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The National Assembly approved the new law unanimously, voting 142-0 on Tuesday evening. The legislation includes criminal penalties for people who are convicted of trying to “convert” LGBTQ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations. The law also opens the possibility for campaigners to file civil suits on behalf of victims, an advance hailed in parliament as a breakthrough...

Staff members at Rockdale Medical Center in Georgia show their appreciation for a lunch provided by first-year law students at the University of Mississippi. Submitted photo Emily Thrower, a first-year law student at the University of Mississippi, led an effort to raise $316 to buy lunch for all the health care workers in the emergency room and intensive care unit of Baptist Memorial Hospi...

Montana health-care providers and patients can move forward with a suit to invalidate a state law that prohibits them from withholding goods, services, or employment based on a person’s vaccination status, a federal court said. The Montana Medical Association, the Montana Nurses Association, three institutional plaintiffs, and several immunocompromised patients have standing to sue because th...

Louis René Beres, a specialist on matters of international law, philosophy and jurisprudence, comments on the political theory of 'State of Nature' against the backdrop of contemporary international law... “Where there is no Common Power, there is no Law….” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapter XIII The “State of Nature” as “State of War” From its modern beginnings in the seventeenth century – mo...

Miya Marcano (file) TALLAHASSEE – A proposed law named and filed in the honor of a murdered Central Florida student has cleared its first hurdle in the Florida Senate. The Committee on Community Affairs unanimously approved Senate Bill 898 Tuesday, also known as “Miya’s Law,” which would require landlords of apartments to subject potential employees to background screenings as a condition of ...

Women-only exercise areas in gyms and fitness clubs violate a state law banning discrimination based on gender, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The 6-0 decision written by Chief Justice Richard Robinson overturned a lower court ruling and an earlier decision by a state human rights official. The case involved two men who complained about women-only exercise areas at two gyms — an...

(Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus) A California judge decided this week to delay enforcement of part of a new farm animal welfare law that critics said would cause price hikes and supply shortages for bacon and other fresh pork products in the state. The law that went into effect Jan. 1 stemmed from a 2018 ballot measure where California voters set the nation’s toughest living space standar...

Competitive cheer is a sport Some stereotypes are so deep rooted that they become almost unrecognizable and often accepted for the norm. At best, they are carried out by omission and ignorance, at worst, by bigotry. Eddie Herz, RH’s sports writer, recently published a two part series titled “Defining moments from 2021” in which he highlighted significant Loveland-area prep sports moments. Yet...

Nashville law on home businesses challenged in TN high court  WSMV Nashville

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has decided to delay enforcement of part of a new farm animal welfare law that critics said would cause price hikes and supply shortages for bacon and other fresh pork products in the state. The law that went into effect Jan. 1 stemmed from a 2018 ballot measure where California voters set the nation’s toughest living space standards for breeding pigs. Su...