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It’s been a terrible twelve months for voting rights in the United States. By the end of 2021, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, at least nineteen states had passed a combined thirty-four laws that restrict access to voting, and legislators in at least twenty-seven states are currently working on more than two hundred and fifty bills that would do the same. In the Senate, Republica...

Atlantic County has sued the state to try to stop a new casino PILOT law from taking effect. ATLANTIC CITY — The state violated the terms of a 2018 consent order between itself and Atlantic County when it enacted a new casino payments-in-lieu-of-taxes law, according to a decision Friday by Superior Court Judge Joseph Marczyk. In his order, Marczyk did not enjoin the state from implementing t...

In May 2021, we addressed the planned changes1 to the Personal Data Law2. At the end of 2021, the president of the Republic of Kazakhstan signed a law on amendments and additions to some legislative acts, including to legislation on personal data protection3. We have prepared a series of brief overviews of the changes and amendments on personal data (PD) issues that will become effective as o...

Iowa Law’s DEI committee piloted a new program last week called Across the Aisle. The program seeks to bridge divides and bring people with different perspectives into conversation with each other. The first topic was immigration. Prior to the event participants were asked to answer questions to determine where they stood on specific issues related to immigration in the United States includin...

By Hurst Hannum Both international law and the United Nations Charter say that countries should not invade each other. But who has the ability to enforce those rules? U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres put them to the test on Feb. 24, 2022, when he called on Russia to stop its fast-moving ground invasion of Ukraine. “The use of force by one country against another is the repudiation of t...

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WISC-TV/Channel3000 MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Supreme Court will decide whether a constitutional amendment expanding crime victims’ rights was properly enacted. Voters approved the so-called Marsy’s Law amendment in a statewide referendum in April 2020. Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington ruled in 2020 that the ballot question wasn’t phrased properly and didn’t adequately warn vote...

News Families can help loved ones resistant to care through outpatient approach A homeless man sleeps on a bench outside of Palo Alto City Hall on Feb. 4, 2014. Embarcadero Media file photo by Veronica Weber. Santa Clara County has kicked off a new program that allows families of severely mentally ill residents to petition the court for ordered treatment, the county announced on Wednesday. K...

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. — The victim in a deadly home invasion shooting was a Northern Kentucky University law school graduate and was a former employee at a local commonwealth attorney's law office. 32-year-old Jordan Morgan was shot and killed during a home invasion Tuesday in Madison County, Kentucky. Mother of NKY man wanted in deadly home invasion pleads for him to turn himself in Kentu...

Vanderbilt law professor to appear on Jeopardy! Professors Tournament Alicia Dixon is a 2020 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. She participated in Georgetown’s London semester program in Transnational Legal Studies. As someone whose field of interest is very international, I loved that the Center for Transnational Legal Studies was all about transnational law. The idea of studyin...