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In the first appellate decision to decide the issue since the Supreme Court decision in BP P.L.C. v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, the 10th Circuit ruled this week that climate damage claims brought by several Colorado counties should nonetheless still be heard in state court. The most important issue in the case was whether the Clean Air “completely preempted” state law claims. The ...

A coalition of grassroots harm reduction advocates and lawmakers are calling on Gov. Janet Mills and other lawmakers to stand with them as allies to confront what they describe as an “overdose apocalypse.” The coalition is calling for strengthening the state’s “Good Samaritan” law, a 2019 law signed by the governor meant to protect a person at the scene of an overdose from arrest or prosecuti...

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People gathered outside Representatives Hall Thursday while the House Judiciary heard abortion-related bills. Courtesy photo By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org CONCORD – An effort to repeal the state’s new 24-week fetal protection law came to an emotional head at a legislative hearing Thursday with personal testimony given by women on both sides of the issue of abortion and from the medical commun...

U.S. Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety Alert Health care-related employment laws became a prevalent topic in 2021—the year of the COVID-19 vaccination mandates. States and the federal government continued to adopt differing approaches on mandates affecting different categories of employers. There were also several non-COVID-19-related employment laws affecting the health care industry i...

Mike McQuade At this odd juncture of American life, when many state and local governments are moving to stifle conversation around race in classrooms and beyond, UCLA’s law school is charting the opposite course, pioneering the use of critical race theory to examine American race relations. Critical race studies came to occupy a central place at UCLA School of Law beginning in the 1990s. Si...

Militia activity in north Idaho in 2020. | Idaho Statesman (Idaho Statesman) — Legal experts have raised concerns over a new bill, pushed by the Idaho National Guard and Gov. Brad Little, that would repeal a longstanding state law prohibiting private militias and paramilitary organizations. While the anti-militia law is currently not enforced in Idaho, removing it would limit the obstructions...

What You Need to Know It's been an unusually long wait for most of the legal industry to settle on a leading associate pay scale. Some firms are delaying because they don't want to be one-upped by a leading pay scale. Other factors could be at play, including managing partner politics and client perceptions. The waiting game to match or one-up the associate pay scale continues to drag out, ...

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is the most comprehensive infrastructure law passed by Congress in decades. Unlike most legislation that focuses on a single infrastructure sector like transportation or water, the IIJA addresses all the major sectors to respond to a myriad of long-standing and emerging issues confronting the American people, our economy, and our natural world...

Former Iowa State wrestling coach Jim Gibbons spoke at an Iowa Senate subcommittee meeting on Feb. 9, 2022. (Photo by Katie Akin/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Iowa PBS public records would be subject to copying and dissemination under a proposal moving through the Iowa Senate, but an amended version of the bill adds several exceptions to what the Iowa Public Broadcasting Board would be required to s...