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Cleveland State's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law is named for former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, who was a slave owner. CLEVELAND — During Monday's Cleveland City Council meeting, a resolution was introduced urging that the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University change its name. The school is named after former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice ...

Police chiefs from around the St. Louis area and the state are supporting a new lawsuit seeking to clarify a controversial Missouri gun law. In affidavits filed in court and in legal briefs filed by nearly 60 police chiefs belonging to either the St. Louis Area Police Chiefs Association or the Missouri Police Chiefs Association, police officials raise questions about Missouri’s new “Second Am...

Since prescription opioids were first introduced for pain treatment in the 1990s, the number of drug overdose deaths has quadrupled, and more than a half million Americans have died from an overdose involving an opioid.[1] The CDC has labeled this an epidemic, and most agree that it is a public health crisis. But courts are divided over whether this crisis is legally a public nuisance. As app...

Professor Rob Steinbuch of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock Bowen School of Law used guest lecturers to fill in for him on days that he observes as religious holidays for the last twenty years or so. UALR’s Dean, Theresa M. Beiner, decided that 2022 was the year to combo break that streak. I don’t know why this year was the one to make that call, but I doubt that it was due to the quali...

An obscure city law requiring self-closing doors in residential buildings is garnering attention in light of this past weekend’s horrific fire in a Bronx apartment tower. Passed by the City Council in 2018, the law mandated that building owners in the five boroughs ensure that all doors in their properties are self-closing if they provide access to corridors or stairwells. The legislation, wh...

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection facial recognition device is ready to scan a passenger in 2017, at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. Privacy advocates are concerned about the collection and potential sale of biometric information. Home to the university that developed the first web browser, Illinois has always been on the cutting edge of technology. But our state ri...

FILE – Same-sex marriage (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file) NEW JERSEY (PIX11) — Same-sex marriage officially became law in New Jersey on Monday after Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation codifying marriage equality in the Garden State. The governor said he was honored to sign the bill, which says that all state laws concerning marriage and civil unions are to be read with gender neutral intent,...

Burleson, Texas / USA - June 29 2020: Ghost gun in 9mm The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to enact a new ordinance to set standards for safe storage of firearms and to put restrictions on non-serialized guns commonly called “ghost guns.” A key component of the County ordinance is the requirement that all guns in homes be stored in a locked container or disabled with a tri...

State Sen. Michelle Hinchey, D-Saugerties, is shown at a press conference at the Boys and Girls Club in Kingston, N.Y., on Oct. 30, 2021. (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman file) SAUGERTIES, N.Y. – State legislation pushed by Sen. Michelle Hinchey “that will help bridge the digital divide in rural areas” has been signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul, according to an announcement by the senator’s ...

All public school students in Illinois age 7 and above now have the right to take up to five mental health days without penalty each school year. The law passed the Illinois General Assembly last year without a single dissenting vote. The new law comes at a time when there is increasing concern about the mental health of children, adolescents and teenagers and the stress that they are under d...