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February 25, 2022

Letter: Little Falls continues to violate ADA law - ECM Publishers

Letter: Little Falls continues to violate ADA law  ECM Publishers
February 25, 2022

The Strict Drunk Driving Law That Could Become a Model for Other States - Route Fifty

A young woman holding a beer while driving her car. Utah’s one-of-a-kind drunk driving law helped lower alcohol-related traffic deaths despite initial doubts, a new federal study shows, and now federal officials are touting it as a potential model for other states. Jennifer Homendy, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the study shows that NTSB’s years-long campaign to ...
February 25, 2022

Panama Enacts a Rights of Nature Law, Guaranteeing the Natural World's 'Right to Exist, Persist and Regenerate' - InsideClimate News

Tourists snorkel at a coral reef in Portobelo, Colon province, Panama in 2021. Reefs there have been damaged by climate change and pollution. Credit: Luis ACOSTA / AFP via Getty Images. Panama is the latest country to recognize the legal rights of nature, giving environmentalists a new tool to fight ecological harm. After just over a year of debate in Panama’s National Assembly, President ​​L...
February 25, 2022

UNLV law professor has place in Nevada’s Black history - Las Vegas Review-Journal

UNLV professor Rachel Anderson at the UNLV Law Library on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto UNLV professor Rachel Anderson at the UNLV Law Library on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, in Las Vegas. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto UNLV professor Rachel Anderson at the UNLV Law Library on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, in Las V...
February 25, 2022

Historic Law Aims to Improve Police Accountability and Transparency - Public Policy Institute of California

Deepak Premkumar Shannon McConville This year, California joined 47 other states in creating a decertification process for law enforcement officers who commit serious misconduct—barring them from serving in any of the state’s law enforcement agencies. Following the murder of George Floyd, states across the country implemented a raft of reforms to increase officer accountability. One of the...
February 25, 2022

EXPLAINER: What does Texas' data on abortions say about law? - ABC News

Texas has released data showing a marked drop in abortions at clinics in the state in the first month under the nation’s strictest abortion law, but that only tells part of the story DALLAS -- Texas has released data showing a marked drop in abortions at clinics in the state in the first month under the nation's strictest abortion law, but that only tells part of the story. A study released ...
February 25, 2022

EXPLAINER: What does Texas’ data on abortions say about law? - The Seattle Times

DALLAS (AP) — Texas has released data showing a marked drop in abortions at clinics in the state in the first month under the nation’s strictest abortion law, but that only tells part of the story. A study released Friday showing a jump in requests from Texans for abortion pills by mail is helping complete the picture, as will learning more about the number of women who went to clinics outsid...
February 25, 2022

EXPLAINER: What Does Texas' Data on Abortions Say About Law? - U.S. News & World Report

DALLAS (AP) — Texas has released data showing a marked drop in abortions at clinics in the state in the first month under the nation's strictest abortion law, but that only tells part of the story. A study released Friday showing a jump in requests from Texans for abortion pills by mail is helping complete the picture, as will learning more about the number of women who went to clinics outsid...
February 25, 2022

Manassas mom among challengers to Youngkin's mask-optional law - WTOP

This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. A Manassas mother has joined 11 other Virginia parents in a lawsuit to stop the implementation of a new state law making masks optional in Virginia public schools and roll back new mask-optional policies in area public schools. Represented...
February 25, 2022

Court Overturns Law Suspension of Alabama Judge Who Resigned - U.S. News & World Report

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A disciplinary board acted too harshly in suspending the law license of a former judge who pleaded guilty to ethics charges and resigned after investigators accused him of having an improper affair with a lawyer, a divided Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday. The court, by a 5-4 majority, sided with former Coffee County District Court Judge Christopher Kaminski, who cha...