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Several government board meetings including panels on wastewater and game were canceled in January due to the lack of functioning Zoom links and a failure to provide contact information on the public meeting agendas. The omissions violated a new provision in Hawaii’s Sunshine Law that took effect on Jan. 1, but those preparing the agendas may not have known that. Some of the smaller boards ha...

Toreadora lake in Cajas National Park in the highlands of Ecuador. Credit: Martha Barreno /VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Until recently, so-called “rights of nature” provisions that confer legal rights to rivers, forests and other ecosystems have been mostly symbolic. But late last year, Ecuador’s top court changed that. In a series of court decisions, the Constitutional Cou...

Lewis Submitted CONNEAUT — Law Director John Lewis took over his role at the start of the year, and has been enjoying it thus far, he said. “It’s really been great working for the city of Conneaut,” Lewis said. “It’s a great place to work, and I’m really enjoying it so far.” Lewis, who previously worked for the Ashtabula County Prosecutor’s Office for about five years, said he has big ...

Photo by Shutterstock.com Herbert Smith Freehills is advising Australia’s AGL Energy after local billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canadian investment giant Brookfield Asset Management made an unsolicited $5.8 billion bid for the company. HSF was named by AGL as its legal advisor in relation to the current takeover, but the firm declined to provide any details. This premium content is reser...

What’s the point? Madison County’s lack of a long-term jail facility has been managed so far, but that can’t last forever. Arkansas is in the midst of discussions about whether it needs new prison space and across the state, there are several counties talking about how to handed crowded conditions within their local jails. It's exactly the kind of public policy discussion worth having, one th...

Qualified students can earn bachelor's and law degrees in six years. Read time: about 1 min The Regent University School of Law and Christopher Newport have announced a new accelerated, dual-degree (“3+3”) program to help students expedite their law school education. This new enhanced track reduces the time to graduate with a bachelor’s degree and law degree from seven to six years, and provi...

Janelle Thompson is a third-year law student at Cincinnati Law, a Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice Fellow, president of the Black Law Student Association (BLSA), Secretary of the Student Bar Association, and a member of the Intellectual Property Club. Janelle was an intern at KMK Law in the summer of ‘21 and plans to join the firm following graduation. You can...

Boris Johnson has announced the end of coronavirus restrictions in England All Covid restrictions will end in England on Thursday and free mass testing will stop from 1 April. The prime minister told MPs the legal duty to isolate for those who tested positive would be dropped as he unveiled his "living with Covid" plan. From 1 April the provision of free testing would be targeted to the most ...

Jeffrey Donovan, Camryn Manheim, Anthony Anderson, Sam Waterston, Odelya Halevi and Hugh Dancy head up NBC's Law & Order revival, premiering Thursday night. (Photo: NBC) Jon Hein knows TV. In the late 1990s, he coined the phrase "Jump the Shark" when he founded the site of the same name. Since then, he's written about television everywhere from The New York Times to TV Guide. In his c...

Pakistan has toughened laws to curb so-called fake news by regulating posts on social media platforms like Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook, a move seen as an attempt to crack down on journalists and opponents of the government. President Arif Alvi approved an ordinance to amend the country’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act that allows anyone to file a complaint against a s...