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Chicago’s police pension obligations could increase by another $3 billion total through 2055 if the state of Illinois passes a proposed law designed to force the city to acknowledge its probable liabilities for annual pay increases to retirees. Illinois State Senator Robert Martwick is preparing to push legislation in 2022 to change eligibility restrictions for cost of living adjustments for ...

DeSoto resident Kelly Wittmann provided this photo and others to the city council in 2019 showing what she referred to as a "tree cemetery" near the intersection of South Cockrell Hill and West Wintergreen roads. (Kelly Wittmann / Courtesy) Almost two years after DeSoto resident Kelly Wittman brought photos to a city council meeting showing “how a developer butchered trees in our community,” ...

DES MOINES — Let the political musical chairs begin now that the lines have been drawn to demarcate Iowa’s new congressional and legislative districts for the next decade beginning with the 2022 elections. Gov. Kim Reynolds made it official by signing into law the voluminous bill that lawmakers approved last week in special session on a bipartisan basis under Iowa’s nonpartisan redistricting ...

WSTA urges Gov. Newsom to enforce a state law on port fees passed down to truckers as ongoing supply chain crisis continues. Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves A trucking trade group claims terminal operators and ocean carriers are profiting from the supply chain crisis plaguing California ports. It is urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to enforce a state law to prevent those businesses from charging port t...

In the 2021-22 academic year, Oregon Law’s Legal Research and Writing Program welcomes colleagues from across the country who bring diverse backgrounds and approaches to teaching, legal scholarship, and the practice of law to the Oregon Law community. Below are details of our two legal writing guests, with Professor Natiya Ruan visiting in January 2022, and Professor Olympia Duhart, visiting ...

Ida’s Law: The promise, limitations of Oklahoma’s pursuit of justice for Indigenous people  Norman Transcript

JACKSON - There was a heavy law enforcement presence at East Feliciana High School Friday morning. At the request of the school system, deputies with the East Feliciana Sheriff's Office were on campus to carry out a search for drugs. The search occurred shortly before 10 a.m. and involved the use of k9 detecting dogs. At the conclusion of the search, deputies found one student in possession o...

Texas Trial Firm Sargent Law Earns Place on Best Law Firms List  inForney.com

Capitol Beat ATLANTA — Georgians turning back their clocks by an hour this weekend to begin observing standard time might be excused for thinking they don’t have to make the time change this year. But legislation the General Assembly passed last March adopting year-round daylight saving time won’t take effect unless and until Congress makes the change at the national level. Georgia lawmakers...

A new project led by Ford Foundation Professor of Law and Social Sciences Vicki Schultz and involving Yale Law students will examine the early work done by lawyers in the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section (ELS) — and analyze what that work might have to say for current and future civil rights law. With exclusive authority to prosecute cases involv...