Maryland’s top court will weigh whether a Black man’s speedy departure upon seeing Baltimore police in a high-crime area gives officers reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to stop him.
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In Maryland, police departments must report whom they stop and search. But the statistics police departments around the state are filing are incomplete and unreliable.
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In honor of the start of the justices' October 2015 term, here's a short quiz to test your knowledge of high-court history.
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Read More »Barneys has agreed to pay $525,000 to resolve allegations that minorities were singled out as suspected shoplifters at its flagship store, part of a spate of racial profiling complaints against major retailers last year.
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Read More »NEW YORK — A black actor on the HBO drama series “Treme” said in a lawsuit on Friday that he was stopped because of his race while buying sunglasses at Macy’s — the third discrimination allegation made this week by ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON — A federal judge President Barack Obama wants to promote to the appellate bench successfully sued the Maryland State Police for racial profiling after his family was pulled over and searched for drugs while driving back from a funeral. ...
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Read More »The Maryland State Police has to release records of racial profiling complaints filed within the department, the state’s highest court held Thursday, though individual information must be erased from the documents.
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Read More »WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., on Wednesday revived a bill to end racial profiling — an idea that won bipartisan support in 2001, but became a casualty of the terrorist attacks that year. Cardin said racial profiling has increased ...
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Read More »SALT LAKE CITY — Two national organizations are suing Utah to halt a new immigration law they claim encourages racial profiling. The National Immigration Law Center says an enforcement measure signed by Gov. Gary Herbert in March is just as ...
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Read More »Court reporters in the Baltimore County Circuit Court are seeing their days numbered, and two siblings will not be able to sue the St. Joseph’s Society for allegedly covering up that a priest was their father. Those stories and more ...
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