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JACKSON — Mississippi is enacting a new law that says state and local government agencies cannot withhold services or refuse jobs to people who choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The ban applies to state agencies, city and county governments and schools, community colleges and universities. COVID-19 vaccination mandates have not been widespread in Mississippi, but some lawmakers s...

The Reedy Creek Improvement District is reassuring investors after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that will dissolve the special district. In the document acquired by WESH 2, Reedy Creek officials remind investors that Florida has pledged to fulfill the terms of any agreement made with bond holders. "Pursuant to the requirements and limitations of Florida’s Uniform Special District Accountab...

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James announced today that she has issued guidance to New York state law enforcement agencies to remind them about tenants’ rights to organize. Under New York Real Property Law § 230, tenants have the right to form tenant associations and hold tenant meetings on or in the property where they live. In a memo sent to law enforcement agencies across t...

“In their amicus brief filed last week, the Chicago Patent Attorneys told the Justices that the Interactive Wearables case presents a ‘better opportunity’ to clarify Section 101 eligibility law because it involves ‘an intuitive technology’ with ‘tangible components for executing a series of recited operations.’” A group of patent practitioners told the Supreme Court on Thursday that a case i...

A black bear crossing the street in Asheville, North Carolina. Credit: CBS Video posted by police showed a smarter-than-average bear taking a tourist jaunt through downtown Asheville – even taking care to use crosswalks at intersections – before police guided it back to nature. Asheville Police say the call they received Thursday about a bear milling through downtown is the third such call th...

BERGEN COUNTY CLERK TO BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT LAW DAY CELEBRATION On Monday, May 2nd at 3 pm, the Bergen Vicinage will hold its annual Law Day program. The Program entitled “Toward a More Perfect Union: The Constitution in Times of Change” will be held at the Court Street entrance to the Bergen County Justice Center, 10 Main St., Hackensack. The keynote speaker will be Bergen County Clerk,...

<p>Local law enforcement in Jonesboro are searching for 16-year-olds Gary Fields (left) and James Williams (right) who left the custody of a Department of Human Services Division of Youth Services facility Sunday, April 25. (Photo Arkansas Department of Human Services){/p} LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Local law enforcement in Jonesboro are searching for two teenagers who left the custody of an ...

Elizah Stein ’24 presents oral argument as the culminating assignment for the course Legal Research and Writing. Photos by Jesús Pino First-year oral arguments are an annual rite of passage for all J.D. students at the University of Virginia School of Law. For several days in the late spring each year, about 300 first-year students argue an appellate case before a panel of judges, typically t...

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom’s Hong Kong rainmaker, Julie Gao, is leaving the firm to join ByteDance Ltd., the Chinese owner of social media video app TikTok, as chief financial officer. Julie Gao Julie Gao. Gao is a prominent name in the legal sector and has for many years sewn up the market for high-value and highly complex U.S. initial public offerings (IPO) for Chinese companies....

Family members of seniors who died of COVID-19 in nursing homes hold a rally and demand then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation or impeachment on March 25, 2021, in Foley Square, New York City. The COVID-19 pandemic forced public attention somewhere it doesn’t often go: nursing homes. Since March 2020, more than 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 have been reported among residents and staff o...