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December 08, 2021

DA to review whether NYPD chief broke law by cutting ex-cop loose - New York Post

NYPD Chief of Community Affairs Jeffrey Maddrey showed up at the 73rd Precinct and ordered officers to void the arrest of former NYPD Officer Kruythoff Forrester, sources tell The Post. One of the highest-ranking members of the NYPD is being eyed by Brooklyn prosecutors for his role in getting a retired cop cleared of gun charges, The Post has learned. The probe centers around an incident fro...
December 08, 2021

Employee Privacy and COVID-19, CMS Vaccine Mandate Injunction and More - The National Law Review

As featured in #WorkforceWednesday: This week, we look at complying with the rules that require employers to keep employee COVID-19 vaccination and testing information confidential. HIPAA, Employee Privacy Protections, and COVID-19 Regulations for employee COVID-19 vaccination or testing remain in limbo, but many employers are crafting policies to ensure that they are keeping employee vaccina...
December 08, 2021

Supreme Court skeptical of Maine law barring state funds for religious schools - CNN

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: An exterior view of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 21, 2012 in Washington, DC. (CNN)The Supreme Court expressed deep skepticism Wednesday of a Maine school tuition assistance program that allows parents to use vouchers to send their children to attend public and private schools but excludes religious schools from the program. Conservative justices such as Samuel Alit...
December 08, 2021

New TCU mock trial team offers an opportunity for aspiring law students - TCU 360

Walter Flanagin and members of the TCU Mock Trial tea practice questioning a witness in a simulation courtroom setting. (Photo by Madyson Buchanan) The opportunity to join a mock trial is now available to TCU students. The team, which is the first of its kind to arise on campus, welcomes new members who wish to compete on behalf of the school. The team offers an opportunity for aspiring lawye...
December 08, 2021

Judge upholds Tennessee law with heavy penalties for sharing absentee ballot request forms - Tennessean

A Tennessee law that blocks sharing absentee ballot application forms will remain in effect, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Tennessee voters must apply for a vote-by-mail or absentee ballot by completing and submitting an application to their local election commission, who will then handle the process of sending out ballots to those eligible voters. Those applications are widely available. ...
December 08, 2021

Judge upholds Tennessee law with heavy penalties for sharing absentee ballot request forms - Yahoo News

Mail-in ballots are piled up, waiting to be counted at the election commission so they can then be scanned in Nashville, Tenn. Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020 A Tennessee law that blocks sharing absentee ballot application forms will remain in effect, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Tennessee voters must apply for a vote-by-mail or absentee ballot by completing and submitting an application to their lo...
December 08, 2021

10 Developments That Shaped Employment Law In 2021 | Proskauer Rose LLP - JDSupra - JD Supra

2021 was a transformative year for labor and employment law and fundamental employment dynamics. There was no shortage of highly influential decisions issued by courts around the country in 2021 — and California continues to sit at the eye of the storm. And, as we've seen for decades, what happens in California doesn't stay in California; California employment-related decisions and legislatio...
December 08, 2021

UNM School of Law Emeriti Facilitate The Conversation - UNM School of Law News

Brown University, Tougaloo College and the University of New Mexico School of Law partnered in June to host The Conversation, a three-week summer research dialogue among rising second-, third- and fourth-year undergraduates around issues of race, justice and the law as they have affected “involuntary Americans” (e.g., Indigenous peoples here before Columbus, Black people brought here enslaved...
December 08, 2021

Law enforcement responds to threat at Stoney Creek High School; credibility of threat in doubt - The Oakland Press

Stoney Creek High School (Rochester Community Schools) This afternoon a note containing “disturbing language” was reportedly discovered in a bathroom at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills. Undersheriff Mike McCabe said deputies were alerted to the threat by school officials. “At this time we do not believe that this is a credible threat,” McCabe said. “However, out of an abundance of...
December 08, 2021

Water Law Update: The Equitable Apportionment Doctrine: It’s not Just for Rivers and Streams Anymore - JD Supra

In case you missed it while preparing for your Turkey dinner, on November 22, 2021, the United States Supreme Court decided 9-0 that the Equitable Apportionment Doctrine, which had prior to this decision been held to apply only to surface waters, now also applies to interstate aquifers i.e., underground waters. Mississippi v. Tennessee, et al. [1] In 2006, the state of Mississippi filed suit ...