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February 11, 2022

Law enforcement recruitment, retention bills considered – Unicameral Update - Unicameral Update

Two measures heard in the Judiciary Committee Feb. 10 aim to recruit and retain law enforcement officers in Nebraska. Sen. Brett Lindstrom LB1271, introduced by Omaha Sen. Brett Lindstrom, states legislative intent to appropriate $1 million annually to the Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in an effort to recruit law enforcement officers from outside the state to rel...
February 11, 2022

Should officers shoot to incapacitate? Central Florida, Georgia law enforcement leaders discuss - WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando

Try a whole new perspective with this foldable drone Chief Louis Dekmar, with the LaGrange Police Department, is an advocate of this new training Multiple law enforcement agencies are discussing what training officers should go through to reduce fatal shootings. Just this week, a Daytona Beach police officer shot and killed a man who the department was tracking because he had multiple felony...
February 11, 2022

Proposed state law would allow Iowans to secure guns in their vehicles in their workplace parking lot - KCRG

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) -The Employee Privacy Act would let people keep their guns in stored in their vehicle in the parking lot of their place of employment. even if that employer bans guns on its private property. Iowa Senate File 22-50 made it out of the Labor and Business Relations Committee this week. Members with the Iowa Firearms Coalition have been pushing the proposal. “24 states a...
February 11, 2022

Georgetown Law Really Has A Knack For Casual Racism - Above the Law

Yesterday, for reasons known only by God and the IRS, Georgetown University Law Center professor Franz Werro thought it was a good idea to refer to one of his Asian International Contracts and Sales Law students as “Mr. Chinaman.” The fuck? People aren’t perfect — it is known. Events like this can make you wonder does a failure become a feature? Last year it was Prof. Sandra Sellers, incomi...
February 11, 2022

COVID-19 Workers' Comp Bill Becomes Law - KNSI Radio

Dan Wolgamott (KNSI) – A bill that protects frontline workers exposed to COVID has become the first bill signed into law in the 2022 Minnesota Legislative session. The bill, authored by St. Cloud Representative Dan Wolgamott, extends a presumption that in the event a public safety or healthcare worker contracts COVID-19, they did so in the line of duty and are covered by workers’ compensation...
February 11, 2022

More Big Law Partners Are Heading to Virtual Law Firms | The American Lawyer - The American Lawyer

What You Need to Know Potomac is landing more partners from elsewhere, after earlier having greater success with counsel-level hires. It added five IP partners, two government contracts partners, and a white-collar partner. The firm is looking to California, Chicago and the Carolinas for further growth in 2022.
February 11, 2022

Case Western's law school co-dean receives incredibly rare opportunity to argue case before the world's criminal court - News 5 Cleveland

--> Sorry, we're having issues playing this video. In the meantime, try watching one of the videos below. CLEVELAND — He has testified on Capitol Hill. He has been cited and interviewed in publications far and wide. But now, the co-dean of Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law will have the distinct opportunity rarely afforded to American attorneys: argue a case before the wor...
February 11, 2022

Law & Order column: Man faces up to decade in prison for selling 'ghost gun' in Deerfield - Chicago Tribune

A Glenview man could face up to 10 years in prison after being convicted in federal court of selling a “ghost gun” to a convicted felon. Joseph Ghandour was found guilty by a federal jury in Chicago earlier this month for the illegal sale of the AR-15-style assault rifle in 2017. The weapon was considered a “ghost gun,” authorities said, because it was built from parts collected from various ...
February 11, 2022

Luxembourg is modernising its securitisation law (UPDATED) | Hogan Lovells - JDSupra - JD Supra

The Luxembourg law on securitisation dated 22 March 2004 (the “Securitisation Law”) has been tremendously successful in providing a flexible and secure framework for Luxembourg securitisation vehicles (“SVs”), attracting a wide range of structures and satisfying various investors’ needs. With the entry into force of the EU securitisation regulation (EU) 2017/2402 of the European Parliament an...
February 11, 2022

Intellectual Property Law: Year in Review 2021 | Harris Beach PLLC - JDSupra - JD Supra

Specification and Prosecution History Narrow the Plain Meaning of “0.001%.” The claim at issue included a concentration of 0.001% of PVP. The term’s plain meaning is 0.001% within one significant figure (i.e., 0.0005% to 0.10014%). The Federal Circuit held that the term had a narrower meaning in light of the specification and prosecution history—“precisely 0.001% w/w PVP with only minor varia...