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The health secretary is facing legal action over the Immensa testing fiasco, in which about 43,000 people have been given false negative Covid results since September. The Good Law Project has sent a pre-action letter to Sajid Javid seeking answers over the scandal, which some experts believe has contributed to a rise in coronavirus cases in south-west England. The project, led by Jo Maugham ...

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Good morning, Portland! Here's hoping your Halloween candy hangover won't linger too long into this gray, drizzly Monda...

In this episode of On Record PR, Sarah Larson, EVP at Furia Rubel Communications, goes on record with Antoinette Hubbard, diversity and inclusion director at the national law firm Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC and a senior member of the firm’s Delaware Asbestos Litigation Team. Sarah and Antonette discuss advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession,...

2021 saw crucial shifts in the legal industry as longer-term implications of the global pandemic presented new challenges, market shifts rooted in the changing dynamics of the workforce commanded center stage, and the priorities of the Biden administration started to take shape. What do these changes portend for 2022? Our legal analysts provide data-rich, actionable perspectives on key issues...

Police officers stand by security barricades set up outside the US Supreme Court ahead of legal challenges to a restrictive abortion law passed by Texas (AFP/Drew Angerer) The conservative-majority US Supreme Court hears challenges on Monday to the most restrictive law passed since abortion was made a constitutional right nearly 50 years ago -- a Texas bill that bans a woman from terminating ...

Update (12:15 PM)- This Sunday, We're Hosting! Pitt will host an ACC Quarterfinal matchup at 4 PM. Tickets are on sale now : https://t.co/xx3bXn1rV1#H2P pic.twitter.com/VQAGodIkSB — Pitt Men's Soccer (@Pitt_MSOC) November 1, 2021 Update (12:09 PM)- …and two more chances to see us at home this weekend! (Public) https://t.co/uXRnBMh4RS(Students) https://t.co/QWQTMgDNVJ#H2P pic.twitter.co...

The Supreme Court will face a bramble of unsettled legal questions when it reviews Texas's most-restrictive-in-the-nation abortion law Monday, but the inquiry itself is evidence of a changed court whose view of abortion as a constitutional right is in doubt. RELATED READING: Supreme Court takes up Texas law banning most abortions The Supreme Court will face a bramble of unsettled legal questi...

On Wednesday, October 27, 2021, in a vote of 64-52 the Illinois House passed an amendment to the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act (Act) that would allow employers to enforce work rules and policies relating to COVID-19 vaccinations and testing and prevent individuals from using the Act to challenge COVID-19 rules and policies. The bill, SB 1169, was narrowly passed by the Senate o...

Sotomayor has emerged as the most vocal critic of the Texas abortion law Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times/Bloomberg/Getty Images) Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor has emerged as the most vocal critic of the law, and has been especially critical that her colleagues have so far allowed it to remain...

Rep. John Katko wants New York judges to have more authority to hold suspects on bail at places like the Onondaga County Justice Center jail in Syracuse. David Lassman / The Post-Standard Rep. John Katko plans to introduce a bill today aimed at countering New York’s bail reform law by allowing judges to consider the danger of releasing repeat offenders charged with violent crimes. Katko’s bil...