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Crime is on the rise around the country, the midterm elections are fast approaching, and the largest bloc of House conservatives is preparing a comprehensive package of law-and-order legislation. The Republican Study Committee, led by Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, has catalogued every GOP argument about crime in the last two years and distilled it into a single memo to lay at the feet of President ...

Alabama law awarding honorary degree to civil rights lawyer  wvua23.com

Rachel Harmon is the Harrison Robertson Professor of Law and a director of the school’s Center for Criminal Justice. Photo by Jesús Pino University of Virginia School of Law professor Rachel Harmon has been named a recipient of one of this year’s All-University Teaching Awards, marking the seventh time in the past 10 years that a member of the school’s faculty has been honored for their passi...

Today, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) plans to take a key step to tee up a vote this week on writing abortion protections into federal law as the Supreme Court appears to poised to overturn its landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The effort by Democrats seems destined to fail but will ensure the issue remains front and center again following the leak of a draft court decision t...

A technology trade group that represents Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants has come out against a new directive from the Indian government mandating companies report cybersecurity incidents to CERT-IN within six hours of an incident. On April 28, the Indian government updated section 70B of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 to add several measures. Service providers, inte...

Attorney Mike McIntyre delivered the opening remarks to kick off the 2022 McIntyre Youth Leadership Challenge on May 6. This program was a joint initiative with the McIntyre Youth Leadership Challenge, North Carolina Bar Foundation, and North Carolina Bar Association Young Lawyers Division to honor Law Day, an annual initiative established in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to celebr...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a package of bills into law that will create a statewide child abuse registry. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)AP LANSING, MI – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed into law a package of bills creating a statewide child abuse registry that will track confirmed cases of people convicted of child abuse. The registered database will allow parents and guardians acros...

The state legislature passed a bill that will make gifting cannabis stricter if signed into law. (Shutterstock) CONNECTICUT — The state legislature passed a bill that aimed to curb cannabis bazaars that operated in a gray area since cannabis became legal in Connecticut. The bill now heads to Gov. Ned Lamont's desk for consideration. One of the most well-known bazaars occurred in Hamden. The t...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Now, more than ever, if you’re in the market for a car, you want to make sure you’re getting one that works and one that lasts. That’s why a local lawmaker is working to pass new legislation to increase consumer rights in Massachusetts. “The consumers have been demanding this for a long time and now is the time, hopefully, that we can be here to pass legislati...

Doug Blanke After 22 years at the helm of the Public Health Law Center, Executive Director Doug Blanke has announced his retirement, effective June 30. Doug’s achievements in public health policy, legislative advocacy, and consumer protection, span four decades on the local, state, national, and international stages. A former Minnesota Assistant Attorney General, Doug played a key role in the...