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1of5Jack O'Malley, Curt VanderWallPhotos providedShow MoreShow Less See how Manistee area lawmakers voted on recent measures. • 2021 House Bill 5090, Revise bar and restaurant social district law To revise details of a 2020 law that lets three or more bars and restaurants serve alcohol in a shared commons area within a social district, by also allowing one of them to close off a section for ...

Idyllic hog farms? Not quite The Desert Sun published an opinion by guest columnist Dwight Mogler on Feb. 21. Mogler describes the idyllic conditions in which his hogs are raised. He is upset about California's Proposition 12 "Bacon Law" and the effect it may have on his farm and the pork industry. The description of his farm does not address the pollution caused by his and large corporate fa...

Glenn Brown (Waldo County Jail) BELFAST, Maine (AP) — A Maine man charged with killing his sister and brother-in-law pleaded no contest to murder on Wednesday. Glenn Brown, 68, of Belmont, will be sentenced next month for the killings in October 2020 at the couple’s home in Waldo. There was no plea agreement, prosecutors said. Brown went to the Belfast Police Department to report the shooting...

It’s been more than a decade since Kyle McEntee and Patrick Lynch, co-founders of Law School Transparency (LST), were crowned as Above the Law’s 2010 Lawyers of the Year for their creation of the nonprofit organization that pushed for detailed and accurate reporting of law school graduate employment data. In all the time that’s passed since then, the American Bar Association has gotten on boa...

Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law is remaining in place, at least for the near future, despite a state judge’s order that would have made it expire in two weeks. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a one-paragraph order that overturned a Feb. 16 order by Commonwealth Court Senior Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt. It would have pulled the plug on the state’s 2-year-old voting law. The ...

PROVIDENCE – The state Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down as unconstitutional a century-old law declaring people serving life sentences to be dead in all respects, in terms of their civil rights. The high court, 4-1, declared as unconstitutional the so-called civil-death law, which barred people sentenced to life from taking legal actioin state court against the state Department of Corre...

Law enforcement officials on Tuesday called for increased efforts to prosecute carjacking offenses while acknowledging that the majority of those crimes appear to be committed by juveniles, which complicates punishing such offenders. Major cities across the country are experiencing a troubling upward trend in violent crime stoked by the COVID-19 pandemic, officials told the Senate Judiciary C...

Law enforcement officials on Tuesday called for increased efforts to prosecute carjacking offenses while acknowledging that the majority of those crimes appear to be committed by juveniles, which complicates punishing such offenders. Major cities across the country are experiencing a troubling upward trend in violent crime stoked by the COVID-19 pandemic, officials told the Senate Judiciary C...

The Michigan Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday on whether the state’s civil rights law protects LGBTQ people against discrimination, even though the Legislature has never specifically enumerated that in the statute. At issue is a 2018 Michigan Civil Rights Commission interpretation of the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. It says the state law protects LGBTQ people from discriminatio...

West Virginia University College of Law; Kelsey Jandoc and Onna Nwankwo; David Gelfand A West Virginia state representative has sponsored a bill to create a second law school in the state, tentatively to be located at Marshall University. Mathew Rohrbach says another law school in the southern part of the state would fulfill an unmet need for prospective law students with non-traditional s...