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February 14, 2022

Proposed law would make it easier for veterans to get help for hearing loss and tinnitus - Healthy Hearing

Veterans Hearing Benefits Act of 2022 would reduce red tape for hearing loss and tinnitus treatment Former U.S. service members have disproportionately high rates of hearing loss and tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Yet, when they try to get audiology care through their Veterans Administration benefits, they often face unnecessary red tape, according to U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.). Curre...
February 14, 2022

Providers: $25 million fund to help us survive after no fault law change is a failure - Michigan Radio

Shara Curry, RN, helps her patient, Kelley Miller, paralyzed from the neck down, take a drink. Miller is now in the hospital because Curry's company wasn't being paid for her care under the state's no fault law changes. Companies that care for catastrophically injured car crash survivors quickly began going out of business after July 1st last summer. That's when changes to the state's auto ...
February 14, 2022

3News Investigates: AirTag use by stalkers unchecked by Ohio laws - WKYC.com

AKRON, Ohio — The alarm startled Kar'mell Triplett. "I was so scared," the 21-year-old Akron woman remembered. "I can't even describe it. I was speechless" Looking down at her iPhone, she learned that an AirTag — the Apple company's tiny tracking device — was somehow monitoring her every move as she drove her Chevrolet Malibu in Akron last October. But who, and where. and most importantly, wh...
February 14, 2022

The Global Legal Industry Is Less Monolithic Than You Might Think - Law.com

Credit: Applepy/Shutterstock.com So here we are, two years after most of the world started taking seriously the novel coronavirus, as it was called back then. It would be another month before major cities like New York acknowledged this wasn’t going away and all but shut down. Now, two cities that were hit hard by the virus—New York and London—are lifting mask mandates and other restrictions ...
February 14, 2022

Opinion: Connecticut needs more affordable housing. 8-30g is a law that works - The Connecticut Mirror

A few of the 18 new affordable housing units built by Greenwich at Armstrong Court. Imagine that you wanted, several years ago, to purchase a home in a suburban community. At that time, you chose a town where the town’s police officers were a part of the community, where volunteer firefighters and quick responders could leave their jobs to answer an alarm, where teachers knew the families of ...
February 13, 2022

The Interception of Ryanair Flight FR4978 – An Undoing of International Aviation Law? - JURIST

Ritwik Sharma, student at the Institute of Law, Nirma University, discusses the implications on international aviation law after the Belarusian interception of an aircraft in 2021... Recently, a federal US court issued warrants for arrest of several Belarusian officials for “aircraft piracy.” These indictments come as the result of year-long investigations into alleged improprieties and decei...
February 13, 2022

Local law firm sends you back to the future with Super Bowl commercial - NBC 15 WPMI

Local law firm sends you back to the future with Super Bowl commercial (WPMI) MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WPMI) — You may have seen it during football's biggest game tonight a DeLorean traveling through time, right in front of Springdale Mall! It was one of the Super Bowl's many creative commercials almost as popular as the game itself. But with so many high-value ads, it can be hard to stand out fr...
February 13, 2022

Taking a look at how law enforcement uses body cameras - KELOLAND.com

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Body cams are used by law enforcement agencies all across the country, including at the Sioux Falls Police Department. KELOLAND Investigates got a court order from a judge to obtain some body cam video of an arrest made last year in Sioux Falls. We want to warn you some of the video you are about to see is disturbing. Sioux Falls Police are attempting to locate Crei...
February 13, 2022

Embattled Sen. English could keep pension benefit despite new public corruption law - Hawaii News Now

Hawaii State Capitol (HNN) HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Back in April 2021, former state Senator J. Kalani English voted with his fellow Senators on a bill that would force government employees to lose their pension benefits if they were convicted of a felony. It was a reform measure introduced in wake of the Kealoha scandal but the bill English voted on was a watered down Senate version -- all...
February 13, 2022

OFAC Removes Burundi Sanctions Regulations - International Law - United States - Mondaq News Alerts

Effective February 11, 2022, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will remove the from the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) the Burundi Sanctions Regulations at 31 C.F.R. Chapter 31, Part 554. This removal results from an earlier action by President Joseph Biden in issuing Executive Order 14054 which terminated the national emergency on which the regu...