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The Florida Supreme Court building. The outcome of a landmark civil rights lawsuit being waged over Florida’s new law banning transgender girls from girls’ sports teams in schools may depend on the verdict in a related legal battle, a judge has ruled. In that related case, a federal appeals court is deciding whether a transgender student should have been allowed to use the boys' high school...

The Unified Police Department conducts an Administrative DUI checkpoint in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, Dec. 28, 2018. (CNN)Deaths and crashes linked to drunken driving dropped almost 20% in Utah, the only state with a lower legal limit of .05, according to a new study. The conclusions are a piece of encouraging news for highway safety, where the number of deaths rose at the highest rate ...

Currently, 18.7 percent of Pennsylvania’s population is age 65 or older, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That figure is only expected to grow in coming years, according to state officials (Image via pxHere.com) Happy Weekend all, Earlier this week, Gov. Tom Wolf, who has vetoed three bills so far in 2022, laid down the veto pen and signed HB 1082, a bill requiring the state De...

Unsplash.com photo. By Toi Hutchinson The writer is president and CEO of the Marijuana Policy Project, a former Illinois state senator and former president of the National Conference of State Legislatures. She is an original co-sponsor of Illinois’ Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Marylanders have long supported moving forward with cannabis legalization, with more than two-thirds of residents...

Dear Amy: My husband “Dave” and I have been together for almost 10 years. Dave is one of four sons. There have been a number of occasions in which I and other in-law relatives have been excluded from “family photos.” We have now been married for four years and have a child together. I am still being left out. This occurred at my own wedding, when to my horror I learned that my mother-in-law h...

Fox News Flash top headlines for February 12 00:00 00:0002:26GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay A Texas judge on Friday night halted part of a new state election law that would criminalize soliciting mail-in ballots, saying it was a violation of free speech. Federal District Judge Xavier Rodriguez of San Antonio ruled that Harris County officials had a free speech ri...

No political hack pack should have the power to decide who is accredited to practice law in U.S. courtrooms. That is the gist of the message, indeed a very wise message, from William A. Jacobson and Johanna E. Markind of the Legal Insurrection blog. The two wrote at RealClearPolitics this week against the power of the American Bar Association. Their immediate focus is the ABA “forcing wokenes...

A parent in Community Unit School District 200, rallies in favor of requiring masks in schools outside the district’s headquarters on Monday, Feb. 7. On Feb. 4, Sangamon County Circuit Judge Raylene Grischow issued a temporary restraining order barring schools from enforcing the state’s indoor mask requirement. The state is appealing the ruling. On Feb. 4, Sangamon County Circuit Judge Raylen...

Activists handing out ‘writs’ at schools part of trend drawing on non-existent law that was also factor in Keir Starmer incident Government attacks on judges and lawyers are fuelling distrust of the courts and encouraging bogus notions of ancient “common law” being pushed by conspiracy theorists, according to the Law Society. The use of bogus interpretations of common law to portray courts, f...

In states where laws now limit classroom discussions about race and discrimination, many teachers are watching what they say, and are more anxious about their jobs. Eric Parker, a history teacher in Oklahoma, said his state’s new law made him more anxious about what he told his students.Chris Creese for The New York Times In rural New Hampshire, a Spanish teacher took down a “Black Lives Matt...