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What You Need to Know More high-powered attorneys have joined fights over if providers are immune from COVID-19 wrongful death suits. Appeals are pending in the D.C., Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh circuits. More high-powered law firms have joined nursing homes and other health care providers in the fight over whether the facilities, faced with COVID-19 wrongful death laws...

Ballot box. Photo: Shutterstock.com Pennsylvanians’ votes on a proposed victim’s rights amendment will not be counted, the state Supreme Court ruled, because the question posed to voters on the ballot contained multiple, unrelated parts, in violation of the single-subject rule. The high court upheld the Commonwealth Court’s entry of a permanent injunction that blocked votes cast on the victim...

Florida Supreme Court (file photo). TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether law enforcement officers involved in fatal shootings can keep their identities shielded from the public. The question at issue is whether the constitutional protections for victims of crime extend to on-duty officers. Florida voters approved Marsy’s Law and established a crime victims’ bil...

(AP Photo/Marc Levy) HARRISBURG, Pa (WTAJ) — Governor Tom Wolf signed 9 new bills into Pennsylvania State law and vetoed one that would require public school teachers to continually post curriculums, books, and more online. Before Christmas comes to the Commonwealth, Wolf signed into law House bills 291, 1255, 1260, 1837 and 2071, and Senate bills 208, 772, 729 and 869. Gov. Wolf also vetoed...

After an Independence police officer was killed in a shootout in September, Missouri state law enforcement initially refused routine federal assistance in tracing the murder weapon. The same month, a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper released a federal fugitive after a traffic stop. The incidents are described in a blistering court brief filed Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice out...

HARRISBURG, Pa (WTAJ) — Governor Tom Wolf signed nine new bills into Pennsylvania State law and vetoed one that would require public school teachers to continually post curriculums, books and more online. Before Christmas comes to the Commonwealth, Wolf signed into law House bills 291, 1255, 1260, 1837 and 2071, and Senate bills 208, 772, 729 and 869. Gov. Wolf also vetoed House Bill 1332. He...

HELENA, Mont. – Governor Greg Gianforte today provided guidance to Montana employers and employees impacted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule mandating vaccines for employers with 100 or more employees nationwide. “Montana law is unequivocal: employers are prohibited from discriminating based on vaccination status,” Gov. Gianforte wrote in guidance to Montanans....

(ohio.org) COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVG) - Gov. Mike DeWine signed Ohio’s born alive bill into law on Wednesday. It requires doctors to perform life-saving care on fetuses that survive rare failed abortions. Those who fail to do so will face felony charges. The legislation requires doctors to report cases of fetuses living after abortions and attempted abortions. It also bans abortion clinics from wo...

FILE PHOTO (weisschr/Getty Images/iStockphoto) DAYTON — Before fireworks are technically legal for Ohioans to set off, the city of Dayton is already pushing to ban them within city limits. “Over the last several years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Dayton has experienced a proliferation of fireworks use in its neighborhoods,” an ordinance introduced during Wednesday’s D...

(AP Photo/Marc Levy) HARRISBURG, Pa (WTAJ) — Governor Tom Wolf signed 9 new bills into Pennsylvania State law and vetoed one that would require public school teachers to continually post curriculums, books, and more online. Before Christmas comes to the Commonwealth, Wolf signed into law House bills 291, 1255, 1260, 1837 and 2071, and Senate bills 208, 772, 729 and 869. Gov. Wolf also vetoed...