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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) has delayed the enforcement penalties for the new notice requirements under the “Patients First Law” until July 1, 2022. This news comes as a relief to the provider community that has been working to understand the new notice and disclosure requirements that largely took effect simultaneously with the Federal No Surprises Act on January 1, 2...

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UPDATE: Lake County sheriff indicted on resisting law enforcement, reckless driving charges  nwitimes.com

FILE - A man holds a sign reading 'My son will not be an homosexual' during a protest called by religious associations against homosexuality on May 23, 2021, on the Obelisque square in Dakar, Senegal. A bill that would have increased the punishment for homosexual acts in Senegal from 5 years to 10 years will not be voted on, after lawmakers in a parliament committee on Wednesday rejected appr...

Attorney General issues legal alert to law enforcement regarding section 187 of the California Penal Code OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a legal alert to all California district attorneys, police chiefs, and sheriffs stating that section 187 of the California Penal Code was intended to hold accountable those who inflict harm on pregnant individuals, resulting in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil will continue to use and subsidize coal as an energy source until at least 2040, according to a so-called "just energy transition" law published on Thursday, which policy experts said goes against the climate and consumers. Broadly, "just transition" is a process aimed at ensuring the benefits of a green economy shift are shared wide...

Pigs at farm. (Dreamstime/TNS) Ever since Californians voted in 2018 to pass Proposition 12, a ballot measure that humanely requires more room on farms for egg-laying hens, veal calves, and gestating sows, pork producers have been fighting it. And in every federal district court and federal appeals court in which they asked for the law to be blocked, they have lost. The pork producers and oth...

The pile of guns collected on Saturday. Courtesy San Diego Police A group of gun owners have filed a lawsuit in San Diego federal court seeking to block the California Department of Justice from enforcing a newly signed state law that allows gun owners’ personal information collected during gun and ammo purchases to be shared with a research center studying gun violence. The suit filed Wednes...

A Canadian law banning so-called conversion therapy is poised to go into effect on Friday, making it a crime to provide or promote services intended to change or repress a person’s sexual orientation or gender expression. With the new law, Canada’s criminal code will prohibit forcing someone to undergo conversion therapy; taking a minor abroad to take part; and profiting from, promoting or ad...

Democrats aim to chip away at Missouri's new, controversial gun law  STLtoday.com