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General Mills Sued For Racial Discrimination And Retaliation

August 7, 2025 Niko Georgiades, Unicorn Riot. , , ,
Minneapolis, MN — As corporations across the United States gleefully regress back to their racist roots with the second Trump term, a fired worker in Minnesota is fighting back. General Mills, headquartered in a western Minneapolis suburb, is facing a lawsuit filed by a Black worker who claims he was fired as retaliation for speaking out against racist Black History Month literature that General Mills passed to employees. L. Lee Tyus Jr. was a packing technician at General Mills for five plus years before being fired in March 2025, according to the complaint (pdf). A month before his firing, General Mills distributed tabletop flyers titled “Fun Facts About Black History” that featured information on the Tulsa Race Massacre and the Black Codes.

Badar Khan Suri, Georgetown Researcher Abducted by ICE, Speaks Out

August 3, 2025 Badar Khan Suri and Hira Ahmed, Acacia. , , , ,
Dr. Badar Khan Suri was returning home from a campus iftar on March 17 when masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents jumped out of an unmarked car and detained him outside his home. He had not been charged with any crime. Suri is an interdisciplinary scholar focusing on religion, violence, and peace, especially in the Middle East and South Asia, and works as a researcher at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Over the course of two months, ICE held him in detention centers throughout the South. Since his release on May 14, he has been challenging his warrantless arrest and detention in federal court, bringing claims under the First and Fifth Amendments.

UK High Court Grants Palestine Action Judicial Review Over Proscription

July 30, 2025 Areeb Ullah, Middle East Eye. , , ,
A High Court Judge has ruled in favour of Palestine Action and granted the direct action group a judicial review to oppose the UK government’s ban on the pro-Palestine group. Justice Martin Chamberlain ruled on Wednesday that he would grant Palestine Action’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, a judicial review after hearing submissions from her lawyer and the government. The judge also dismissed an additional attempt to temporarily lift the suspension of the group and set the judicial review to take place in November 2025 over three days. The ruling marks a setback for the government, which has faced criticism over its handling of the proscription and concerns that the ban on Palestine Action could be used to stifle criticism of Israel.

Colombia’s Courts Finds Álvaro Uribe Guilty After 13-Year Judicial Process

July 29, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. , , , , , , ,
On Monday, Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia, 44th judge of the Bogotá criminal court, found former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez guilty of witness bribery and procedural fraud. The verdict concludes a 13-year judicial process fraught with political tensions, complex evidence, and heated debate over the independence of Colombia’s judiciary. At the hearing’s start, Heredia sent a forceful message to the country: “The wait is over. We want to tell Colombia that justice has arrived.” The judge called this one of the most significant moments in recent judicial history.

Apache Women Ask Courts To Halt Land Swap For Oak Flat

July 29, 2025 Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic. , , , , ,
A group of Apache women asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to halt a disputed land exchange at the center of a long battle over plans to build a huge copper mine at Oak Flat. It's the fourth lawsuit that seeks to stop the U.S. Forest Service from signing over title to the site, held sacred by Apache peoples and culturally significant by other tribes, to Resolution Copper in exchange for other plots of environmentally sensitive land in Arizona. The four women, who all have spiritual and cultural connections to the 2,200-acre campground in Tonto National Forest about 60 miles east of Phoenix, filed their suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia July 24.

‘Northumberland 2’ Mink Fur Farm Case: RICO Charge Dropped

July 27, 2025 Chris Schiano, Unicorn Riot. , , ,
Sunbury, PA – Two women from Massachusetts and several dozen supporters from around the country traveled to a small central Pennsylvania town for the first major hearing in a felony case stemming from their arrest last November. The ‘Northumberland 2’ – Celeste Legere and Cara Mitrano – face a litany of PA state charges after being accused of an October 18-19, 2024 break-in at the Richard H. Stahl & Sons, Inc. fur farm in which 683 mink were released from their pens and breeding records were destroyed. Monday’s hearing saw prosecutors drop the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) charge leveled against both activists from Massachusetts.

Abrego Garcia Wins Bail, Can’t Be Detained Again Without Notice

July 25, 2025 Chris Walker, Truthout. , , , ,
A judge has ordered the release of Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia from federal custody after he was unlawfully deported by the Trump administration to an infamous megaprison in his native El Salvador. After the White House baselessly alleged for months that Abrego Garcia was a dangerous MS-13 gang member — with President Donald Trump going so far as to present a clearly doctored photograph of Abrego Garcia’s hand tattooed with those letters and numbers — a number of legal challenges eventually forced the administration to return him to the United States.

Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Giant Eni Can Move Forward

July 25, 2025 Stella Levantesi, DeSmog. , , , , ,
This week, Italy’s highest court ruled that a climate lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon against Eni can move forward. In the decision, released on Monday, the court rejected Italian oil and gas company Eni’s motions to dismiss the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, and ordered that the case be heard on its merits by the Court of Rome. “This decision means that the lawsuit is legitimate, that the plaintiffs have the right to bring it, and that the Italian judge has a duty to rule on it,” Alessandro Gariglio, lawyer for Greenpeace Italy, said in an interview with DeSmog.

New Youth-Led Lawsuit Is Challenging Trump’s Fossil Fuel Orders

July 24, 2025 Davin Faris, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
This summer, kids are taking the climate crisis to the courts. The 22 plaintiffs of Lighthiser v. Trump, a lawsuit filed in May, range from 7 to 25 years old. They are challenging three of President Donald Trump’s most controversial executive orders to “unleash” fossil fuels and revoke renewable energy initiatives. The orders roll back critical investments in sustainable technologies and climate science, declare a “National Energy Emergency” to increase fossil fuel use, and prop up the coal, oil and gas industries through deregulation.

Cop City Rico Trials Begin In Atlanta, First Case Declared A Mistrial

July 20, 2025 Aja Arnold and Sam Barnes, Unicorn Riot. , , , , ,
Atlanta, GA — The first trial in the ‘Cop City’ RICO case began the morning of July 7 in Fulton County Superior Court, with defendant Ayla King returning to court for the first time since January 2024. However, proceedings quickly came to a halt following Judge Kevin Farmer’s declaration of a mistrial and the defense’s decision to appeal the mistrial. King’s case is being heard separately from the other 60 defendants after filing for a speedy trial on Oct. 30, 2023. King is one of 61 people indicted by Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr in August 2023 on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) charges for their protest against “Cop City.”

20 States Sue Trump Administration For Slashing FEMA Disaster Program

July 19, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. , , ,
A group of 20 states sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over the shutting down of a multibillion-dollar grant program with the purpose of strengthening natural disaster preparation and mitigation. The lawsuit filed in a Boston federal court contends that the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) unlawfully eliminated its Building Resilient Infrastructures and Communities (BRIC) program, overriding Congress. The states said in the complaint that the shutdown’s impacts have been “devastating,” reported The Hill.

Minnesota Supreme Court Rules On Unicorn Riot DAPL Subpoena

July 18, 2025 Dan Feidt, Unicorn Riot. , , , ,
St Paul, MN — Unicorn Riot’s long legal battle in Minnesota to protect newsgathering materials from attorneys working for Energy Transfer reached yet another phase: The Minnesota Supreme Court released its ruling Wednesday about the subpoena in Hennepin County that has attempted to probe our organization. The court rejected Energy Transfer’s attempt to compel the release of newsgathering materials and reporter communications; it also ruled that a judge could order a complex document called a privilege log to be created.

Inside Your Union, You Have Due Process Rights

July 18, 2025 Cathy Highet, Labor Notes. , , ,
Suppose you run for local union office on a reform slate, and nearly win… but then the incumbent leaders trump up charges against you. You’re sure your only crime is challenging them, but they brand your organizing “dual unionism” or “conduct unbecoming a member.” They hold a trial, find you guilty, and suspend your membership. Do you have any recourse? Most unions have an internal discipline process—a way to expel, suspend, or fine members for breaking the union’s rules. Most members have a legal right to due process, and protections against improper discipline, under a 1959 federal law called the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.

A ‘Draconian’ United Kingdom Government

July 15, 2025 Craig Murray, Consortium News. , , ,
When we restarted at 2 p.m., Raza Husain noted that the secretary of state had submitted no argument as to why the proscription had to enter into force immediately. He continued that the statutory instrument proscribing Palestine Action was not to be viewed as having the same authority as primary legislation, and had undergone a very truncated parliamentary procedure. Amendment had not been possible. It was more properly characterised as an executive instrument subject to parliamentary veto. Judge Chamberlain agreed, and noted it had also included the Maniac Murder Cult and it had not been possible for Parliament to separate the groups.

UK Attempt To Name Non-Violent Group As ‘Terrorist’ Is Challenged In Court

July 14, 2025 Craig Murray, Consortium News. , , , ,
I headed to the Royal Courts of Justice in London on July 4 for the hearing brought by Huda Ammori, a co-founder of Palestine Action, on an application for relief from the government’s proscription order against the group as a terrorist organisation. Huda had applied for judicial review of the legality of this order. There is to be a hearing on whether a judicial review will be granted in the week beginning July 21. What the July 4 hearing was about, was whether the proscription should be suspended until that hearing on whether permission will be given for judicial review. This is called interim relief.
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