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Tamir Kalifa via Getty Images Dive Brief: Texas Senate Bill 911 became law on Jan. 1, banning third-party delivery aggregators from using restaurant branding and trademarks to suggest restaurants endorse a service in a misleading fashion. The legislation also grants restaurants a path to legal and injunctive relief if aggregators violate the law. Under Texas SB 911, delivery firms are prohi...

In September 2021, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 701, which regulates the use of quotas at warehouse distribution centers in California. AB 701 requires employers with large warehouse distribution centers to disclose quotas and pace-of-work standards to each employee upon hire or within 30 days of the law going into effect. AB 701 went into effect January 1, 2022, and employers mu...

A pumpkin sits in front of other garden waste at an anaerobic processing facility in Woodland, California. California kicked off 2022 by implementing a landmark composting law. Starting this month, everyone in the state is required to start composting food scraps and other materials in an effort to slash methane emissions. It’s a big change for many cities and consumers in the U.S.’s most pop...

Car dealerships are, in essence, giant lots staffed by folks trained in the art of emptying those lots as quickly as possible and repeating the process ad infinitum. But 2021 was a strange year for all of us, dealers included. Their lots emptied ... and then quite often stayed empty as supply-chain snafus idled auto factories (see this from Bloomberg News). Figures released this week indicat...

The Student Press Law Center is searching for an intern to help us tell the story of student press freedom: why we need it and how censorship threatens it. The storytelling intern will work to uplift the stories of student journalists and advisers nationwide, and share how our organization defends and supports them. The intern will work closely with our communications and outreach team to pro...

Credit: Shutterstock.com 2021 was a year of unprecedented disruption world-wide, and women in law did not escape the outsized impact of that disruption. My inbox was inundated daily with legal industry headlines announcing a new grim data point about women lawyers leaving the practice, failing to reach leadership ranks in law in parity with men, and not being compensated in equal fashion to t...

Signed into law in June 2020, stakeholders said an unintended consequence of the THRIVE Act meant that the payment of commissions to agents was banned if institutions received funding from a GI Bill. International education organisations such as the American Council on Education, NAFSA and American International Recruitment Council pressed for amendments to the bill to ensure institutions wou...

The Upshot The new law expands lobbying rules in Illinois to apply to all localities within the state. The law preempts all local lobbying regulations except for the City of Chicago. Lobbyists now must report any lobbying consultants they hire as well as the consultants’ expenses. Lobbying prior to completing the ethics and sexual harassment/discrimination training is a violation of state la...

County commissioners give themselves and law enforcement pay raises  Rapid City Journal

In 2022 one thing most Iowa restaurants and bars agree on is that the state’s alcohol distribution law is horribly outdated, and it's something that the Iowa Restaurant Association wants changed this year. Iowa's liquor distribution law dates back to prohibition One reason so many Iowa restaurants want to see the current distribution laws change is the age of the law. According to a KCCI repo...