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WARSAW, Poland — The defeat of a proposed COVID-19 law in Poland's parliament over free testing for employees has exposed deep divisions inside the ruling right-wing coalition and the waning influence of the country's most powerful politician, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, analysts said Wednesday. Some 61 lawmakers of the United Right ruling team led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice party abstai...

Image from Shutterstock. A former death row inmate in Tennessee will get a chance to seek parole as a result of a resentencing following prosecutors’ concession that he can’t be executed because of an intellectual disability. Judge Paula Skahan ruled Monday that Pervis Payne should serve his two life sentences for murder concurrently, which would make him eligible for parole in five years, ac...

“Adam’s Law” is named after Adam Oakes, who died of alcohol poisoning on Feb. 27, 2021 at a Delta Chi Fraternity house. His family is currently working on two anti-hazing bills. Photos Courtesy of the Oakes Family Katrina Lee, News Editor Valentéa Lopez, Contributing Writer Senate Bill 439, called “Adam’s Law,” passed unanimously through the Virginia Senate on Jan 26. “Today. it was 38-0!!!,”...

Opinion: Zealots aren't content with the already draconian laws our state already has. They want to duplicate the worst in the country. Once the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Texas anti-abortion vigilante law to go into effect you just KNEW Republican lawmakers in Arizona would piggyback on the repulsiveness. And, of course, they did. Among the latest attacks on women’s health care to come ou...

Denver City Council's Safety, Housing, Education, & Homelessness Committee meets to discuss expanded powers for the Office of the Independent Monitor, Jan. 16, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite) The group overseeing the Office of the Independent Monitor in Denver released the names of three finalists vying to become the city’s top law enforcement watchdog. Robert Booth II, a state assistant...

BYU Law Hosts 7th Annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference  KPVI News 6

A conservative legal group is urging parents to use their rights under a little-known 1974 law that gives parents a wide berth to review public school curriculum and opt out of commonplace surveys used by third-party contractors. America First Legal outlined in a guide how parents can use the provisions of the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, a largely unknown law that was passed in 1974...

ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg Law announced today the publication of its 2022 Outlook on Privacy & Data Security, which provides a detailed review of key activity in recent months and anticipated developments for the global and domestic regulatory landscape. The new report features exclusive content including the latest news coverage, in-depth perspectives from ex...

Illustration by Warren Craghead Several alumni of the University of Virginia School of Law have helped open doors to generations of Black lawyers at the school and beyond. In honor of Black History Month, here are some of their stories. Gregory H. Swanson Gregory H. Swanson ’51 became the University and Law School’s first Black student after he challenged the University’s segregation of stude...

Amid fierce opposition from Democrats, a Senate committee Tuesday backed an elections bill that includes adding more rules for voting by mail and creating a state office to investigate allegations of voting irregularities. The bill (SB 524), approved in a party-line vote by the Republican-controlled Senate Ethics and Elections Committee, could turn into one of the most-controversial issues of...