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Recently, several members of Congress introduced a bill aimed squarely at the digital marketing industry. Dubbed the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, the bill amounts to a targeted advertising law that looks to ban or seriously curtail what sponsors term “surveillance advertising.” Put simply, the Act would ban advertising facilitators (like Facebook, Google, and data brokers) from using...

(By Rick Seidel via Flickr) Attending law school tends to be an expensive endeavor, and nothing says customer service quite like choosing not to accommodate the health needs of your customers. The University of Chicago Law School appears to have had enough of the being-off-campus business and decided to resume in-person instruction this semester on January 24th. Dear Students, I hope that th...

GAYLORD, Mich. (AP) — A judge in northern Michigan has ruled in favor of a restaurant in a challenge to a law that was used to stop indoor dining during the pandemic in 2020. A portion of the law that gives sweeping authority to the state health department is unconstitutional, Otsego County Judge Colin Hunter said on Jan. 13. READ MORE: Hunter’s decision is limited to Otsego County in the no...

Dr. Gillian Schmitz is president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Congress passed the No Surprises Act last year to protect patients from surprise medical bills. This bipartisan legislation was on its way to being celebrated as a victory by all involved—something increasingly rare in Washington, D.C., these days. Unfortunately, insurance companies are already exploiting t...

The practice of law in the Bay Area is going to see more changes in the near future. SVBJ asked managing partners at prominent firms what new issues they expect to arise in the near future that could affect the nearly 70,000 licensed attorneys in the Bay Area (a count defined by the State Bar of California and how it defines the Bay Area region) They also took a look back at their own careers...

SACRAMENTO (CBS SF/AP) — California would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent, the youngest age of any state, under a proposal late Thursday by state Sen. Scott Wiener. Currently, Washington, D.C. allows such decisions at age at 11. Alabama at age 14, Oregon at 15, Rhode Island and South Carolina at 16. Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, says it’s ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 11, 2022. The Democrats spent the past two weeks holding a circus. The theme of that circus was that American elections would be illegitimate and reimpose “Jim Crow 2.0” unless Congress passed a radical overhaul changing how elections have been held in this country since...

Seeing as how 2022 is well underway, it’s probably about time we produced a new episode! Tune in for co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney as they discuss and debate: The various international and domestic law questions that might arise in that Russia (further) invades Ukraine The oral argument in Thompson v. Trump (especially the presidential immunity question) The who-owns-the-privilege...

A longtime New Mexico-based law firm has partnered with an Arizona-based firm to create a new business, according to a news release. The New Mexico-based Keleher & McLeod, P.A. combined with Jennings Haug Cunningham to create Jennings Haug Keleher McLeod, LLP, which will operate as a full-service, litigation and business law firm. “Attorneys with our firms have worked together over the ye...

BOSTON — The Baker-Polito Administration today re-filed legislation to substantially update the Commonwealth’s wiretap statute to recognize the current state of communication technologies and give law enforcement better tools to combat violent crime, including rape, hate crimes, and gang-related homicides. The Administration first filed this legislation in 2017. “As technology evolves and the...