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Getty Images A series of bills introduced by Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature to change the state’s child services system puts too much power in the hands of prosecutors and unfairly targets Native Americans and people of color, advocates say. All of the bills, according to their author, Rep. Barbara Dittrich (R-Oconomowoc), are meant to get children into a permanent home faster throu...

History lesson: 1820 interpretation of common law at issue in Supreme Court

Smyrna property owners who open their homes to travelers could soon be subject to regulations on vacation rentals. A task force is putting the finishing tweaks on an ordinance to set occupancy, maintenance and enforcement guidelines for Smyrna’s short-term rentals. City officials said it’s a move motivated by years of complaints over noisy house parties, vehicles parked in neighbors’ yards an...

Passengers prepare to board Amtrak’s California Zephyr (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The leader of Amtrak told a U.S. House panel Thursday that the recently enacted infrastructure law made great strides to solving the passenger rail system’s financial woes and placed it on equal footing with other modes of transportation. Democrats on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Commi...

The Office of the Quartet (OQ) works to increase Palestinian economic and institutional development and empowerment. Based out of Jerusalem and with offices in Ramallah and Gaza, the OQ engages across five key sectors: water, energy, movement and trade, rule of law and telecommunications, using its unique position and deep expertise to support the development of critical enabling projects, ag...

The International Space Station is a great example of how space has, for the most part, been a peaceful and collaborative international arena. NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center/Flickr, CC BY-NC (Image credit: NASA) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Michelle L.D. Hanlon, Pr...

Many of the downtown Minneapolis employers revised their return-to-work plans recently because of the Covid-19 delta variant — and now some of them are gearing up again to bring employees back in a more meaningful fashion. Fredrikson & Byron The largest law firm in the Twin Cities by attorney count is taking it slow. The firm had plans to bring employees back several months ago, but scra...

Special to the Twinsburg Bulletin TWINSBURG – The city’s new law director will not have to travel far from his old job, as Hudson solicitor Matthew J. Vazzana will come north a few miles to replace David Maistros. Twinsburg Council confirmed the appointment of Vazzana at its Dec. 7 meeting. He will continue to work in Hudson until Dec. 31, will start his new duties Jan. 3, 2022 and will wor...

Emily Buchholz, Molly Mckinsey, and Edmond Pine examine honeycomb held by Susan Brown, owner of Mademoiselle Miel, on the roof of her shop ~Photo by Tony Nelson. When third-year law students Molly McKinsey and Edmund Pine signed up to spend last summer as practice scholars through Minnesota Law’s Corporate Institute, they knew they’d be busy helping local small business owners. What the...

gebhardt & kiefer.jpeg A recent unreported case has addressed numerous business interruption insurance claims by essential businesses due to losses because of COVID-19 [Highgate Hotels, L.P.v. Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co., 2021 N.J. Super. Unpub. Lexis 2404 (Law Div. 2021)]. These were businesses that were allowed restricted operation but were not completely closed. The case applied New Y...