In a Madera County, California courtroom on this date in 2007, Donna Jean Hubbard, 46, was sentenced to 400 hours of community service and three years probation on weapons possession charges in a plea bargain agreement that allowed her to avoid being tried for a hate crime. The former Duncan Polytechnic High School teacher had previously reached a plea deal, which she had said was done to avoid losing her teaching credential, to have hate crime and gang enhancement charges dropped. She was alleged to have assaulted a Jewish woman and to have yelled racial slurs during the alleged attack. Hubbard was found to have illegal weapons and Ku Klux Klan items in her home, which led to the weapons charges for which she was found guilty.

On this date in 2007 in Columbia, South Carolina state representative J. Seth Whipper, a Democrat representing District 113 in Charleston County and an African-American attorney, introduced a hate crimes bill (H3738), and by April 10, 2007, it was co-sponsored by twelve other state representatives, ten of them African-American and all of them Democrats. These co-sponsors were representatives: Karl B. Allen, Carl L. Anderson, Curtis Brantley, Floyd Breeland, Bill Clyburn, Lonnie Hosey, Joseph H. Jefferson, Douglas Jennings, Jr., David J. Mack III, J. Todd Rutherford, Leon Stavrinakis, and Robert Q. Williams. The bill, if passed into law, would provide penalties for those convicted of crimes based on religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or sexual orientation, and the wording of the bill would also include transgendered individuals in that sexual orientation is defined in Whipper's bill as "a person's actual or perceived heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, or gender identity or expression."