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ATLANTA, Feb. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia State University College of Law and Alterity ADR are proud to announce the formation of a joint venture arrangement set forth in their Memorandum of Understanding dated February 3, 2022. The purpose of the MOU is to further the education, study, practice and improvement of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Alterity CEO, Marcie Dickson, stated...

Joint venture to enhance learning and training, pipeline development, and broader access to ADR services. ATLANTA, Feb. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia State University College of Law and Alterity ADR are proud to announce the formation of a joint venture arrangement set forth in their Memorandum of Understanding dated February 3, 2022. The purpose of the MOU is to further the education, stu...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Local animal activists are optimistic about the Kansas Legislature potentially passing a bill that would raise the animal abuse charge to a felony if someone leaves or dumps an animal without leaving provisions. House Bill 2364 is known by many as “Bowie’s law” due to it being created after a 2020 Wichita case where a dog was left in a kennel, inside a dumpster, with no...

President Yoweri Museveni's government is reviewing a law to impose fines and a jail term on people who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine [File: Mike Hutchings/Reuters] Uganda plans to impose fines on people who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and those who fail to pay could be sent to prison under an amendment of a public health law currently being reviewed in Parliament. Health Minister ...

For #BlackHistoryMonth 2022, the SPLC is highlighting those who are fighting hate, correcting the narrative, and making waves. We celebrate the liberation, the creativity, the resilience and intersecting identities of Black people. Week-by-week throughout February, we salute these modern-day history makers. Stacey Abrams | The Rev. William Barber | Ruby Bridges | LaTosha Brown | Tarana Burke ...

By J. Timothy Gross If it weren’t so serious, it would be funny. That’s how I feel about the PA GOP’s efforts at discrediting a law they themselves wrote, voted for, and passed in 2019. I refer, of course, to Act 77, the “no excuse needed” mail ballot law. After its passage, the GOP controlled House and Senate spent $90 million taxpayer dollars to implement that law. Now, many want to repeal ...

GENETIC VARIATION Michael D. Purugganan In 1922, the Russian geneticist and plant biologist Nikolai Vavilov published a seminal paper highlighting his interests in understanding species diversity and his practical aim of helping agricultural progress. This publication contained two key ideas — the importance of studying intraspecific phenotypic variation and a new law of genetics — that wou...

A Mississippi mother has been working for years to push a law that protects those with disabilities from being discriminated against. House Bill 20, or Cole's Law, prohibits health care providers from denying those with disabilities access to organ transplants. Other states have passed similar laws, and Cara Sims believes Mississippi should also be included. Sims said she was inspired to crea...

Alameda County Judge Brad Seligman upheld a challenge to UC’s plans for a new academic building and faculty housing, declaring that the project’s CEQA studies were inadequate and did not fully account for impacts on noise, housing and displacement. Were I to write another book about California politics — which is very unlikely — it would be entitled “Unintended Consequences,” detailing how po...

Only a few weeks after opening its first Arizona law office, fast-growing Minnesota firm Dorsey & Whitney LLC has already brought in more attorneys to grow its Valley presence. In mid-January, attorneys Scott Jenkins, Isaac Gabriel and Andrea Parker left Quarles & Brady to open the new local office for Dorsey & Whitney. The three attorneys joined their new firm as partners. Jenkin...