WASHINGTON, June 29 (TNStalk) -- The African American Mayors Association issued the following statement on June 27, 2023: * * * The African American Mayors Association (AAMA) welcomes the decision by the Supreme Court to lift the hold in the Louisiana redistricting case. On the heels of the 5-4 Allen v. Milligan ruling, the Court recognizes the inherent violations of the Voting Rights Act by the Republican-led legislature of Louisiana in their drawing of congressional maps which stripped Black  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 (TNSgov) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: The U.S. Supreme Court today lifted a temporary halt on a federal lawsuit challenging Louisiana's discriminatory congressional maps. The action sends the case, Robinson v. Ardoin, down to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for further consideration. The lawsuit argues that the maps dilute the voting power of Black Louisianians in violation of Section 2 of the Voti  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 29 (TNStalk) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana issued the following statement on June 28, 2023: * * * The ACLU of Louisiana released the following statement applauding Governor John Bel Edwards' veto of House Bill 85, an unconstitutional bill that would have made it a crime to be within 25 feet of law enforcement engaged in official duties when ordered by officers to stay away. "House Bill 85 was a significant government overstep that would have   more

WASHINGTON, June 27 (TNSgov) -- The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: The U.S. Supreme Court today lifted a temporary halt on a federal lawsuit challenging Louisiana's discriminatory congressional maps. The action sends the case, Robinson v. Ardoin, down to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for further consi  more

BETHESDA, Maryland, June 28 (TNSpp) -- The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists issued the following news release: Paul Joseph LeSage, past president of the Maryland and California societies of health-system pharmacists, died May 22, 2023, at age 91 years. LeSage was a U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) pharmacist for 23 years, serving in Georgia, Washington, Maryland, and California. After retiring from PHS as a captain, he remained in California, working as a pharmacist at Kaiser Perm  more

SANTA BARBARA, California, June 28 (TNSres) -- Direct Relief issued the following news: From the wildfires that have burned through California subdivisions to the hurricanes that have drowned cities and towns in Florida, Louisiana and Texas, natural disasters are forcing millions of Americans to evacuate their homes each year. In 2022 alone, 3.4 million Americans had to flee their homes because of hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters, according to the Census Bureau. Too often, they f  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 (TNSgov) -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: Today, the Biden administration decided to close several civil rights complaints and an investigation into whether the State of Louisiana failed to protect a community beset by decades of toxic air pollution. For much of the last decade, residents of St. John the Baptist Parish have had the highest risk of developing cancer from toxic air pollution of any community in the country. In January 2022,   more

WASHINGTON, June 29 (TNSgov) -- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following news release: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) closed its investigations into two Louisiana state agencies regarding pollution from a petrochemical plant and potential violations of the Civil Rights Act. The investigations were initiated in response to a complaint filed by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Earthjustice, on behalf of Concerned Citizens of St. John a  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 29 -- The Association of the U.S. Army issued the following news on June 28, 2023: Retired Lt. Gen. Thomas Rhame, a longtime vice president of Finance and Administration at the Association of the U.S. Army, died June 27. He was 82. Rhame, who retired from the Army in 1997, served as AUSA's vice president from 1998 until 2014. Born in Winnfield, Louisiana, Rhame grew up in an Air Force family, but his father, like many veterans of the time, rarely spoke about his expl  more

FORT SCOTT, Kansas, June 27 (TNSres) -- The Milken Family Foundation issued the following news release: The Lowell Milken Center (LMC) for Unsung Heroes, an international educational nonprofit in Fort Scott, Kansas, has awarded its prestigious Fellowship to 12 educators from Louisiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Ukraine. The Fellowship is divided into two cohorts. Six educators collaborated with LMC staff last week,   more

WASHINGTON, June 30 (TNSper) -- The National Association of Health Underwriters issued the following news release: The National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP) is pleased to announce the newly elected members of its 2023-24 Board of Trustees, who were named at the association's 93rd Annual Convention this week in New Orleans, Louisiana. "On behalf of the entire NABIP community, I congratulate all of our Board members on their new positions," said Janet Trautwein, CE  more

CHALMETTE, Louisiana, June 28 (TNSgov) -- The Southern Poverty Law Center issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: St. Bernard Parish Public Schools routinely violate the rights of students with disabilities by placing them in a punitive alternative school setting without the appropriate accommodations and education services to meet their needs, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Law Clinic for the Loyola University New Orleans Colleg  more