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Prospect list season continues Monday as Keith Law released his annual Farm System Rankings over at The Athletic. Unsurprisingly, the Atlanta Braves take another drop falling all the way from No. 6 last season to No. 17 in 2022. Law points out that despite making a variety of moves at the trade deadline last season, the Braves didn’t trade any of their Top 10 prospects and probably just one t...

What can law schools do to better ready law students to address the access to justice gap that challenges so many Americans? Approximately 80% of low-income individuals cannot afford civil legal services, and the middle class can only afford to pay for just 40% to 60% of their legal needs. This access-to-justice (ATJ) gap has remained stubbornly consistent over the last few years and law scho...

Virginia Capitol A key Senate committee will consider a bill that would make it so that any person who intentionally kills the fetus of another is guilty of voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter if the incident was accidental. The bill, also known as Caleb’s Law, was originally tabled in 2020, and was re-introduced by Sen. Mark Obenshain R-Harrisonburg on Jan. 7. I...

Maine medical malpractice panel can ask for court opinion Law requiring confidentiality of panel proceedings ambiguous A Maine law firm will have to go to state court to pursue a lawsuit alleging it’s been unlawfully denied access to court opinions requested by the state’s medical malpractice screening panel, a federal court said. The U.S. District Court for the District of Maine won’t deci...

Keith Law has his 2022 farm system organizational rankings out this morning, and the Texas Rangers have jumped up significantly in the rankings, checking in at #11 overall. That’s a significant jump from where had them ranked last time around (at 24). Law specifically has praise for the Rangers choosing to immediately be aggressive in the free agent market this past offseason after dealing pl...

Keypoint: This week the Indiana Senate passed a bill, lawmakers in Alaska, Massachusetts, and Washington passed bills out of committee, new bills were introduced in West Virginia and Wisconsin, and there was movement on many VCDPA amendment bills. Below is our fourth weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2022. Before we get to our update, we wanted to provide th...

from the underhanded-gibberish dept In late 2020, Massachusetts lawmakers (with overwhelming public support) passed an expansion of the state's "right to repair" law. The original law was the first in the nation to be passed in 2013. The update dramatically improved it, requiring that, as of this year, all new telematics-equipped vehicles be accessible via a standardized, transparent platform...

Law enforcement in the Magic Valley is feeling a staffing pinch  KPVI News 6

Law enforcement in the Magic Valley is feeling a staffing pinch  Longview News-Journal

Law enforcement in the Magic Valley is feeling a staffing pinch  Twin Falls Times-News