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President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a bill that aims to improve how the government tracks, measures, analyzes and prosecutes cybercrime. The Better Cybercrime Metrics Act, which was first introduced in the Senate in August 2021, will build a system to keep tabs on cybercrime incidents with an end goal of better identifying threats and preventing attacks. The act cracks down on con...

Tallahassee, Fla. — Last week, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement (OALE) arrested a man for knowingly selling stolen property to a pawn shop in Broward County, Florida. “We’re grateful to our Ag Law officers for conducting a thorough investigation and ensuring that any individual profiting from stolen merchandise will be ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal appeals court granted Florida's request to reinstate portions of the state's election laws on Friday while it appeals a lower court's decision that the law was aimed at suppressing Black voters. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said that Judge Mark Walker's March ruling that the law intentionally targeted Black voters is flawed. The three-judge panel issued...

Jackson Lewis Law Firm Logo San Francisco City and County District Attorney Chesa Boudin and Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón have filed a lawsuit in the California Superior Court in San Francisco accusing the Potter Handy LLP law firm of filing thousands of “boilerplate, cut-and-paste federal-court lawsuits that falsely assert its clients have standing under the Americans w...

A federal appeals court has ruled that Florida can temporarily reinstate its restrictive voting law ahead of the midterm elections. The Florida law, known as Senate Bill 90, added new restrictions on drop boxes, third-party voter registration, mail voting, and “line warming” activities like giving voters food and water while they wait in line to cast a ballot. In March, U.S. District Court Ch...

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed into law a measure expanding access to a Michigan child abuse registry, after seven years of pushing by the mother of a victim of abuse at the hands of a caregiver with previous convictions. “It’s like winning the Stanley Cup or the World Series,” Macomb County mom Erica Hammel told The Associated Press after Whitmer signed Wyatt’s Law, named ...

Law professor Elise Boddie, who teaches at Rutgers-Newark, is founder and director of The Inclusion Project (TIP), which works to promote systemic equity in public education. Since 2017, she has collaborated with civic organizations, students, faith leaders, educators, and researchers to desegregate the state’s public schools. She also advises counsel for plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging s...

WESTFIELD — District Attorney Anthony Gulluni spoke to students taking Practical Law with teachers William Moore and Timothy Daub on May 2 in the auditorium of the Westfield Technical Academy. Daub said the course studies constitutional and criminal law, using real-life scenarios. “The students seem to enjoy it,” he said, adding that they get to play the roles of judge and jury. The class was...

Conservatives are seeing red over a new Oregon law that requires menstrual products to also be offered inside boys’ bathrooms in the state’s public schools. In July 2021, Democratic Gov. Kate Brown signed the controversial “Menstrual Dignity Act,” which requires all K-12 schools to provide free sanitary products to students — along with instructions on their use, Fox News reported. “Starting ...

Variety Camila Cabello will host a benefit concert on Sunday, May 8, to announce the launch of her “Protect Our Kids” Fund. This emergency fund, established in partnership with Equality Florida and Lambda Legal to protect students and families from Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” law, will also provide resources to impacted students, teachers, and families. The launch event will be held at...