test

A flight attendant serves a snack on a Delta flight from Baltimore to Atlanta during the Covid-19 pandemic. Major airlines including Delta Air Lines Inc., American Airlines Inc., and United Airlines Inc. say a knot of conflicting state, local, and federal requirements governing pay and working conditions for their flight crews are an existential threat to their bottom lines that adds to strai...

Clif Otto It is curious to see the recent dispensary complaints about restrictive regulation and unsustainable tax burdens. What is missing from this discussion is the fact that Hawaii’s eight dispensaries — as well as our 34,000 lawfully registered medical cannabis patients, for that matter — are all technically federal criminals because the mere possession of cannabis without formal author...

As the first in-person voters of the 2022 election cycle head to the polls on Monday, not only is this year's early voting period expected to set the political tone for candidates ahead of the March 1 primary election, it will also put a renewed spotlight on Senate Bill 1, the state's recently revised election law. The law officially went into effect in December following nearly a year of deb...

What You Need to Know Law firm demand remains high, according to a new report, but personnel and overhead expenses are rising. Direct expenses increased 8.4% in a year-over-year comparison during the 4th quarter of 2021. The industry saw 11.4% growth in average associate compensation. Strong demand and productivity continue to propel the legal industry to new highs, but crushing expenses d...

Costanza Potter Exclusive The BMA has hired a law firm to investigate leaks to the press from its GP Committee, Pulse has learned. Pulse understands that specialist employment lawyers Fox & Partners have been appointed to conduct investigations. Pulse also understands that this action was taken following articles in the Daily Telegraph – which claimed that the GPC had been taken over by t...

Campaigners say the island's same-sex marriage law has unfairly separated international couples Trending Same-sex couple Joyce Chan (right) and Queenie Oyong (center) kneel during a protest by activists in Taipei on Feb. 14 to call on Taiwan's government to approve gay marriage with foreign partners. (Photo: AFP) LGBTQ activists in Taiwan today braved a Valentine's Day downpour to protest t...

The empty flagpoles at Fort Smith's Riverfront Park are seen Thursday, June 3, 2021, after the removal of the seven historic flags that have flown over the city. (NWA Democrat-Gazette file photo) With objects of recognition including flagpoles and plaques, city officials across the state are wondering how a 2021 monument protection act will affect future efforts to honor people and events. Th...

The empty flagpoles at Fort Smith's Riverfront Park are seen Thursday, June 3, 2021, after the removal of the seven historic flags that have flown over the city. (NWA Democrat-Gazette file photo) With objects of recognition including flagpoles and plaques, city officials across the state are wondering how a 2021 monument protection act will affect future efforts to honor people and events. Th...

McDermott Will & Emery, San Francisco (Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM) Latham & Watkins’ Singapore partner and former global power and energy practice co-chair, Clarinda Tjia-Dharmadi, has left the firm to join McDermott, Will & Emery as Asia chair of its transactions practice. Tjia-Dharmadi spent more than two decades at Latham and was promoted to partner in 2006. She was the former globa...

Candace McCoy, a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College in New York City, argues that data does not support claims that bail reform is responsible for a recent uptick in violent crime, including shootings and homicides. She contends a confluence of factors is likely to blame, and suggests a tweak to the reform law that might help address rising gun violence. An axiom of political g...