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February 03, 2022

Medical marijuana patients cannot purchase firearms or ammunition, says federal law - WLBT

Because medical marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, anyone with a license to use cannabis is not allowed to possess or purchase firearms and ammunition. That law is regardless of whether or not an individual state has legalized the substance. MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) - Across Mississippi, thousands of people with health conditions are hoping to obtain medical marijuana once it becomes a...
February 03, 2022

WATCH: Law enforcement escorting bodies of fallen Bridgewater College officers home from Roanoke - WAVY.com

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — Authorities from across the Commonwealth gathered in Roanoke Thursday afternoon to escort the bodies of the Bridgewater College campus officers who died in Tuesday’s shooting back home. According to officials, the procession for Bridgewater College Campus Police Officer John E. Painter and Campus Safety Officer J.J. Jefferson was scheduled to leave from the Virginia Depa...
February 03, 2022

WATCH: Law enforcement escorting bodies of fallen Bridgewater College officers home from Roanoke - WFXRtv.com

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — Authorities from across the Commonwealth gathered in Roanoke Thursday afternoon to escort the bodies of the Bridgewater College campus officers who died in Tuesday’s shooting back home. According to officials, the procession for Bridgewater College Campus Police Officer John E. Painter and Campus Safety Officer J.J. Jefferson was scheduled to leave from the Virginia Depa...
February 03, 2022

Conditional rebates under antitrust law: EU courts’ Intel rulings confirm effects-based approach - JD Supra

After 13 years before the EU courts, on 26 January 2022 the General Court (GC) partially annulled the European Commission’s decision finding that Intel abused its dominant position by excluding its main rival from a computer chips market. Please see full Publication below for more information.
February 03, 2022

The 'Law Students Are Soft Because They Can't Handle Casual Racism' Takes Are Right On Cue - Above the Law

The lifecycle of one of these law school racism scandals follows a natural progression. But unlike the stages of grief, the course of these skirmishes progress through a pre-determined course of victim blaming: (1) It’s your fault for not understanding it; (2) It’s your fault for not accepting that it’s your fault for not understanding it; and finally, (3) It’s your fault because you’re too w...
February 03, 2022

Law enforcement weigh in on when to report a missing person - WQOW TV News 18

Law enforcement weigh in on when to report a missing person  WQOW TV News 18
February 03, 2022

Prospect of US privacy law in 2022 'grim' - IAPP

TechTarget reports on the potential for a federal privacy law in 2022, calling the prospect “grim” despite bipartisan Congressional support. Electronic Frontier Foundation Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien said the energy around privacy “has sort of flattened out” while U.S. states are adopting their own laws, and Resolute Strategic Services Executive Vice President Cory Simpson said questions a...
February 03, 2022

Levinson Axelrod, PA: New Law Gives New Jersey Motorists with Uninsured, Underinsured Claims Right to Sue Insurers Over Bad Faith - PRNewswire

EDISON, N.J., Feb. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Motorists in New Jersey now have the right to sue auto insurance carriers who act in bad faith when handling their uninsured or underinsured motorist claims, thanks to legislation recently signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy. The Insurance Fair Conduct Act creates a private cause of action allowing insurance consumers to bring first-party claims agai...
February 03, 2022

States can now access billions for speed cameras under Biden's infrastructure law | TheHill - The Hill

Story at a glance Federal guidance issued Wednesday states that billions of dollars allocated to highway and roadway safety can now go toward installing automated traffic enforcement, such as speed and red-light cameras. The allocated funds come from President Biden’s infrastructure law. The decision to open the funding toward automated traffic enforcement aims to curb the recent increases i...
February 03, 2022

California law forbids patients from being heard at doctor disciplinary hearings. That could change - Yahoo News

The California State Capitol building on Nov. 11 in Sacramento. Tracy Dominguez has often thought about standing in the lobby of the Medical Board of California and shouting. Maybe then she would be heard, she said. Since her pregnant 23-year-old daughter Demi died in 2019 while under the care of a Bakersfield doctor repeatedly reprimanded for negligence, according to state medical board reco...