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FILE - Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares speaks to the crowd during an inaugural celebration on Jan. 15, 2022, in Richmond, Va. Virginia's attorney general is using a new law to help free an innocent man from prison. Until recently, defendants serving prison sentences had to be very careful when they tried to prove their innocence to a court. Virginia law gave them only one shot, and ...

This is part of a two-day series by Bloomberg Tax Insights looking at the tax challenges facing cannabis businesses and how they can navigate conflicting state and federal laws. The discrepancy between federal and state law concerning cannabis creates significant challenges, risks, and potential pitfalls. Cannabis businesses would be wise to routinely assess their compliance under Section 280...

Richard Beresford, chairman and head of corporate at McCarthy Denning discusses the changing attitudes to ageism in law. In City law firms the “finders, minders and grinders” debate has traditionally been tackled using the lockstep approach to remuneration, sometimes modified to favour the somewhat rarer bread of “finders” over those performing the other two roles. But as long as you were pl...

Passaic County's June primary elections should be a walk in the park for most seeking a spot on the November ballot. Contested races this spring are few and far between. Republicans countywide face no in-party opposition in their June 7 primary. Only Democratic mayoral hopefuls in Haledon and Prospect Park will face off in a contested race. In Haledon, Michael Johnson of Grove Street is batt...

The city of Polson took a step Monday night toward reinstating a curfew ordinance for juveniles that was erroneously removed from the books five years ago. At the Polson City Commission’s regular meeting, commissioners approved a first reading of an ordinance that amends the city’s municipal code to implement curfew hours for minors. City Manager Ed Meece said the ordinance was eliminated by ...

Law enforcement is locking down an area north of George in an attempt to apprehend a suspect in multiple recent felonies. Grant County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Kyle Foreman said the operation is happening at a house near Road 2 Northwest and State Route 283. “Anyone in that area is asked to shelter in place.” explained Foreman, “That means stay inside your home, lock the do...

Mark Makela/Getty The Insurrection Act needs a major overhaul. Originally enacted in 1792, the law grants the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain conditions. While there are rare circumstances in which such authority might be necessary, the law, which has not been meaningfully updated in over 150 years, is dangerously...

The Washington state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that a city ordinance requiring that guns be locked up and kept out of unauthorized hands is pre-empted by state law. The ruling affirmed a three-judge state of appeals ruling last year in the case sparked by a lawsuit filed by three residents against the city of Edmonds after the city approved an ordinance in July 2018 requirin...

Protesters gather in front of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort over House Bill 3 on March 29, 2022. (CNN)A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a broad Kentucky abortion law, which includes a 15-week ban, from being enforced. The law, HB 3, which had gone into effect last week, bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, restricts access to medication abortion and enforce...

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, housed Harvard Law School, was founded in 2005. Experts in neuroscience and law discussed the legalization of cannabis and highlighted its implications for public policy at a virtual panel hosted by Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics on Wednesday. The event, joi...