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Florida Supreme Court building TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Florida’s Supreme Court has accepted jurisdiction of a case about whether Marsy’s Law can be used to shield the identities of police officers who use deadly force in the line of duty. The case involves the City of Tallahassee and the Florida Police Benevolent Association. The issue dates back to three officer-involved shootings in the ...

Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) slammed his primary opponent and fellow West Virginia Rep. Alex Mooney (R-Va.) for supporting President Biden's bipartisan infrastructure package in an ad released on Tuesday. "It was a bill no conservative would support but David McKinley did," the ad's narrator says in the ad, which was featured in Punchbowl News. "Biden's trillion-dollar spending bill was dead...

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today's episode is based on a listener's question on how to deal with the unique challenges of 3L year, such as finding the motivation to study, balancing different responsibilities, and dealing with anxieties over bar exam prep and student loans. In this episode we discuss: >What are some of the challenges and opportunities that show up in ...

Introduction The scope of the mandatory choice-of-law rule set forth in Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) section 8-110(a)(1), which provides that “the local law of the issuer’s jurisdiction . . . governs . . . the validity of a security,”[1] is one of the important issues in the ongoing dispute between Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) and holders of its no...

Community Voices features opinion pieces from a wide variety of authors and perspectives. (Submission Guidelines) We must assess projects based on how they could help slow climate change — for example, elevating projects that will reduce vehicle miles traveled and emissions by providing safe options for walking, biking or transit. With the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act...

Labor Law and Unions: Weathering the Enforcement Storm  CPAPracticeAdvisor.com

BOSTON, Dec. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New England-based law firms Verrill Dana LLP (Verrill) and Rackemann, Sawyer, & Brewster (Rackemann) announce that they will combine effective January 1, 2022. The newly combined firm will operate as Verrill, with Rackemann’s entire professional and administrative staff relocating to Verrill’s Boston offices at One Federal Street over the next sev...

Law Firms Verrill and Rackemann Combine, Forming a New Regional, Full-Service Powerhouse  The Bakersfield Californian

Mark Makela/Getty In 2021, the state legislative push to restrict access to voting was not only aggressive — it was also successful. Between January 1 and December 7, at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting. More than 440 bills with provisions that restrict voting access have been introduced in 49 states in the 2021 legislative sessions. These numbers are extraordin...

Credit: Michael Vi/Shutterstock.com What You Need to Know A bankruptcy judge in New Jersey could decide by Feb. 15 whether to grant dismissal of the Chapter 11 case. If the bankruptcy survives dismissal, 'it’s going to be Plan A' for corporations, said UCLA law professor Lynn LoPucki. Focusing on whether the bankruptcy was filed in bad faith might not guarantee dismissal, said Lewis & Cl...