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BOSTON — Legislators are weighing changes to a voter-approved law that would give auto manufacturers more time to comply with requirements to turn over vehicle “telematics data” to owners and independent repair shop owners. Question 1 was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November 2020 and modified the state’s “right to repair” law to allow auto repair shops to access telematics data from ...

Boston, Mass. (January 10, 2022) - 2021 was a year of significant new developments in Massachusetts employment law. Some of the new compliance challenges facing Massachusetts employers included the staggered commencement of paid leave benefits under the Massachusetts Parental and Family Medical Leave Act (PFMLA), increases in the state minimum wage, gradual elimination of Sunday and holiday p...

HONG KONG, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The Hong Kong government is expanding its use of a long-dormant sedition law in what some lawyers and democracy advocates say is intensifying a squeeze on press freedom. Evidence of the renewed reliance on the sedition legislation came in late December when China-ruled Hong Kong targeted two media outlets. On Dec 29, about 200 police raided the office of online o...

By Greg Torode and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Hong Kong government is expanding its use of a long-dormant sedition law in what some lawyers and democracy advocates say is intensifying a squeeze on press freedom. Evidence of the renewed reliance on the sedition legislation came in late December when China-ruled Hong Kong targeted two media outlets. On Dec 29, about 200 police raid...

“The American people are not buying the nonsensical talk of ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ or a voting rights crisis. Everybody apart from far-left activists and the press understands this emperor has no clothes.” Democrats in the Senate have pressed for an up-or-down vote on legislation that they say will strengthen voting rights. The Freedom to Vote Act would override many state laws and set national stand...

Mr. Biden did not go so far as to call for full-scale elimination of the filibuster, but said he supported an exception in the case of voting rights legislation.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Biden endorsed changing Senate rules to pass new voting rights legislation during a speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, warning of a grave threat to American democracy if lawmake...

KELLY TESTERMAN JACKSON CONTRIBUTED PHOTO EASTON — Kelly Testerman Jackson, who retired from the Maryland State Police as a captain, has joined the Mid-Shore Council on Family Violence staff as its law enforcement coordinator. Jackson will be working with law enforcement agencies across the Mid-Shore to ensure that victims of domestic violence are receiving advocacy services to the ful...

The Nord Kamal Mosque in Norilsk, Russia is the northernmost mosque in the world. Photo: Igor Sobolev “No major religion’s daily ritual observances are tied more closely to the movement of the Sun than Islam’s, so what do they do when the Sun never rises or sets?”1) This question provides an entry point for an analysis of the impact of the Arctic on Islamic law and practice. Universal religio...

Choices at the gas pump including ethanol or no ethanol gas are seen in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder NEW YORK, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. biofuel blending program known as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) could see its most transformative year yet in 2022, as the Biden Administration must make decisions to reset statutes that mandate U.S. renewable fuel ble...

Warsaw is awash with speculation that Poland’s de facto ruler, Jarosław Kaczyński, has lost patience with justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro (pictured) (Photo: Listen to article Poland is facing a deadline on Tuesday (11 January) to spell out to the EU Commission how it intends to bring its domestic judicial reforms into line with the order from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on ho...