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Law Student Uses Skills to Fight College Denying Extra Time for Miscarriage  Newsweek

Manicurist Can Proceed With Hostile Work Environment Claim Fried v. Wynn Las Vegas, 18 F.4th 643 (9th Cir. 2021) Vincent Fried, a manicurist at a salon in the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, was sexually propositioned by a customer. Fried immediately went to his manager to report the customer, at which point the manager allegedly told him to "just go [finish the pedicure] and get it over with" despi...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Alena Allen has been named interim dean for the University of Arkansas School of Law, replacing Margaret Sova McCabe, who, after stepping down last year, has become a senior adviser for strategic projects. The university announced Thursday that a search for the next UA law school dean will begin later this year, with Allen's appointment effective starting last Saturday. Allen,...

The Maine Freedom of Information Coalition sent Freedom of Access Act requests to 135 law enforcement agencies across Maine last year, seeking records of people’s complaints and disciplinary letters over five years. After receiving the request for records, some departments presented the coalition with an abundance of disciplinary records, while others offered only basic information that lacke...

The Maine Freedom of Information Coalition sent Freedom of Access Act requests to 135 law enforcement agencies across Maine last year, seeking records of people’s complaints and disciplinary letters over five years. After receiving the request for records, some departments presented the coalition with an abundance of disciplinary records, while others offered only basic information that lacke...

The California legislature, especially the Democrats, have been busy. Governor Gavin signed 770 new bills into law, most effective Jan. 1. Here’s a starter sample: To-Go Drinks Senate Bill 389 allows restaurants and some bars to sell to-go wine and cocktails until 2027, a 5-year extension on an emergency rule adopted early in the pandemic to help bars and restaurants. Booze sold for off-premi...

PFAS chemicals have been discovered at high levels in the water systems of Hoosick Falls, Newburgh, Petersburgh and dozens of communities on Long Island. (Adobe Stock) A new law on the books in New York establishes the most comprehensive drinking-water testing and notification program in the nation for Perfluorinated and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS), substances known as "forever chemical...

Last September, as New York Fashion Week was taking place for the first time in a year, Kathy Hochul, the new governor, sat front row at the Prabal Gurung show, marking a fresh era in the relationship of the fashion industry and the state government. “This is where all the eyes of the world are when it comes to fashion,” she later told Vogue. Just four months later, the eyes of the world may ...

Credit: Steven Rubin During a celebratory event for Lani Guinier at Harvard Law School in February 2018, Columbia Law School Professor Susan Sturm invoked a phrase that was familiar to all of Guinier’s family, friends, students and colleagues in attendance. It was a line that Guinier often used when prodding her students into pushing harder and thinking deeper: “My problem is, if you stop the...

The way a man was reportedly riding a horse all over a Kalispell parking lot had someone concerned he was trying to get onto a porch. He then fell off the horse, so they decided it was time to call the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office. Someone unfamiliar with firearms claimed men holding “machine guns” were walking on the side of the road. Turns out, the men were just hunters carrying shotgun...