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November 30, 2021

How Texas' Abortion Law Is Impacting Patients and Providers - Undark Magazine

hen Texas imposed the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, doctors and clinics were forced to move their patients quickly to out-of-state providers. And for the past two months, providers have had to work in a sort of limbo as they wait to see if the new law passes the Supreme Court’s review. “This is not patient care,” said CeCe Cheng, a maternal fetal medicine specialist in San Anto...
November 30, 2021

Repeal of Missouri gun law linked to increase in stolen firearms, study says - Kansas City Star

A new report has linked a change in a Missouri firearm law with an increase in the value of stolen firearms reported in the state — an indirect measure of an increase in the number of stolen guns. The study published Monday by researchers at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning public policy group, analyzed federal data 12 years prior and 12 years after the state’s 2007 repeal of ...
November 30, 2021

Xi is Bending Chinese Law to His Will - Human Rights Watch

Macao Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng, left, reads his oath of office in front of Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the inauguration ceremony in Macao, December 20, 2019. (New York) – The Chinese Communist Party does not usually air its dirty laundry in public. So it was an ominous sign last month when official Chinese media reported startling allegations against a disgraced senior police official: Su...
November 30, 2021

Target To Cut Number of Outside Law Firms, Legal Chief Liu Says - Bloomberg Law

Target Corp.'s chief legal and risk officer Don Liu. Don Liu has been at Target since 2016 Civil rights passion bleeds into work Target Corp. plans to lower the number of outside law firms it uses and will examine efficiency, diversity, and risk tolerance in deciding which ones to cut, said Don Liu, the company’s chief legal and risk officer. The retailer has begun multi-rounds of evaluat...
November 30, 2021

Law professors offer insight on Rittenhouse trial - Marquette Wire

The trial was held at the Kenosha county courthouse “It really is this perfect storm of a situation where all of these things that we as a country are taking sides over are involved,” Chad Oldfather, professor of law and associate dean for academic affairs at Marquette University, said. “You’ve got race, you’ve got guns, you’ve got protests. It made you feel like it was going to happen somewh...
November 30, 2021

California dad arrested in deadly shooting of 4 children, mother-in-law - Fox News

Fox News Flash top headlines for November 29 00:00 00:0002:57GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay A California father was arrested Sunday in the fatal shooting of his four children—all 12 years old and younger—and his mother-in-law. The shooting occurred Sunday at about 10:30 a.m. inside their Lancaster home, Fox 11 reported. Germarcus David, 29, was arrested Monday on...
November 30, 2021

Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years. Will that matter? - Rockdale Newton Citizen

Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years. Will that matter?  Rockdale Newton Citizen
November 30, 2021

Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years. Will that matter? - CNN

An estimated 5,000 people march around the Minnesota Capitol building protesting the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, in St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 22, 1973. (CNN)In a biting dissent two years ago, when the Supreme Court overturned a ruling from 1979, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that the decision "can only cause one to wonder which cases the court will overrule next." Breyer is about to...
November 30, 2021

Red Hook hearing on short-term rentals tonight; proposal faces resistance - Poughkeepsie Journal

Should Red Hook institute regulations on short-term rentals and prohibit them in certain zoning areas? The town plans to hold a virtual hearing on a proposed local law tonight to discuss the issue and hear public comment. The law would deny Airbnb-style stays “where they are incompatible with the existing uses and neighborhood characteristics,” and require hosts to be permitted through the t...
November 30, 2021

A controversial abortion law comes before the Supreme Court this week - NPR

NPR's Noel King talks to Nancy Northup of the Center for Reproductive Rights about the Supreme Court hearing arguments in a Mississippi abortion law case that could threaten to overturn Roe v. Wade.