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Signage is seen outside of the Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S., September 14, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly (Reuters) - Is legal education’s pandemic boom beginning to fade? The number of applicants to law schools nationwide has declined year-over-year for the first time since 2018, according to data from the Law School Admission Council, a nonprofit that administers the Law...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke Monday afternoon from a Florida Highway Patrol office in Orlando. The governor began by saying that the state of Florida will continue to support law enforcement, calling the push to defund law enforcement "one of the most destructive movements." DeSantis went on to discuss his proposal to increase pay for law enforcement officers. He referred to the $1...

The department reported the number of DWI arrests this year marked an increase from the pre-pandemic 2019 Thanksgiving period, during which time 403 DWI arrests were made. Last week, the DPS reported law enforcement officials will be on the lookout for drivers who appear impaired during the department's extra holiday patrols campaign from Nov. 24 through Dec. 31. DPS reports the holiday patro...

(Originally published by Stanford News on November 24, 2021) Rayne Sullivan, a second-year student at Stanford Law School, served as a delegate to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, and was one of two U.S. representatives at the United National Climate Youth Summit in Milan, Italy. Growing up in South Florida and as a Hawai’i resident, Rayne Sullivan, a se...

Celebrity stylist Law Roach’s nephew died after falling out of a window on the 17th floor of a Chicago residential building. According to PEOPLE, Chicago police say the window screen had been pulled inward and that Lamar Roach Jr. was "found unresponsive laying on the sidewalk outside of the building." The toddler was taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The accide...

Mark Janus, the plaintiff in Janus vs. AFSCME, speaks to supporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 26, 2018. (The Center Square) – A West Virginia law that requires unions to get expressed written consent before withholding a worker’s money for political donations will remain in effect for now, thanks to a state Supreme Court ruling. The West Virginia Supreme Court ruled 3-2 to overtu...

The Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office reported the following incidents and felony arrests between Nov. 5 and Nov. 24. Arrests •Brent Keith Cantrell, 46, was arrested for one count of failure to appear on Nov. 11. He was placed in the county detention center under a $5,000 bond. •Jeremiah Lee Grant, 37, was arrested for one count of a probation violation on Nov. 10. He was placed in the cou...

Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable fall 2021 graduates. Emily Gale Tooher is no stranger to the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. As she graduates this fall with a Master of Laws with an emphasis in human resources and employment law, Tooher reflects on when she earned her Juris Doctor from ASU Law in 2019. Emily Tooher will gra...

While medical cannabis (pictured) and cannabinoid hemp flower can be sold legally in New York, adult-use sales could still be a long way off: "recreational cannabis" hopefuls are still waiting for news on the application processes for licenses to cultivate, process and sell the plant. ALBANY – In the latest attempt by lawmakers to preemptively refine New York’s cannabis licensing process, sta...

Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C., which the Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday, is about the types of remedies that plaintiffs may recover when they prove violations of certain federal anti-discrimination laws — in particular, whether such plaintiffs may recover damages for emotional distress. The facts of Cummings involve emotional distress damages for discrimination based on disab...