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The St. Paul City Council was poised to approve zoning amendments on Wednesday aimed at making it easier to install townhomes, clusters of cottage homes, “mother-in-law” apartments and other types of medium-density “neighborhood scale” housing across the city. The zoning changes follow the first phase of the city’s “1-4 Unit Housing Study,” which aims to create more “infill” housing — a kind ...

A former Vermont legislator and House majority leader has died with the help of a law he himself helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives, his wife said. Willem Jewett died Jan. 12 at his home in Ripton at age 58, said his wife, Ellen McKay Jewett. He was diagnosed with mucosal melanoma over a year ago. In the days before his death, he supported changes to the 2013 la...

BancorpSouth wins city of Tupelo bid despite thorny state law provision  Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

China Publishes Draft Amendment to Company Law The Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress issued the draft Amendment to the Company Law (“Amended Company Law”) on December 24, 2021 for comment through January 22, 2022.1 Since its enactment in 1993, the Company Law has already been amended five times. The draft Amended Company Law consists of 15 chapters and 260 articles and...

The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. (Reuters) - A former client of Steptoe & Johnson urged a Washington, D.C., judge to deny Steptoe's "breathtaking" bid fo...

[co-author: Jenna Conwisar] Effective January 1, 2022, California implemented several important changes to its consumer protection laws, ranging from data privacy to debt collection to updates to the Consumer Legal Remedies Act. This post highlights several notable changes that companies and practitioners may wish to bear in mind as they ring in the new year. Data Privacy In the world of data...

Charles D. Vega of the Law Firm of Charles D. Vega in Florida. Courtesy photo Surviving law school is never easy, but for Florida attorney Charles Vega, it involved working a full-time job, driving 180 miles a day and using all of his free time to study. That’s because Vega decided to attend law school at 55, after a successful career in marketing for Fortune-500 companies. Now, he runs a rem...

Jenny Dettrick / Getty Images The state of California has introduced a new law that requires households and businesses to compost all food scraps, instead of throwing them into the trash.1 This law, known as S.B. 1383, took effect on January 1, 2022, although it was signed in 2016 by then-governor Jerry Brown and will still take another two years to phase in fully. The bill's goal is to reduc...

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to take the first step toward allowing micro-enterprise home kitchens in the county last week. KPBS Speak City Heights reporter Jacob Aere says the law could officially change by late February, but some local home kitchen owners have already been shut down. Rosalind Johnson loves to cook soul food staples from her hometown of St. Lou...

New Jersey is doing better than 11 states by having laws on the books that a traffic safety advocacy group says would reduce traffic deaths, but the state still lacks some laws considered essential to bring the death toll down. The annual report, “Out of Control” Traffic Deaths gives New Jersey good marks for having 13 laws on the books in 2022 out of 16 laws recommended by the Advocates for ...