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Booksellers and librarians file brief in new NSA spy case

September 15, 2015 By Chris Finan

Groups urge a federal court to limit the NSA's surveillance of international electronic communications, including those relating to the purchase and use of books.

Landmark settlement ends long-term solitary confinement in Calif. prisons

September 3, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

Some 2,858 inmates were reportedly held in solitary; some for 10, 20 or even 30 years, spending all but an hour or so of their day isolated in tiny cement-lined cells.

Today in civil rights history: James Meredith graduates from Ole Miss

August 18, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Twice denied admission, he filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, alleging that the university had rejected him only because of his race.

Coal industry win is temporary, fate of plants still in air

June 30, 2015 By Matthew Brown

A divided Supreme Court ruled against the Obama administration's attempt to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.

Union leaders applaud Supreme Court health care law ruling

June 29, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

By and large, leaders applauded the ruling keeping the ACA's federal individual payments for health care insurance subsidies for users of health care exchanges, state or federal.