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On Nov. 8, 2021, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill amending New York’s Civil Rights Law by adding a new section that requires employers to give prior written notice of any electronic monitoring to employees upon hire. The law takes effect on May 7, 2022. The law applies to all private sector employers in New York, regardless of the size of the employer. The law requires notice for any ...

BOSSIER CITY, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Bossier City residents who use a credit card to pay monies owed the city online are going to see a price hike, as the Bossier City Council has voted to charge processing fees back to the customer. The city claims surcharges levied by processing companies for online payments became increasingly burdensome on the City’s budget, and it 2020 cost the City more than...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced that four communities across the State of Maine have received a total of $750,000 to hire law enforcement officers. This funding was awarded through the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program. “In Maine and throughout the country, the dedicated men and women of ou...

We have previously reported on the new law that became effective this past summer in Washington requiring TPAs that administer self-funded workers compensation to become licensed with the Washington Department of Labor. However, Washington has enacted another law governing Health Care Benefit Managers (“HCBMs”), effective January 1, 2022, codified at Wash. Rev. Code §§ 48.200.010 et seq. The ...

Kyle Rittenhouse, center, waits for the judge before the jury is relieved for the day during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. A jury on Friday acquitted him on all charges. The Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Wisconsin has focused attention on self-defense laws around the country. But if his case were to have occurred in Utah, it might not ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- California employment law firm Davtyan Law Firm is continuing its mission to empower the underserved demographic of hourly and low-wage workers across the Golden State by opening a new office in San Francisco. California employment law firm Davtyan Law Firm is continuing its mission to empower the underserved demographic of hourly and low-wage work...

Ice-T on the set of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images. Graphic by Calum Abbott. Pitchfork writer Alphonse Pierre’s rap column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, Instagram freestyles, memes, weird tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. Law & Order: SVU is propagating dangerous rap stereotypes Currently in its 23rd...

The nice, friendly COVID that Epstein thought we’d have in March 2020. It’s been about 20 months since NYU Law professor Richard Epstein published an article declaring that America had nothing to fear from the novel coronavirus because it would only claim the lives of, approximately, 500 people. He based this prediction on his own “Darwinian Economics” model because he is, after all, not a sc...

Image via Getty/Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Last week, NBC aired an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit titled “Nightmares in Drill City,” a drill rap-based episode that’s as sensational as the title suggests. The episode synopsis states, “[Assistant District Attorney] Carisi asks the SVU for help with a murder investigation when one of the witnesses shows signs of abuse.”...

Yale Law School. Photo from Shutterstock. In a federal court complaint that includes allegations of vendettas, gossip and lies, two unnamed Yale Law School students claim they were blackballed from job opportunities because they refused to lie for the university's investigation involving a law professor of color. The professor is Amy Chua, according to the complaint. Some wonder if the filing...