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American law’s worst moment in 2021 was really not one moment at all, but a series of moments that unfolded across the country in red states. All of them were brought about in the name of the law, using legislation and other legal processes with the aim of hastening the end of democracy. While there is not much new in my accounting of those actions and events, I hope, by chronicling them here...

--> Sorry, we're having issues playing this video. In the meantime, try watching one of the videos below. BALTIMORE, Md. — Building roads and bridges often times comes at a cost to neighborhoods. A study has estimated that over 1 million Americans were displaced when highways were built decades ago. Glenn Smith was one of those impacted. He lived in West Baltimore in the 1960s and 1970s...

--> Sorry, we're having issues playing this video. In the meantime, try watching one of the videos below. BALTIMORE, Md. — Building roads and bridges often times comes at a cost to neighborhoods. A study has estimated that over 1 million Americans were displaced when highways were built decades ago. Glenn Smith was one of those impacted. He lived in West Baltimore in the 1960s and 1970s...

Recently, former congressman and then-Blue Cross official Vic Snyder asked for drivers to slow down. Speeds, he reported, were up over the last two years and not just in his neighborhood. In the first six months of 2021 deaths were up significantly. His neighborhood has no sidewalks, and kids, bikers, joggers, and Vic walking his dogs use the street. A vehicle obeying the 20-mph limit has a 5...

All levels of law enforcement are feeling understaffed. he Times Square ad was part of Spokane Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich's plan. A Times Square ad that spelled "Washington" as "Washinton," to be clear, was not. But combine the two — the $12,000 two-day Times Square billboard and a typo Knezovich blames on the ad company — and the result was the sort of cascade of free advertising that marketing...

Jared Nicholson said his experience as a professor at Northeastern University Law School was “wonderful and fulfilling” during an interview with the Lynn Journal this week. Nicholson, who was elected Lynn’s new mayor on Nov. 2, taught business law at the prestigious law school for two-and-half years. He was also director of Northeastern’s Community Business Clinic. He has left the NU position...

An incendiary weapon falls in Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on March 23, 2018. (Geneva, December 9, 2021) – The cruel consequences of incendiary weapons warrant reviewing and strengthening international legal rules governing their use, Human Rights Watch said today. Countries will decide whether to initiate talks on these weapons at a meeting of the Convention on Convent...

Welcome back to Higher Law, our weekly briefing on all things cannabis. I’m Cheryl Miller, reporting for Law.com from Sacramento. This week we’re looking at: A McCarter & English partner’s thoughts on New Jersey’s emerging cannabis market. The latest failed attempt to pass cannabis banking regulation. Garanimals, the kids’ clothing brand v. Garanimals, the marijuana strain. Opportuniti...

The American Association of Publishers Inc. filed for a preliminary injunction preventing Maryland from starting to enforce a law requiring publishers to distribute digital works to public libraries. The AAP previously sued Maryland, saying that the new law is preempted by the Copyright Act. The AAP, whose members include Harper Collins Publishers Worldwide and Cambridge University Press, sai...

A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FUTURE What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species By Rob Dunn Levees surround us. Yes, some hold back rivers that strain against their embankments. But others hold back diseases, which are ready to saturate and overwhelm the fragile walls of antibiotics we’ve erected. And sometimes levees fail. The metaphor extends beyond epidemiology. N...