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Following the legal challenges facing OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard mandating vaccinations, Florida passed legislation banning private employers from mandating COVID-19 vaccines unless several exemptions are offered to employees. The law, signed during a special legislative session on November 18, 2019, does not explicitly prohibit private employers from mandating vaccination, but rathe...

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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed legislation approving new voting maps in the state. Every 10 years, lines for all the state and US congressional seats have to be adjusted as new population numbers come in. Those new districts setting up battle lines between Republicans and Democrats. With 2020 Census data coming in late thanks to the pandemic, Governor Kevin Stitt ...

UNITED NATIONS (KXAN) — A human rights expert working for the United Nations cited the new voting law and political maps approved in Texas as examples of the country’s broader failures to protect the rights of minorities. Fernand de Varennes, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on minority issues, said he visited Texas as one of the stops during his 15-day trip to several states and American territor...

FILE - American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa Legal Director Rita Bettis Austen speaks during a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa, May 15, 2018. An Iowa law that prohibits Medicaid coverage for sex reassignment surgeries for transgender residents violates state law and the state constitution, a judge ruled in a decision made public Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. Bettis Austen says it's an historic ...

If you tune into 60 Minutes on CBS this coming Sunday, you’ll hear a bit about a Traverse City business and the work they do around the country. According to local lawyer Douglas E. Fierberg, who owns the downtown-based Fierberg National Law Group, the lead story on the November 28 episode of 60 Minutes will explore fraternity violence and his firm’s work around that topic. “Among other matte...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's governor on Monday stood by his decision to sign sprawling limits on COVID-19 restrictions into law, even though his own office warned the bill would violate federal disability law and put the state at risk of losing federal funds. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, in his first public comments since The Associated Press revealed his legislative counsel's email warn...

The thing that separates the rule of law from the rule of tyrants is that it is what it is and enforces itself equally, no matter who or what is subject to it. But for the Claremont Institute (read: the group that coup author John Eastman hangs around), opting in and out of the law appears to be worthy of a scholarship. Not for you bright-minded 0Ls out there — for the sheriffs. This appears ...

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents interdicted six migrant smuggling attempts over the weekend that resulted in 56 arrests and identified two migrant stash houses. On Nov. 19, McAllen Border Patrol Station (MCS) agents responded to a call for assistance from La Joya Police Department (LJPD) officers in a search for several individuals that fled on foot following a...