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January 06, 2022

New California law eliminates ‘surprise’ insurance fees for COVID-19 testing - KRON4

A man swabs his nose at a COVID-19 testing on the Martin Luther King Jr. medical campus Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KRON) — A new California law that went into effect on January 1, requires health insurance companies to offer free COVID-19 testing to their customers. SB 510, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 8, requires health pla...
January 06, 2022

Push on to separate coroners from law enforcement in California - Courthouse News Service

Jo Naylor / Flickr (CN) — A new bill introduced in the California Assembly this week would separate coroner offices from sheriff's departments. State law places, by default, a county's coroner or medical examiner's office inside its sheriff's department, though the law also allows a county board of supervisors to separate the two entities. Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco counties all...
January 06, 2022

Anchorage spent thousands of dollars posting anti-panhandling signs citing a law found unconstitutional - Anchorage Daily News

Anchorage A sign warning against panhandling is posted where the ramp from southbound lanes of the Seward Highway meets Tudor Road on January 6, 2022. (Marc Lester / ADN) The municipality spent more than $8,000 to post anti-panhandling signs at dozens of Anchorage’s busiest intersections in December — but the city law cited on the sign was found unconstitutional by a state court years ago. T...
January 06, 2022

DA: Wilton lawyer who stole from client sentenced to year, lost law license – The Daily Gazette - The Daily Gazette

PHOTOGRAPHER: File Photo BALLSTON SPA — A Wilton lawyer was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison and paid more than $860,000 in restitution to a client from whom she stole during a five-year span. Ellen K. Zwijacz, 43, was sentenced to 364 days in the Saratoga County Correctional Facility by Judge James A. Murphy III in Saratoga County Court. Zwijacz pleaded guilty to grand larceny in...
January 06, 2022

CHAIN COMMAND: New Texas law that prohibits dogs from being chained outside may not work here - Tahlequah Daily Press

CHAIN COMMAND: New Texas law that prohibits dogs from being chained outside may not work here  Tahlequah Daily Press
January 06, 2022

Patent Law's Fifth Column: Motivation to Combine with Reasonable Expectation to Success - Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch Apotex Inc. v. Cephalon, Inc. (Supreme Court 2022) In its petition for writ of certiorari, Apotex asks the Supreme Court to revisit motivation to combine, obvious to try and whether the non-obvious contribution needs to be an improvement over the prior art. The petition argues that KSR v. Teleflex (2007) requires a flexible analysis, but that “over the ensuing decade-and-a-ha...
January 06, 2022

True Blue Campaign kicks off in supporting law enforcement - KTNV Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Backing the blue. Thursday kicked off the “Go True Blue” campaign aimed at supporting local police in the valley throughout the year. An applause for valley police with the Las Vegas sign lit up with blue lights. It’s all part of the “Go True Blue” campaign. “It gives the community the opportunity to show their appreciation for the men and women of law enforcement and in pa...
January 06, 2022

Opinion: Delay legislation on long-term-care law has hearings scheduled for next week - clarkcountytoday.com

Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center looks ahead to the first week of the legislative session and what is scheduled for the long-term care law discussion Elizabeth Hovde Washington Policy Center House Bill 1732 was pre-filed on Jan. 3 and already has hearings scheduled next week (Jan. 11 and Jan. 13). The bill would “delay the implementation of the long-term services and supports t...
January 06, 2022

Frozen road law expanded, including more N.E. Wisconsin counties - WeAreGreenBay.com

(WFRV) – Select counties in Northeast Wisconsin are under frozen road law as of Thursday, Jan. 6 – joining other counties in the northern part of the state. But what does this mean? And what do liquid-filled tubes under the pavement have anything to do with it? According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), the frozen road law was in effect for some counties already, referr...
January 06, 2022

Appellate Tax Board adds to body of law on remotely accessed software - Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

1st Circuit revives Carbonite securities class action