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November 01, 2021

NH banking department issues alert for former Dargon Law clients - Concord Monitor

The New Hampshire Banking Department is telling nearly 100 customers owed money by shuttered Concord-based Dargon Law Firm LLC to reach out to a Massachusetts bankruptcy court. Daniel Dargon, who now goes by Drake David Dargon, Sr., started the firm on North State Street in 2008, after graduating from Franklin Pierce Law School. In 2010, the NH Banking Department ordered the firm to pay $129,...
November 01, 2021

Kettering attorney suspended from practicing law by Ohio Supreme Court - Dayton Daily News

The Ohio Supreme Court on Monday suspended a Kettering lawyer charged in several misdemeanor cases from practicing law. An interim remedial suspension was imposed against Aaron P. Hartley, the owner of Hartley Law Office in Kettering. The order says Hartley will be suspended until disciplinary proceedings are complete. “It is further ordered that (Hartley) immediately cease and desist from th...
November 01, 2021

National Law Journal Recognizes Ward, Smith & Hill in its Verdicts Hall of Fame - Tyler Morning Telegraph

National Law Journal Recognizes Ward, Smith & Hill in its Verdicts Hall of Fame  Tyler Morning Telegraph
November 01, 2021

A new California law aims to strengthen access to mental health services - MedCity News

The number of people with symptoms of depression and anxiety has nearly quadrupled during the covid pandemic, which has made it even more maddeningly difficult to get timely mental health care, even if you have good insurance. A California law signed Oct. 8 by Gov. Gavin Newsom could help. It requires that mental health and substance abuse patients be offered return appointments no more than ...
November 01, 2021

Supreme Court questions controversial Texas abortion law - The Reporter

FILE – The Supreme Court is seen at dusk in Washington, Oct. 22, 2021. The Supreme Court is taking up challenges to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second largest state after six weeks of pregnancy. The justices are hearing arguments Monday, Nov. 1, in two cases over whether abortion providers or the Justice Department can mount federal court challenges to the la...
November 01, 2021

Deputies: Scammers claim to be law enforcement, try to get people to pay arrest warrant fines - KLRT - FOX16.com

GARLAND COUNTY, Ark. – The Garland County Sheriff’s Office took to social media Monday to urge people to take notice of scammers claiming to be active law enforcement officers. According to investigators, scammers are able to ‘spoof’ local agencies ’ numbers on Caller ID. After answering, the scammers will then identify themselves as a local detective. Deputies said the scammer then claims th...
November 01, 2021

Deputies: Scammers claim to be law enforcement, try to get people to pay arrest warrant fines - KARK

GARLAND COUNTY, Ark. – The Garland County Sheriff’s Office took to social media Monday to urge people to take notice of scammers claiming to be active law enforcement officers. According to investigators, scammers are able to ‘spoof’ local agencies ’ numbers on Caller ID. After answering, the scammers will then identify themselves as a local detective. Deputies said the scammer then claims th...
November 01, 2021

Law profs defend theory that SPAC is illegal under Investment Company Act - Reuters

(Reuters) - There should be quite a wide audience for a brief filed last week by law professors John Morley of Yale University and Robert Jackson of New York University, opposing the dismissal of an investor's lawsuit against the blank-check company GO Acquisition Corp. After all, when Morley, Jackson and their co-counsel from Susman Godfrey, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann and RM L...
November 01, 2021

Texas Law Barring Israel Boycotts (BDS) Draws Lawsuit by State Contractor - Bloomberg

A Houston engineering firm is challenging a Texas law barring the state from doing business with companies participating in the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. A&R Engineering and Testing Inc. said in a complaint filed Friday in federal court in Houston that the 2017 law violates its First Amendment right to participate in econ...
November 01, 2021

Paid Family Leave in NY: New law will allow employees to care for siblings. How it will work - Democrat & Chronicle

New Yorkers can now take paid family leave to care for a sibling after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation into law Monday expanding the state’s already existing leave policies. New York passed a paid family leave package in 2016 with a plan to phase in, over several years, the percentage of regular wages employees would be eligible to receive on leave. The package is fully phased in this y...