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Tennessee's new, sweeping COVID-19 laws could be fought in court under the same federal Americans with Disabilities Act arguments that already proved successful against Gov. Bill Lee's school mask mandate opt-out order. In fact, it's more than likely they will be, experts say. "I would not be surprised," if the state is swiftly sued and the new legislation blocked by the courts as soon as i...

Law enforcement gets more disciplinary protections in updated city code  Columbia Missourian

Voting-law hyperbole | Letters | mtstandard.com  Montana Standard

The board of education offices on Hunting Hill Avenue (SHAWN R. BEALS/The Hartford Courant) Thompson Hine, a law firm with offices across the country, has been retained to investigate recent allegations of improper conduct by school administrators. The investigation will center on allegations submitted to the Middletown Board of Education via email on Oct. 14 and related allegations made fo...

AUSTIN, Texas - A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Monday they would allow abortion providers to pursue a court challenge to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of pregnancy. But it was unclear how quickly the court would rule and whether it would issue an order blocking the law that has been in effect for two months, or req...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A new law that caps insulin co-pays goes into effect in Oklahoma today, coincidentally on the first day of diabetes awareness month. House Bill 1019 caps the copay for a 30-day insulin supply at $30 and $90 for a 90-day supply. It gives authority to the Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner to enforce that price cap. “Insulin is like air to us to people with type 1 diabetes,”...

Woman charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer  WCBI

FILE - A driver in his convertible cruises past a small group of anti-COVID-19 vaccine protesters at Elysian Park, outside the Dodger Stadium vaccination mass center in Los Angeles, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. A federal judge has thrown out California's new 30-foot buffer zone designed to restrict protests at coronavirus vacation sites. But U.S. District Judge Dale Drozd's ruling Saturday, Oct. ...

For now, students and staff must still follow their school's mask policy despite legislation passed in the early Saturday. Tennessee lawmakers significantly rolled back COVID-19 restrictions during the late-night finale of last week's special session, including blocking government entities, including public schools, from requiring masks in all but the most dire circumstances or proof of COVID...

transcript Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Texas Abortion Ban The Supreme Court considered two challenges to the state’s restrictive abortion law, from abortion providers and from the federal government. The law bars most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and incentivizes enforcement by private citizens. “In enacting Senate Bill 8, the Texas Legislature not only deliberately prohibited ...