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The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday upheld Montgomery’s red light camera ordinance, ruling that it met an exception in the state’s governing documents on local laws. In a law that touched on the Alabama Constitution’s restrictions on local government, the court ruled 6-to-1 in favor of the city over Richard Stephen Glass, who argued the city law unconstitutionality duplicated state law on t...

Breach Notification , Critical Infrastructure Security , Electronic Healthcare Records Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La. and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. Bipartisan legislation introduced by two U.S. senators aims to kick-start the process of modernizing "outdated" health privacy laws by creating a commission to examine regulatory gaps, including how to address health data falling outside of HIPAA's umbrell...

8min Ashley Moody David Ramba League of Women Voters of Florida Mark Walker NAACP SB 90 u s postal service 'We’re supposed to, from a public standpoint, work together. And that’s what we try to do.' For all the opposition to Florida’s new voting restrictions, the legislation would have been much worse but for negotiations undertaken by Florida’s 67 supervisors of elections, their lobbyist t...

On January 12, 2022, Luxembourg’s Minister of Justice submitted to the country’s legislature Bill 7945, which transposes Directive (EU) 2019/1937, otherwise known as the Whistleblower Protection Directive (“Directive”). The official deadline for EU member states to transpose the Directive into national law was December 17, 2021, however, nearly every state, including Luxembourg, failed to mee...

The Baylor Law School will host its annual event, the People’s Law School, in an all-virtual setting on Saturday for the 17th consecutive year. Photo courtesy of Baylor Law School By Rachel Royster | News Editor The Baylor Law School will host its annual event, the People’s Law School, in an all-virtual setting on Saturday for the 17th consecutive year. The event is designed to educate consum...

Salt Lake City, Utah. Credit: Dansker Digital/stock.adobe.com Big Law firms in the last few years have launched a flurry of new offices in smaller cities, from Nashville, Tennessee, to Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City—areas where billing rates are far below those in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. But analysts say the value proposition for law firms, even for some of the most pr...

The prostate cancer drug Xtandi, discovered with taxpayer money from the National Institutes for Health and the US Army, is sold in the US by Japanese company Astellas Pharma at five times the price it is sold in Japan. The cancer treatment retails at $130 per 40mg capsule — which mean that unless the roughly 250,000 US men who suffer from prostate cancer have good health insurance, they will...

This is a modal window. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. A city law that protects fast-food employees from being fired for no reason was upheld Friday by a federal judge. Manhattan Federal Court Denise Cote judge tossed the lawsuit brought by the New York State Restaurant Association and the Restaurant Law Cente...

Taft Stettinius & Hollister is a longtime legal advisor to the Cincinnati Bengals, who take the field in Sunday's Super Bowl. Cincinnati Bengals’ Super Bowl charter included Taft lawyers Team set for first championship game in 33 years W. Stuart Dornette, co-chair of the litigation practice at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, flew to Los Angeles from Cincinnati on Thursday to take in Su...

Suffolk University Law School’s Sargent Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. Photo: Swampyank via Wikimedia Commons Suffolk University Law School has launched a free, two-week program aimed at exposing diverse young students to the law school experience in the hopes of getting them interested in pursuing careers in the legal profession. “We don’t want to suggest that we’re the only ones doing pipel...