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A Ridwell customer in Portland. (Mick Hangland-) Ridwell, the company that collects hard-to-recycle items from Portland-area doorsteps, today sued Washington County in federal court after county officials kicked the Seattle-based company out of unincorporated parts of the county. Washington County argued that Ridwell is violating its exclusive franchise agreements with a limited number of tra...

Elliot Page and Matrix director Lilly Wachowski are fighting against an anti-trans bill that limits healthcare access for trans youth in Arkansas. The two stars have joined a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that is fighting against House Bill 1570 that prevents doctors and medical officials from giving trans youth necessary medical treatment and referring them to ge...

I’ve been receiving a number of questions about the roll out of Kari’s Law and I figured I’d do a quick post on it, even though it is not technically a TCPA issue. At a high level the Act requires that multi-line telephone systems (including certain VOIP and cloud-based systems) have the ability to pass a 911 dial through the system without having to “press 9” or any other number. It also req...

Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram are hoping to adopt.Courtesy Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram A couple in Knoxville, Tennessee filed a lawsuit against the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services this week alleging that they were denied services by a state-funded foster care agency because they are Jewish. Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram told TODAY that they first connected with the Holston...

There’s a lot of Law and Disorder right now in the NBC Thursday lineup. This month, “SVU” is up, up, up in the ratings. Mariska Hargitay’s show has risen 20% in January, jumping 17% in its return on January 6th to 4 million viewers. The next week “SVU” lurched ahead 3.26%. Last night was stable with just a slight fall off. This is pretty good considering “SVU” is in its 23rd year. Its main co...

Jay Rothman, CEO and chairman of the Milwaukee-based law firm Foley & Lardner LLP, will be the eighth president of the University of Wisconsin System. The decision by the UW Board of Regents Friday ends an 18-month chapter in which the state's public university system lacked a permanent leader. Rothman will take the helm from Mike Falbo, a former regent president, who will serve an an int...

Adding to the growing list of jurisdictions that have passed pay transparency laws, effective May 15, 2022, employers in New York City will be required to include salary ranges in job postings. Brief Summary The new pay transparency law makes it an “unlawful discriminatory practice” under the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”) for an employer to advertise a job, promotion, or transfer ...

Learn more about the law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy that affects police presence at the polls or ballot drop boxes. Gov. Phil Murphy signs legislation that forbids police officers to be within 100 feet of poll locations at New Jersey's State House in Trenton. (Shutterstock) NEW JERSEY — Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law a bill that took well over a year to make its way through the Legislature...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers were thinking of homeowners facing down burglars and people attacked on the street when they wrote a “stand your ground” law more than a decade ago allowing use of deadly force in self defense. They didn’t envision it applying to police officers, jail guards or government employees. Now even some Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature who support th...

Brian Gallini has been part of a statewide effort to develop more ways for law school graduates to become lawyers, like an assessment of practical skills or an apprenticeship under an experienced attorney. The Oregon Supreme Court recently greenlighted two possible options, though the bar exam isn't going anywhere. Brian Gallini, dean of Willamette University's College of Law (Courtesy/Willam...