail sentence for second degree murder.Although she had suffered mental and physical abuse in her marriage and showed neurotic, if not psychotic, behavior, a six-man jury deliberated for just 25 minutes before finding her guilty. [1]
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 ...
20 laundresses called a strike unless they received a uniformed raise. By the 1930s and 50s, different generations had taken up the struggle in the northeast, protesting against “slave markets”, locales frequented by white women seeking potential domestic help. In 2000, Domestic Workers United was born out of organizing efforts of Women
A woman at the centre of a widely derided complaint attended rallies and protests with extremist groups and posted antisemitic content as she joined far-right book ban activism, reports find
Sarah Lynne Reed [1] (22 June 1984 – 11 January 2016) was a British prisoner waiting for psychiatric reports before a possible trial. A woman with a history of mental health problems, and a victim of police brutality a few years earlier, Reed died while on remand in Holloway prison. [2]
Florida's "stand your ground" law, a controversial doctrine adopted in multiple U.S. states that allows individuals to use force in self-defense scenarios, played a role in those decisions.
A Florida woman was sentenced to life in prison Monday after she was found guilty of second-degree murder for zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase, leaving him inside for hours until he died. Sarah ...