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JACKSON — Some clergy members, a group that advocates for LGBTQ rights and a group that advocates for rights of people with disabilities are calling on Mississippi legislators to expand the state’s hate-crimes law to cover offenses committed because of a victim’s disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, just as federal law already does. “When a person is targeted simply by who they ...

Image by Inactive_account_ID_249 from Pixabay The N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling against challengers of a repealed law affecting Mecklenburg County judges. The law would have converted countywide District Court judicial elections into district races. The General Assembly repealed the districting plan in 2020, rendering the legal challenge moot, according to the Appeals Court. The...

Warning: spoilers for One Piece chapter 1038 ahead! There are many bizarre powers in the world of One Piece, thanks to the existence of the mysterious Devil Fruits, but none of the abilities shown in the 24-year run of the best-selling manga make as little sense as those of the Ope Ope no Mi, possessed by the pirate captain Trafalgar Law. Trafalgar D. Water Law, nicknamed "the Surgeon of Deat...

Screenshot of www.registertovoteflorida.gov. A trial challenging Florida’s new voting restrictions began Monday with civil rights groups moving to block the sweeping Republican election law as an unnecessary burden on the right to cast ballots. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker is hearing the case, which combines a flurry of lawsuits from advocacy groups that sued shortly after Republi...

Thirteen U.S. states and two Latin America and Caribbean nations on Monday threw their support behind a lawsuit from Mexico that accuses several major U.S. gun makers of facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels, leading to thousands of deaths. The states and the countries of Antigua and Barbuda and Belize filed separate briefs urging a federal judge in Boston to not dismiss Mex...

One of the top environmental challenges for the new administration of Mayor Eric Adams and a mostly new City Council led by Speaker Adrienne Adams is to establish a sensible program for collecting and sustainably disposing of household organics – food scraps, yard waste and food soiled paper. These materials make up fully one third of the trash New Yorkers generate, roughly 4,000 tons of putr...

The Book of Boba Fett star Jennifer Beals is set to join NBC crime-drama Law & Order: Organized Crime in a recurring role. According to Deadline, Beals will play the yet-to-be-named wife of Mykelti Williamson‘s (Underground) Preston Webb, a New York drug kingpin and head of the Marcy Corporation. Webb was introduced this season as the main antagonist in the popular spin-off series. Beals ...

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* Hit the road Jack, but know you can’t track no more. If you’re an employer in New Jersey and don’t have permission, that is. [NLR] * Don’t like having money? Check out this list to see if your school is one of the most expensive to attend for that JD! [News-Daily] * A judge recently decided that two students suing Yale Law school won’t be granted anonymity. Hope the news doesn’t get out too...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost speaking at BGSU in November, 2021. Ohio Capital Journal Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost last week touted a successful effort he led among state attorneys general to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers. In a statement, Yost said he wasn’t opposed to vaccines, he was upholding the rule of law. But his office decli...