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The COVID-19 Response (Management Measures) Legislation Act 2021 has received royal assent and is now in force. The legislation amends the Property Law Act 2007 by implying into applicable leases a covenant requiring a rent abatement from 18 August 2021 if the lessee, or any sublessee of the lessee, is unable to gain access to all or any part of the premises to conduct fully their operations ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ervin Cohen & Jessup (ECJ) announced today that it has been included on the 2022 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" list and recognized nationally and also regionally in seven practice areas. The list is compiled annually by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®. "Ervin Cohen and Jessup is honored to be acknowledged by U.S News an...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — American Civil Liberties Union attorneys said if Nevada redraws its political maps without reallocating thousands of inmates to their pre-prison addresses, they will be in violation of a 2019 state law. The threat of a lawsuit and organization's insistence that prison officials compile more address could complicate the redistricting process that state lawmakers are ex...

Then-Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, is pictured in this file photo May 28, 1977, the day of his ordination as archbishop of Munich and Freising. A German law firm has delayed publication of it study of the handling of sexual abuse in the archdiocese between 1949 and 2019. (CNS photo/KNA) MUNICH (CNS) — A report on the handling of sexual abuse cases in the Arc...

Debbie Ziegler holds a photo of her daughter, Brittany Maynard, the California woman with brain cancer who moved to Oregon to legally end her life, during a news conference to announce the reintroduction of right-to-die legislation in California in 2015. An appeals court formally ended a lawsuit that in 2018 temporarily suspended a law that allows adults to obtain prescriptions for life-en...

ABINGDON, VA—Saying their failure to head off the fundamentalist legal code had prepared them for the difficult fight ahead, Virginia parents told reporters Wednesday that after watching their schools be taken over by Sharia law they refused to make the same mistake with Critical Race Theory. “We already saw what happens to our schools when we turn a blind eye to this kind of extremism, and I...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed two pieces of legislation Friday designed to curb federal COVID-19 mandates for workers in Alabama, in what the governor has described as “an un-American, outrageous overreach.” Both pieces of legislation, Senate Bills 9 and 15, passed in a last-minute scramble at the State House Thursday during the State Legislature’s special session on redistricting, which c...

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Robert Rubin, a lawyer for Travis McMichael, became the first defense lawyer for any of the three men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery to argue that his client was trying to make a citizen’s arrest permitted under state law. Mr. Rubin cited the law in his opening statement in the murder trial of Mr. McMichael; his father, Gregory McMichael; and their neighbor, William Bryan. The law in ques...

"There can be no other option but to dismantle the oligarchic system. Without this, it is simply impossible to overcome poverty in Ukraine and fully join the European community," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. (file photo) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has signed into law a bill intended to curb the political influence of the country's oligarchs. Zelenskiy signed the so-ca...