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January 21, 2022

NH Teacher 'Loyalty' Law Could Expand to Include Race Debate - Education Week

Collage: Laura Baker/Education Week (Images: iStock/Getty) Concord , N.H. - A Cold War-era law targeting “teachers’ loyalty” would be updated with today’s hot button issues under a bill heard by a House committee Thursday. A 1949 law prohibits teachers from advocating communism, but Republican Rep. Alicia Lekas, of Hudson, wants to add Marxism as a second “subversive doctrine.” Her bill...
January 21, 2022

UW System taps law firm CEO for next president - WMTV - NBC15

Jay. O. Rothman is selected to be the next UW System President. (The University of Wisconsin System) MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents selected the chairman and CEO of a Milwaukee law firm to lead the state’s public universities into the future. On Friday, regents voted unanimously to offer the system’s top job to Jay O. Rothman after the 62-year-old r...
January 21, 2022

California law would let teens to get COVID vaccine without parental consent - The Center Square

California law would let teens to get COVID vaccine without parental consent  The Center Square
January 21, 2022

Dodge Center man pleads guilty to impersonating federal law enforcement - KIMT 3

Dodge Center man pleads guilty to impersonating federal law enforcement  KIMT 3
January 21, 2022

Employment Law LARPing to Analyze Real Life Situations - The National Law Review

Three Ward and Smith labor and employment attorneys analyzed a number of real-life situations many employers are dealing with in the current landscape. The webinar, part of Ward and Smith's In-House Counsel virtual conference, challenged attorneys to provide solutions for workplace issues such as vaccination mandates, religious accommodations, hiring practices, and discrimination. The session...
January 21, 2022

Arizona water authority to get $18.5M under infrastructure law - The Arizona Republic

A water authority created in 2020 by legislation sponsored by Rep. Greg Stanton to bolster water accessibility and cleanliness for rural and Indigenous communities will get $18.5 million via the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure law. "For far too long, small, rural and tribal communities in Arizona haven't gotten their fair share of federal infrastructure dollars," Stanton, D-Ariz.,...
January 21, 2022

Search underway for 3 men in Bushnell area prompting heavy law enforcement presence - FOX 35 Orlando

LAKE MARY, Fla. - There is a large law enforcement presence in Bushnell as a search is underway for three men. Troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol and deputies with the Sumter County Sheriff's Office are looking for "three black males that are on foot" in the area of county roads 624 and 476. This area is just west of Interstate 75 near exit 314. A Sumter County Sheriff's Office helicopt...
January 21, 2022

McKee gives nursing homes a break from minimum-staffing law - The Providence Journal

A new law that would have fined nursing homes that don't comply with minimum staffing requirements won't go into effect for another month. Gov. Dan McKee issued an executive order on Friday that delays the law from going into effect until at least Feb. 14. The law was supposed to be effective Jan. 1, but nursing homes had warned that they would be unable to meet the requirements and were alr...
January 21, 2022

Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP, a Leading Securities Fraud Law Firm, Announces Investigation of TaskUs, Inc. (TASK) on Behalf of Investors - Business Wire

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP (“GPM”), a leading national shareholder rights law firm, today announced that it has commenced an investigation on behalf of TaskUs, Inc. (“TaskUs” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: TASK) investors concerning the Company’s possible violations of the federal securities laws. “has a pattern of exaggerated and inflated business claims, incl...
January 21, 2022

Audit says Kennewick port official broke law voting to pay his own $49,000 legal bill - Tri-City Herald

Washington state auditors say a Tri-Cities elected official broke the law last year when he voted to reimburse himself for more than $49,000 in legal fees. Don Barnes, a Port of Kennewick commissioner at the time, was fighting a reprimand and sanction following accusations of attempting to stop a clinic from being built, and then retaliating against port CEO Tim Arntzen for refusing to go alo...