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Several Michigan unemployment insurance claimants who have received bills from the state saying they owe money back are suing Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency and its director Julia Dale. Attorneys David Blanchard and Frances Hollander with the Ann Arbor law firm Blanchard & Walker said they filed a 37-page class-action complaint Friday in the Michigan Court of Claims, stating th...

California’s net neutrality law was signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown in 2018. A federal appeals court has upheld California’s net neutrality law, rejecting an attempt by telecommunications industry groups to prevent the state from enforcing it. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a previous ruling, which means the status quo stays and the state can continue to enforce the law. This...

EDISON, N.J., Jan. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following Gov. Phil Murphy's re-declaration of a Public Health Emergency on January 11, 2022, essential workers in New Jersey are once again entitled to a legal presumption that makes it easier for them to obtain workers' compensation benefits after contracting COVID-19. Given the latest development, Levinson Axelrod, P.A. is again reviewing potenti...

Law Dean appointed to Oregon Transportation Commission Marcilynn A. Burke, Dean of the University of Oregon School of Law, was recently confirmed to the five-member Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC). Governor Kate Brown nominated Dean Burke, the Dave Frohnmayer Chair in Leadership and Law, to serve on this volunteer commission. The Oregon Senate confirmed Burke as the newest member of th...

Burglary from cars (WJHG) PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Sometimes it’s as simple as pressing the lock button. “The majority of our burglaries, I would say that 90% of them are people leaving their doors unlocked,” Captain John Deegins, with Panama City Beach Police Department, said. Tuesday, roughly a dozen cars in Panama City Beach were broken into. “When I say broken into, I don’t m...

Limited liability companies (LLCs) in Ohio are facing significant changes with a new law, the Ohio Revised Limited Liability Company Act (the Act). The Act becomes effective soon on February 11, 2022. By replacing existing Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1705 with a new Chapter 1706, the Act fully modernizes LLC law in Ohio and provides new mandatory and default rules for LLCs. Ohio business owners...

Today (January 28, 2022), is National Data Privacy Day. While not a day of celebration with cards or gifts, the day does provide an opportunity to check in on the developments in consumer data privacy across the United States. What can we safely expect to see by the time National Data Privacy Day rolls around in 2023? The short answer is, “plenty.” Companies that do business in or -collect da...

Editorial 600140761 Invest to Protect Act would fund array of improvements in policing. St. Paul police officers investigate a homicide in July 2020 in St. Paul. While crime continues to dominate the news here and around the country, a small group of Democratic and Republican U.S. House members have been quietly working together on solutions that could bring federal help to smaller police de...

Later in this midterm election year, voters in 19 states will head to the polls with new, more restrictive voting laws on the books. One of those states is Texas, where the party primaries are just a few weeks away. Some voters and election workers say one provision in the new law in the Lone Star State is already causing confusion. Geoff Bennett reports. Read the Full Transcript Judy Wood...

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including Texas’ new restrictive voting law, the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer and who may replace him on the Supreme Court. Read the Full Transcript Judy Woodruff: And that brings us to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart. That is New York Times ...