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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, Voters occupy booths at St. Maria Goretti Church, where five voting precincts are located, as polls open for Election Day in New Orleans. After a five-week postponement, early voting begins ... A Virginia Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday claiming the Fairfax County Office of Elections had wrongly accepted absentee ballot applicati...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The University of Florida is prohibiting three professors from providing expert testimony in a lawsuit challenging a new law that critics claim restricts voting rights, saying it goes against the school's interest by conflicting with the administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Though the decision is being criticized as threat to academic freedom and free speech, the univ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Incomplete demographic information that Nevada prison officials provided lawmakers preparing to redraw the state's political maps is prompting questions and frustration two years after the Legislature passed a law to count incarcerated residents in their home communities during the once-in-a-decade redistricting process. The data gap suggests Nevada's efforts to end so-ca...

Missouri law puts requirement on sellers to collect use taxes  Joplin Globe

Jackson Lewis Law Firm Logo Under a new New York City law (Int. 2397-2021-A), hotels with at least 100 rooms must pay weekly severance of $500 per employee per week to laid-off employees for up to 30 weeks if their hotel either (1) experienced a mass layoff of 75% or more of their workforce employed as of March 1, 2020, during any 30 day period or (2) closed to the public on or after March 1,...

Special to Iredell Free News Mitchell Community College Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) program is now more accessible than ever thanks to local scholarship covering the student fee. Mitchell’s BLET program – regardless of class type – costs $680, one of the lowest overall in the region. Students sponsored by a law enforcement agency qualify for a registration fee waiver ($180 value). N...

The University of Florida campus is shown. | Wikimedia Florida blocks professors from testifying against voting law pushed by DeSantis By GARY FINEOUT and MARC CAPUTO 10/30/2021 11:42 AM EDT TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s flagship university is blocking three professors from providing expert testimony to groups challenging the state’s contentious new voting law, a marked turnabout that c...

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed a $32 million investment in law enforcement across the state with the goal of improving retention, recruitment, training and solving violent crime. “Right now, the job is extremely difficult," said Ken Grabowski, legislative director of the Police Officers Association of Michigan. "Very few people want it, and anybody that has it wants to get ou...

A regional look at Oklahoma's failure to protect law  Norman Transcript

FILE - In this July 11, 2018, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to Ely State Prison, the location of Nevada's execution chamber near Ely, Nev. Two years after banning a practice known as prison gerrymandering, Nevada will count almost half of its prison population in districts where they're incarcerated, rather than at their previous addresses. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) CARSON CITY, Ne...