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Panama City (David Shvartsman/Getty images) Panamanian Congressman Gabriel Silva – the sponsor of a bill passed on Thursday regulating the use of cryptocurrencies in the country – said the bill doesn't allow for any crypto to become legal tender, but makes possible free use of crypto as a means of payment for any transaction. "We can't just establish bitcoin because that will be unconstituti...

KENTON COUNTY, Ky. (WXIX) - A former Northern Kentucky judge found guilty of misconduct has been banned from practicing law in the commonwealth. Former Kenton County Family Court Judge Dawn Gentry agreed to a four-year suspension from the Kentucky Bar Association, according to court documents. The agreement comes nearly a year and a half after she was removed from the bench. In August of 2020...

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said certain tweaks were needed before the bill took effect. The New York City Council voted Thursday to push back implementation of the city’s new pay transparency law that had been slated to take effect in May. The new law — designed to curb longstanding gender- and race-based pay disparities — will now take effect on November 1, 2022. Most New York City emplo...

Kansas Republicans on Thursday overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a bill that supporters claim will move unemployed people off of food stamps and into jobs. The law's new work training requirements for food stamps will go into effect July 1. "This bill simply causes individuals that are able-bodied without dependents that work less than 30 hours a week to go to training in order...

Data shows law enforcement officers overwhelmingly white and male By JONATHAN CUSTODIO 04/28/2022 03:49 PM EDT New Jersey’s law enforcement officers are overwhelmingly white and male, according to a new report from acting Attorney General Matt Platkin. The report analyzes statewide data on the demographics of law enforcement officers, including race, ethnicity, gender and age, comparing it wi...

A Wake County, N.C. jury found Brian Sluss guilty Thursday of killing Monica Moynan, his ex-girlfriend and the mother of their two children, though Moynan’s body has never been found since she went missing in April 2019. By Pool videoA Wake County, N.C. jury found Brian Sluss guilty Thursday of killing Monica Moynan, his ex-girlfriend and the mother of their two children, though Moynan’s bod...

I don’t know that every year we will hit 96%, but we sure hope to be in the 90s every year. — Lumen Mulligan, a professor at the University of Kansas School of Law, commenting on the school’s 95.92% bar pass rate in 2021, which was the 11th-highest first-time pass rate of all ABA-accredited law schools. Ten of the top 15 law schools with the highest first-time bar pass rates are members of th...

El Milagro committed “flagrant” violations of state labor law for allegedly denying employees proper meal breaks and has been referred to the Illinois attorney general’s office, according to the Illinois Department of Labor. In a notice of noncompliance dated March 23, the agency found the Chicago tortilla maker had violated the Illinois One Day Rest in Seven Act because employees regularly w...

Press Releases 04/28/2022 (HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont is applauding the Connecticut House of Representatives for giving final approval today to legislation he proposed (Senate Bill 10) that will codify into state statutes the 2040 zero-carbon electric grid goal that he established through an executive order he issued in 2019. The governor explained that codifying this target into sta...