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The law allows the Department of Health to open syringe exchange programs around the state, instead of requiring municipalities to approve the programs themselves. Rachel Sullivan (left) with the Hazel Project in Morris County attends a protest against the Oasis Drop in Center needle exchange in Atlantic City in July. In a victory for harm-reduction advocates in New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy o...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – A new Tennessee law requires those working in the field of cosmetology to take training to help identify signs of domestic abuse. As of Jan. 1, barbers, hairstylists, nail technicians, estheticians — anyone in the cosmetology field — has to take at least one hour of domestic abuse training in order to obtain a license to practice the profession. The training is fr...

The NLRB seal is displayed on a glass doorway at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. The National Labor Relations Board will reconsider Trump-era precedent allowing workplace arbitration agreements to include clauses requiring workers to keep the proceedings confidential. The NLRB on Tuesday invited the public to file briefs on whether it should reverse its 2020 ruling in California...

The University of Notre Dame announced last fall that, for the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. Day would be a holiday for students, faculty, and staff. With no classes scheduled for the day, each member of the Notre Dame community would be free to honor King’s legacy in their own way. Notre Dame Law School took the opportunity to start a new tradition by giving law students, faculty, and s...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — South Carolina and Wyoming are the last two states without hate crime laws due to some Republican senators who questioned if it was necessary to add penalties to violent crimes based on someone’s intentions. However, Rep. Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston County, has been working to get hate crime laws passed in the state. The “Clementa C. Pinckney hate crimes act wou...

Senate bill could result in felony charges for serious injury to law enforcement animals  Columbia Missourian

JEFFERSON CITY — Causing injury or death to a police dog would be an enhanced felony offense under legislation presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee by State Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer, R-Parkville. Known as “Max’s Law,” Senate Bill 765 was inspired by the killing of a St. Joseph Police K-9 officer. Senator Tony Luetkemeyer was joined by St. Joseph Police Officer Dillon Powell and his K-9 pa...

Image from Shutterstock. Two federal judges—including the chief judge of a federal appeals court—won’t face misconduct complaints for hiring a law clerk accused of making racist statements. The judicial council of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a New York tossed the misconduct complaints in a Jan. 13 order, report the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (via Original Jurisdiction), Reuters, L...

Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir says she is worried the new mail-in ballot application requirement will disqualify a lot of voters from utilizing that mode of voting. (CBS Austin) AUSTIN, Texas — After airing out frustrations last week over having to reject hundreds of mail-in ballot applications because of a new requirement in the application, Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir - who he...

Mindy Isaacs thought little of it when she dropped off her son Ethan at a boating event. The 10-year-old, obsessed with boats and pirates, would have fun, she presumed. The Sarasota Youth Sailing club would take care of him. But that’s not what happened. Instead, the Pine View School sixth-grader died in the water after a boat operator coming to help his capsized boat fell overboard and his f...