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The American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal announced a joint lawsuit on Thursday challenging a law restricting transgender athletes in middle school and high school. This time, in Tennessee. The lawsuit challenges SB 228, a law signed by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on March 26 that requires middle and high school students to participate in sports based on a student's sex "at the time of ...

Panel eyes more action on 'Good Cause' law  Hudson Valley 360

The Justice Department announced Thursday it has sued the State of Texas over its restrictive voting law that went into effect in September. The complaint argues SB1 violates Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act "by improperly restricting what assistance in the polling booth voters who have a disability or are unable to read or write can receive." SB1 affects voters who have a disability by p...

On October 28, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law Senate Bill S4394A, which amends section 740 of the New York Labor Law (NYLL) to enhance protections for private-sector employees who allege retaliation for reporting violations of and “law, rule or regulation.” While cases alleging whistleblowing and the reporting of unsafe working conditions have been on the rise since Marc...

FILE PHOTO: Texas Governor Gregg Abbott speaking to the press following his tour of the Southern border wall on June 30, 2021. Abbott announced that Texas had begun building its state border barrier days before. Credit: Sal Castro, ValleyCentral MIDLAND, Texas (Nexstar) — Governor Greg Abbott was in Midland Thursday to host a roundtable discussion with local law enforcement about the southe...

Community members from across the Coastal Bend lined up to support and watch area law enforcement escort the body of fallen Kingsville police officer Sherman Otto Benys Jr. back home to Kingsville on Thursday afternoon. The procession began at the Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office in Corpus Christi and passed by the Kingsville Police Department on its way to Turcotte Piper Mortuary. B...

FILE — 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, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, in Sacramento, Calif. An appeals court formally ended a lawsuit, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, that in 2018 temporarily suspe...

Local law enforcement agencies will be ramping up DUI enforcement this weekend as the Colorado State University Rams take on the University of Wyoming Cowboys in Laramie, Wyoming. According to a release from the Colorado Department of Transportation, to help ensure the safety of fans traveling back and forth to the game are safe, local agencies from Colorado and Wyoming will team up as part o...

FILE — 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, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, in Sacramento, Calif. An appeals court formally ended a lawsuit, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, that in 2018 temporarily suspended a law by ...

FILE PHOTO: Texas Governor Gregg Abbott speaking to the press following his tour of the Southern border wall on June 30, 2021. Abbott announced that Texas had begun building its state border barrier days before. Credit: Sal Castro, ValleyCentral MIDLAND, Texas (Nexstar)- Governor Greg Abbott is in Midland to host a roundtable discussion with local law enforcement about the ongoing crisis at...