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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The primary funder of a ballot drive to toughen Michigan’s voter identification law and restrict mass mailings of unsolicited absentee ballot applications is Ron Weiser, chairman of the state Republican Party. Secure MI Vote filed a statement Tuesday showing that Weiser donated $80,000 out of roughly $85,000 the committee raised between Sept. 30 and Oct. 26. READ MORE: ...

In September 2021, the Dutch Senate ratified the “Act to ensure a more balanced ratio between men and women on the management and supervisory boards of large public limited and private limited companies,” known as the Diversity Quota and Targets Act (in Dutch: Wet ingroeiquotum en streefcijfers) for short. The government’s position is that diversity in the workforce, especially on company boa...

CAL FIRE Law Enforcement Program The Law Enforcement program is an integral part of the CAL FIRE mission, protecting the State’s natural resources and people of the state of California for over 100 years. In 1887, employees of the Board of Forestry, including their assistants, were endowed with the power of a Peace Officer. During that year, the first Chief of Law Enforcement was appointed s...

Clayton Michael Duty, 35, of Chesterfield County, has several outstanding warrants for violation of a protective order, vandalism, malicious wounding, breaking and entering, felony eluding, burglary, credit card fraud and larceny, according to the Henrico Police Department. (Photo: HPD) HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Henrico Police Department said they are looking for a Chesterfield man w...

Professor Tabrez Y. Ebrahim is visiting at Iowa Law this semester, where he’s teaching Cybercrime & Security and Entrepreneurship Law & Ethics. His research interests are broad, and he recently completed a comparative work examining patents in Islamic law. Below he offers a synopsis of his work. Companies and law firms with a transnational presence in Islamic countries should recogniz...

Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, Law.com’s weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. I’m Amanda Bronstad. A bankruptcy judge has set two days of hearings on whether to grant an injunction that would halt lawsuits over Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based baby powder. A tentative decision on Monday found a group of California governments failed to distinguish legi...

Outside the Box The de minimis customs rule allows Chinese producers to ship directly to consumers, thus avoiding U.S. tariffs, taxes and oversight, and giving them an unfair advantage over U.S. producers and retailers. Getty Images/iStockphoto Last year, Amazon AMZN earned a staggering $21 billion. And much of that profit came directly from Amazon’s position as China’s online marke...

MGNA dog chained outside in winter weather. AUSTN, Texas -- After vetoing a similar measure over the summer, Gov. Greg Abbott at October's end signed into law a bill that makes the unlawful restraint of a dog a crime in Texas. The bill, which passed during the Legislature’s third special session of the year, will take effect on Jan. 18, 2022. Animal advocates have called for this legislation ...

Pro-choice and anti-abortion advocates both demonstrate outside the the Supreme Court on Monday. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein A California gun rights group filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in opposition to Texas’ new anti-abortion law because of worries that other states could copy it to limit gun ownership. The Sacramento-based Firearms Policy Coalition argued in its brief that “the app...

Photo: REDPIXEL – stock.adobe.com What You Need to Know More Big Law firms are jumping into the cryptocurrency space as adoption from Wall Street continues. With the institutional attention has come more regulatory scrutiny. Both factors are playing a role in the development of cryptocurrency practices in law firms.