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Appeals court tries to gut tough consumer law | Thomas Elias  Santa Maria Times

This week, local news outlets across the country continued to report on the many benefits of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, including repairing and rebuilding the nation’s roads, bridges, and airports, replacing lead pipes and service lines, improving access to affordable, high-speed internet, strengthening resilience to climate change, creating good-paying, union jobs and s...

“Constitutional sheriffs” contend that their authority goes beyond enforcing the law to determining what the law is. These so-called sheriffs say their authority is greater than other elected officials because of their oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, according to a Washington Post op-ed by Christy E. Lopez, a “professor from practice” at the Georgetown University Law Center. Robert L. T...

Shortly after a Minnesota jury rendered its “not guilty” verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the phrase “as a Canadian” began trending on Twitter in Canada. The relevant tweets usually took the form of incredulous Canadians spluttering how, “as Canadians,” they could not fathom how a man caught so brazenly and recklessly wielding firearms could go unpunished. Yet if Rittenhouse had been...

PIPESTONE — Cole Robert Dezeeuw, of Pipestone, was charged with one count of storing meth paraphernalia in the presence of a child, a felony-level offense. Dezeeuw, 31, was also charged with a gross misdemeanor count of fifth-degree drug possession of a controlled substance. On Dec. 15, law enforcement from the Pipestone County Sheriff's Office and Buffalo Ridge Drug Task Force executed a sea...

The Laredo College Regional Law Enforcement Academy Class B-21 was honored on Dec. 17 for completing their intense training. Courtesy image Texas Border Business The Laredo College Regional Law Enforcement Academy Class B-21 was honored on Dec. 17 for completing their intense training. Laredo Police Cadet Jesus R. Ramirez was also recognized with the Academic Achievement Award. He was honored...

WASHINGTON — An Illinois man has been arrested for assaulting law enforcement with a dangerous weapon and other crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election. James Robert Elliott, 24, of Aurora, Illinois, is charged w...

Keypoint: Advertising platform settles with the FTC over allegations that it collected location data without consent and collected information from child-directed apps without notice or parental consent in violation of the FTC Act and COPPA. Online advertising exchange platform, OpenX Technologies, Inc., has been ordered to pay $2 million of a $7.5 million judgment to settle Federal Trade Co...

A worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran on Oct. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File) LUXEMBOURG (CN) — For a German telecom that makes half of its profits from U.S. business, the “risk of substantial economic loss” can be enough to trigger a loophole under an EU law that would otherwise let it carry on busin...

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after multiple bills he introduced became law during the first year of the 117th Congress: “Even at times when we seem irreparably polarized, the truth of the matter is there are real opportunities to address some of the biggest challenges facing our country in a bipartisan way,” said Sen. Cornyn. Bills sponsored by Sen. Cornyn ...