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April 22, 2022

Florida dentist charged with hiring hit men to kill prominent law professor - NBC News

A Florida dentist was arrested Thursday on charges that he hired hit men to kill his former brother-in-law, Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel. Markel, 41, was shot and killed on July 18, 2014, as he sat in his car talking on his cellphone. At the time, he was going through a bitter divorce with Charles Adelson's sister. Prosecutors allege that Adelson, 45, conspired to kill...
April 22, 2022

Gansevoort woman charged with Leandra's Law - nyspnews.com

Newsroom News Troop G - Latham NEW YORK STATE POLICE Major Richard J. O’Brien Troop G Commander On April 20, 2022, the New York State Police in Schuylerville arrested 40-year-old Elisha L. Novak of Gansevoort, for Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated- Leandra’s Law (E felony) and Driving While Intoxicated- Previous Conviction (E felony). Troopers stopped Novak for a traffic violation...
April 22, 2022

The art of artificial intelligence: a recent copyright law development - Reuters

The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. April 22, 2022 - Over the past several years, comedy writer Keaton Patti has popularized "bot scripts," in which he parodica...
April 22, 2022

Ukraine bans crypto purchase in local currency under martial law - MarketWatch

Crypto Getty Images Two months after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine has banned purchases in local currency of assets that can be directly converted to cash, including cryptocurrencies, to reduce capital outflow under martial law. Individuals are allowed to conduct “quasi cash transactions” only using foreign currencies, with a cap of 100,000 Ukraine hryvnia, or about $3,404 per month, the Natio...
April 22, 2022

Judge Blocks Montana's Transgender Birth Certificate Law - Flathead Beacon

HELENA – A Montana judge on Thursday temporarily blocked enforcement of a law that required transgender people to have undergone a “surgical procedure” before being allowed to change their sex on their birth certificates. The law was part of a growing list of Republican-controlled states including Alabama that have moved to restrict transgender rights as they gain more visibility in culture a...
April 22, 2022

A judge should know and follow the law - WIZM NEWS

If anyone knows the law, forward and backward, it is a judge. Particularly a judge on the Supreme Court. But former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman has worked hard to skirt the laws regarding the retention of public documents. Gableman is heading an “investigation” into the 2020 election in Wisconsin, at a cost to taxpayers of some three-quarter of a million dollars. But now ...
April 22, 2022

Edwards: Increase raise for teachers, law enforcement - New Orleans CityBusiness

The Legislature will likely be able to raise state teacher pay by $2,000 a year before the current session ends in June, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday. Edwards spoke at a livestreamed news conference at the Capitol in Baton Rouge as the state House wrapped up work on a $38 billion 2022-2023 operating budget that already has $1,500 raises for teachers. The Democratic governor said he’s p...
April 22, 2022

NO SUPRISE?: The Czar is Better Read than MOST Entire Am Law Firms According to the National Law Review - TCPAWorld.com

I find myself staggered by my own impressiveness this morning–and that’s never a good thing. So everyone knows TCPAWorld.com is special, incredibly well read and an endless fun time. And while many surely realize–if they ever pause to think about it–that what I do as a blogger is every ounce as extraordinary as what I’ve been able to do as a complex litigator (google officially lists me as an...
April 22, 2022

Graduating Student Tiffany Mickel '22 Blazes Trail as First Black Virginia Law Review Editor-in-Chief - UVA Law

Tiffany Mickel ’22 plans to work at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., after law school before clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Photo by Julia Davis Before starting her studies at the University of Virginia School of Law, Tiffany Mickel founded The Heiritage game company and developed a set of playing cards celebrating prominent African American women...
April 22, 2022

U.K. Probes WindAcre's Nielsen Stake Under New Takeover Law - Bloomberg

The U.K. is investigating the rapid stake-building of WindAcre Partnership LLC in Nielsen Holdings Plc to ensure it complies with the country’s new beefed-up takeover regime, according to a person familiar with the matter. WindAcre had amassed a 27.3% stake as of April 18, according to U.S. filings. U.K. officials at the Investment Security Unit are investigating whether that stake should hav...