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Livestock Falling Ill In Fracking Regions

Are dying cattle the canaries in the coal mine? Farmers and ranchers are sounding alarms about the risks to human health of hydraulic fracturing.

Livestock Falling Ill In Fracking Regions

In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams of upstate New York. The diners are here, with their checkbooks, to support a group called Chefs for the Marcellus, which works to protect the foodshed upon which hundreds of regional farm-to-fork restaurants depend. The

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It Just Got a Lot Harder For Americans To Have Their Day In Court

By rewriting the rules for civil complaints, the Supreme Court denied access to poor and middle-class people—and handed a big gift to corporate interests.

Most Americans believe they have the right to take their grievances to court. But in 2009, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Ashcroft v. Iqbal imposed a new hurdle—one of several it has created for plaintiffs in recent years—that prevents many people from getting a hearing. The procedural rules for our federal courts, established in 1938, were

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 Think Police Can’t Use Illegally Obtained Evidence Against You? Think Again.

 Thanks to the Roberts Court, there’s no penalty for ignoring a key 4th Amendment protection.

 Think Police Can’t Use Illegally Obtained Evidence Against You? Think Again.

Hudson v. Michigan (2006) is one in a series of cases in which
 the Roberts Court has blessed police officers with extraordinary power. This power authorizes cops to engage in the kind of violent and undemocratic policing that make places like Ferguson and Baltimore look less like American cities and more like the outposts of some totalitarian

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