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A Missouri law added an unconstitutional set of protections for cops, St. Louis argues in a new lawsuit. DANNY WICENTOWSKI A lawsuit from the City of St. Louis seeks to block a 2021 law that created a suite of new protections for police officers. The suit alleges the provisions created a system of "pervasive favoritism" benefitting cops while neglecting to create a constitutionally requi...

Empty bottles for takeout cocktails line the bar at North Light restaurant in Oakland on Aug. 14, 2020. Sen. Bill Dodd’s SB389 allows restaurants to keep selling takeout mixed drinks and glasses of wine through the end of 2026. Even as state lawmakers scaled back their agendas to accommodate another session upended by the coronavirus pandemic, the California Legislature passed hundreds of bil...

DES MOINES — With some parents, community members and state lawmakers demanding the removal from school libraries of books they deem to be inappropriate, librarians and advocates for LGBTQ youth are pushing back on what they see as censorship and an attack on marginalized students. And a legal expert in Iowa says at least one of the books being challenged does not meet the statutory definitio...

The city of Twinsburg will have a new face in the administration with the new year, as law director David Maistros will be leaving next month. Maistros notified Mayor Ted Yates and City Council that he has accepted a city manager position in California, with his resignation effective Jan. 21, 2022. “The city of Twinsburg has been an extremely important part of my life for many years. I will...

MADISON, Wisc. (AP) — A group formed to support former President Donald Trump’s agenda is working with Wisconsin Republicans on a ballot measure that would bypass the state’s Democratic governor to change how elections are run in the battleground state. The effort represents a new escalation in the ongoing Republican campaign to alter voting laws in response to Trump’s false claims of widespr...

This inBrief examines the latest amendments to the Bankruptcy Law (Federal Decree Law No. 9 of 2016, as amended) introduced under Federal Decree Law No. 35 of 2021 (the New Law) and their impact on the personal liability of the board of directors and managers of bankrupt companies. The New Law came into effect on 1 November 2021. In contrast with earlier amendments to the Bankruptcy Law (such...

Crews from Peoples Gas and KS Energy Services connect individual homes to a new gas main that's been recently installed in the Montclare neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side, Oct. 14, 2021. The work is part of the utility's $7.7 billion pipeline replacement program to replace 2,000 miles of aging iron pipes below Chicago streets. As cold weather arrives, consumers across the country are b...

Although the holiday honoring Christopher Columbus has passed this year, the passions of many of the legal combatants over the statue are still running hot, and several legal challenges are still unwinding in court which could determine the fate of the statue in South Philadelphia’s Marconi Plaza. George Bochetto is the primary attorney at the forefront of several legal cases in which he is t...