Year: 2015

Rochester Man Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 31, 2015.  Emanuel L. Lutchman, 25, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.  The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000[Read More…]

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Riverside Man on Charges of Conspiring with Shooter in San Bernardino Terrorist Attack to Provide Material Support to Terrorists

Defendant also Charged with Being ‘Straw Purchaser’ of Two Assault Rifles Later Used in San Bernardino Attack that Killed 14 People Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 30, 2015.  Enrique Marquez Jr., 24, of Riverside, California, a longtime friend of Sayed Rizwan Farook, the male shooter in the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack, was[Read More…]

Justice Department Reaches Landmark Settlement Agreement with State of Oregon Regarding Americans with Disabilities Act

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 30, 2015.  In a Dec. 29, 2015, order, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon approved a settlement agreement between the Justice Department, a class of private plaintiffs and the state of Oregon, which resolved the department’s and the class plaintiffs’ claims against the state under[Read More…]

ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Hospital for Denying Reproductive Health Care

Dignity Health Hospital Network Continues to Refuse Pregnancy-Related Care Because of Religious Directives WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–December 29, 2015.  The ACLU and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP have filed a lawsuit challenging Dignity Health’s use of religious directives to deny basic reproductive health care to its patients. Filed on[Read More…]

CAIR Seeks Hate Crime Probe of Nevada Mosque Desecration

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 29, 2015.  The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) , the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called for a state and federal hate crime investigation of the desecration of a Nevada mosque, the latest such incident in a recent spike in attacks on Muslim houses[Read More…]

At New Hampshire Town Hall, Hillary Clinton Highlights Plan to Make Alzheimer’s Cure Possible by 2025

NEW HAMPSHIRE—(ENEWSPF)—December 29, 2015. At a midday town hall meeting in Portsmouth, NH, Clinton continued to talk about her newly released, $2 billion-per-year plan to prevent, effectively treat and make a cure possible for Alzheimer’s by 2025.  Clinton noted that Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the[Read More…]

Federal Judge Blocks Missouri Department of Health From Revoking Planned Parenthood’s Abortion License in Columbia

Kansas City –(ENEWSPF)–December 29, 2015.  Today, U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey issued a preliminary injunction blocking Missouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services from revoking Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri’s license to perform abortions in its Columbia health center. “Judge Laughrey’s decision affirms the state of Missouri violated the[Read More…]

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