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Maryland lawmakers are looking to expand the state’s Good Samaritan Law, which provides protections for people seeking help to respond to an overdose crisis. Photo by Chalabala / stock.adobe.com. Rajani Gudlavalleti responded to a drug overdose near her work a few months ago. She said that bystanders at the scene were “too afraid” to call 911. But, as a member of the Baltimore Harm Reduction ...

Hunters, fishers and trappers in Indiana will be providing more money for fish and wildlife research, restoration of habitat and educational programs for hunters and archers in 2022. The money will come from the increase in Indiana hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for the 2022-23 license season, which begins April 1. The license fees have gone up for the first time in 15 years. Anyone...

It’s a new year with a new election cycle, and predictably we’re seeing crime-rate hyperbole from the political right. It’s an old ploy; don’t fall for it. Herb Bowman This fearmongering usually includes some type of bugle call to rally round law enforcement, and a suggestion, implied or explicit, that the other side does not appreciate law enforcement’s work. Let me state clearly: Democrats ...

"Justice is not postponed,” the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson observed in his 1841 essay "Compensation." But the stack of handwritten letters on Jamie Lau’s desk says otherwise. Lau, a professor at Duke University School of Law, attributes the influx of mail to national publicity surrounding the exoneration of Ronnie Long more than a year ago. “It’s had a big impact,” Lau ...

A bail bonds location near the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh Jails across Pennsylvania, unlike prisons, are meant to hold people charged with crimes before they stand trial for their charges. People in jail are not convicted, and are merely awaiting their day in court. Pennsylvanians might think, then, that jails — with people incarcerated before they are proven guilty — are only for pe...

CHICAGO, Jan. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zayed Law Offices, a premier personal injury trial law firm, announced the filing of a lawsuit against Walmart Inc. in connection with the shooting of a patron by an alleged employee in the parking lot of a Bolingbrook, Illinois store. Zayed Law Offices filed this complaint on behalf of a client alleging that Walmart Inc., the owner and operator of the s...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has issued a legal opinion on to what extent anti-Zuckerbucks election-law changes added to the state budget last year could expose elections officials and potentially others to criminal liability for election-related collaborations. He concluded that officials could undertake routine collaborations, but how narrowly they must do so remains uncertain. In an edi...

Several Indigenous groups protest against a proposed bill that criminalizes land invasions, outside Congress in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. (Credit: Jorge Saenz/AP.) Church activists are warning that land disputes involving large land owners and indigenous peoples have become more and more common in Paraguay. Over the past few months, there has been a dramatic rise in the n...

A tenant reported mold to health department. Her landlord evicted her; Indiana law helped.  The Indianapolis Star

ASHEVILLE - Stepping down after nearly two decades in the North Carolina House of Representatives, Susan Fisher, 66, acknowledges her stances often put her at the political fringes. Fisher, who represented parts of her home town of Asheville and Buncombe County for 18 years in the House, began as a liberal in an overwhelmingly moderate Democratic party. Then in 2010, she became part of a la...