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Kersha Deibel, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio, says the new law complicates what abortion providers have to do to be able to provide care for patients. A lawsuit filed in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas late Friday seeks to stop a new state abortion law from going into effect. And without the lawsuit, advocates for legal abortion fear some Ohio women won...

Moscow skyline. Avov/Wikimedia U.S. law firms have significantly reined in their ambitions in Russia over the last decade, but the fallout from the current Russian invasion of Ukraine is likely to test the resolve of those remaining players like nothing before. A number of U.S. firms have already exited Moscow since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, leaving a core group with significant cli...

This Wednesday, June 29, 2016, photo shows guns on display at a gun store. Virginia has a red-flag law designed to combat gun violence. A Republican effort to overturn the law has failed. Republicans don't like Virginia's new red flag law, which uses court-imposed risk orders to remove guns from people who might be a danger to themselves or others. Republican Delegate Marie March of Floyd C...

In Cost Mesa, California, piglets and their mother in January. Credit: Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/Via Getty Images. Some have called it “Bacongate.” Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa calls it the “war on breakfast.” California’s Prevention of Cruelty to Farm Animals Act, also known as Proposition 12, sets the strictest minimum confinement standards in the nation to ensure t...

Indigenous nations have been an afterthought in U.S. water policy for over a century. That was all part of the plan. The turbulent, choppy watersof the Colorado River pull from tributaries as far north as Wyoming before they race south for hundreds of miles, crashing together as they churn through the Grand Canyon, then smoothing out as they roll south. In southwestern Arizona, where the Son...

HOUGHTON — Local organization Voting Rights Advocates held a virtual event to discuss voting access in Michigan. Sponsored by the Justice Ministry of the Keweenaw Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, the event featured four speakers who dissected a legislative proposal from a downstate group known as Secure MI Vote. Secure MI Vote says that its proposal would improve election security, but pres...

Highlights The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes funding for vital infrastructure, as well as other important regional and local government projects State, local and tribal governments will be able to apply for millions of dollars in much-needed funding Application processes are being developed by various government agencies that will manage and implement the funding With the recent pass...

Andrew and Sarah Mika Credit: Sarah Mika. All Rights Reserved. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law Board of Advisors member Sarah FitzGerald Mika, Washington D.C.-area attorney, and her husband, Andrew J. Mika, have endowed a $25,000 program fund to benefit the law school’s Family Law Center. The newly created Mika Family Law Clinic Support Fund was established to enhance the Penn State Fam...

Today Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the state’s most historic tax reform bill into law at LBS, an Employee Stock Ownership Plan business, where she first touted the plan just a month ago. The bipartisan bill, which passed in both the House and Senate last week, lowers the individual income tax rate for all Iowans to a flat and fair 3.9% rate by 2026, eliminates income tax on all retirement income ...