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December 07, 2021

State Senator Says Bad Policies Related To Law Enforcement Officers Could Have Negative Impact On Frederick County - WFMD

Michael Hough says recruiting new officers could become difficult. Frederick, MD (KB) – State Senator Michael Hough joined WFMD’s Frederick Focus show to address challenges law enforcement officers are currently facing in Maryland. “This year, really the groups like the ACLU and these groups really took over and what they did, for example, to police officers, Maryland has now one of the worst...
December 07, 2021

John Templeton Foundation awards $2.1 million grant to ND Law's Religious Liberty Initiative | The Law School | University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame Law School

The John Templeton Foundation has awarded Notre Dame Law School a historic grant that will enable the Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative to explore new ways to facilitate principled pluralism in the United States and around the world. The grant, named “Protecting Freedom of Conscience through the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Initiative,” is the largest grant ever received by Notre Dame...
December 07, 2021

PHOTOS: Assistant Speaker Clark Celebrates New Infrastructure Law & Water Quality Improvements in Natick – Framingham SOURCE - framinghamsource.com

In full transparency, the following is a press release from Congresswoman katherine Clark’s office submitted to SOURCE media. *** NATICK – Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (MA-5) hosted a press conference yesterday, December 6, to celebrate the clean water infrastructure provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which President Biden signed into law on November 15, 2021. Clar...
December 07, 2021

S.African law change plan to allow land expropriation fails to pass - Reuters

A woman works her land amid a nationwide coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown, in Soweto, south-west of Johannesburg, South Africa July 31, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko JOHANNESBURG, Dec 7 (Reuters) - A proposal to change South Africa's constitution to explicitly allow expropriation of land with no compensation failed to win the two-thirds of parliamentary votes that it needed to pass on T...
December 07, 2021

Texas Passes Critical Race Theory Law, Regulating Teaching of Slavery, Race - Yahoo News

A more restrictive law designed to keep “critical race theory” out of Texas public schools became law on Thursday. Under the new law, a “teacher may not be compelled to discuss a widely debated and currently controversial issue of public policy or social affairs.” The law doesn’t define what a controversial issue is. If a teacher does discuss these topics, they must “explore that topic object...
December 07, 2021

Raffensperger defends record, voting law heading into a busy 2022 - GPB News

Caption Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended his record Monday even as he faced fresh criticism from his own party. Embattled Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended his record Monday as he faces continued criticism from his own party heading into next year’s election. In an appearance before the Rotary Club of Atlanta, the Republican state official pushed back on accusations...
December 07, 2021

Top 5 Firm Matches Bonus Scale - Above the LawAbove the Law - Above the Law

Any doubt that Davis Polk successfully redefined the 2021 bonus scale is melting away in real time. Firms are rapidly announcing bonus matches, providing the frenzied bonus atmosphere eerily lacking in the immediate wake of the original Cravath memo. It’s an exciting time to be an associate when firms offer a 15 percent bonus hike and the market offers a collective, “gee, that doesn’t seem li...
December 07, 2021

Fieger Law Firm files $50 million lawsuit against Consumers Energy over deadly house explosion - ABC 12 News

Fieger Law Firm files $50 million lawsuit against Consumers Energy over deadly house explosion  ABC 12 News
December 07, 2021

Stefanchuk signs law allocating UAH 8B to vaccinated Ukrainians - Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news

Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk has signed a law providing for the allocation of UAH 8 billion from Ukraine's state budget for 2021 to pay UAH 1,000 to every Ukrainian who was fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the parliament's website. Currently, the legislative act has been sent for signature to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The law provides for an additional increase...
December 07, 2021

Revive Law Protecting Against 'Coerced' Abortion, State Says - Bloomberg Law

An exam table stands in an operating room at the Whole Woman's Health abortion clinic in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. A South Dakota law requiring women seeking abortions to first consult with anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers must be revived to protect women against “coerced” abortions, the state told a federal appeals court. South Dakota has a compelling interest in p...