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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A Tennessee lawmaker is proposing a new law that would reimburse accused killers if it’s proven they acted in self-defense and acquitted of the charges against them. Rep. Bruce Griffey of House District 75 has pegged the bill “Kyle’s Law”, in honor of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Wisconsin teen who shot and killed two people during a protest in Kenosha but was later acquitt...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - When Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett explained why he was not filing charges in the case surrounding Cedric Lofton’s death, he also mentioned the constraints with Kansas’ broad “stand your ground” law. That law and the cases that have applied to it were the bases for Bennett’s decision, announced Tuesday. The Kansas legislature passed the current “stand y...

<p>DEC Commissioner Seggos swears in Captain Karen Przyklek as the first female director of DEC's Division of Law Enforcement. (WRGB){/p} NEW YORK STATE (WRGB) — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos began the new year by naming Captain Karen Przyklek as the Director of DEC's Division of Law Enforcement (DLE). Przyklek's promotion follow...

While the new federal surprise billing law called the No Surprises Act went into effect on Jan. 1, New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance Russell Toal wants to remind people the state’s own surprise billing law has been around since 2020. “For two years, New Mexico’s Surprise Billing Protection Act has been shielding many New Mexicans from the serious financial impact of surprise medical bill...

Lawyers have a lot to juggle, from client meetings to research to court appearances. Because of this, it may make sense to outsource legal blog content to third-party services to save time and focus on billable hours. The concept is simple — law firms hire a writer or team of writers to handle the writing and publishing of legal blog content. This may be freelancers or agency writers, but eit...

A 2020 study found that 65% of law firms spend the majority of their marketing budget on online marketing. What this statistic doesn’t answer, however, is how much they spend on marketing overall and how this money is allocated to different digital platforms. The reason for this, in short, is that each law firm’s marketing budget depends on a variety of factors–from size, to service area, to ...

Charles Cooper, representing Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, responds to a question from Justice Stephen Breyer. (Art Lien) Sen. Ted Cruz is no stranger to the Supreme Court. In the 1990s, he served as a law clerk to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and between 2003 and 2010 he returned as a lawyer to argue nine cases there. On Wednesday, Cruz was before the court in a different capacity, ch...

Law enforcement across the metro is stepping up enforcement, hoping to keep us from using our phones while driving. It's in honor of a trooper who died in a crash caused by someone texting while driving. According to Oklahoma Highway Safety, in 2020 43 people were killed due to distracted driving, five of those tragedies were in Oklahoma County. In 2015, it became illegal to text and drive. T...

Michael Wallace during happier times Almost every week since September, people who have survived car crashes with catastrophic injuries have been coming to the state Capitol building to ask legislators for help. They're losing their care. That's because the new no-fault auto insurance law slashed payments to their care providers nearly in half. Many care providers are going broke. As each w...

New York's novel mandatory disclosure requirement is more extensive than what is required by its federal counterpart, mandating the disclosure of a litany of "information and documentation," accompanied by affidavits from a defendant and its defense counsel, within 60 days of service of an Answer in New York state court civil lawsuits. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have long required c...