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Story at a glance More than 50 influential transgender individuals on Wednesday filed an amicus brief supporting the ACLU’s lawsuit against an Arkansas law that would make providing or recommending gender-affirming care to minors illegal. Actor Elliot Page and filmmaker Lilly Wachowski detailed their experiences of gender euphoria following their transitions. Act 626 was set to take effect i...

SARASOTA, Fla. - More than a year ago, 10-year-old Ethan Isaacs lost his life in a boating accident in Sarasota Bay. Now his mom and dad are working with state lawmakers to make sure his memory lives on. The lure of the water and tales of pirates drew Ethan and his older brother, to sailing. "He was always smiling. An intent kid. Very happy. He loved his older brother. They spent a lot of tim...

Two law firms in neighboring states are joining forces to expand their reach. Albuquerque-based Keleher & McLeod and Phoenix-based Jennings Haug Cunningham LLP are now Jennings Haug Keleher McLeod LLP, they announced today. “We have many similar practice areas. We also have some that are distinct and unique to each jurisdiction,” John Sinodis, managing partner of the Phoenix office and ch...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — 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 also would prohibit teachers from advocating for “any doctri...

Two States Aiming to Adopt Self-Defense Law Named After Kyle Rittenhouse  Newsweek

Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq., executive director of the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College. Photo courtesy of Medgar Evers College The Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College (CLSJ) has appointed well-known racial justice attorney and advocate Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. as its executive director. Daniel Favors previously served as interim executive directo...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A project that will boost Great Lakes shipping in a crucial bottleneck and another intended to protect the lakes from invasive carp will get big funding increases under the Biden administration's infrastructure package, officials said Thursday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it would pump $479 million into construction of a new navigational lock at Sault Ste. ...

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. Hunter's decision is limited to Otsego County in the northern Lower...

The Power Law. By Sebastian Mallaby. Penguin Press; 496 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25 NOT EVERYONE is a fan of venture capitalists (VCs). One academic famously questioned whether they were “soulless agents of Satan, or just clumsy rapists?” Paul Graham, the co-founder of the Y Combinator startup incubator, published a “unified theory of VC suckage”, in which he likened the industry’s investmen...

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – $31 million in new dollars to law enforcement, public safety and first response agencies for recruitment and retention pay raises. That’s a budget proposal Governor Henry McMaster mentioned during his State of the State Address Wednesday night. Fire and police chiefs told 7 News, those funds would help with staffing shortages but not fix it all. It’s a career ...