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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Portnoy Law Firm advises investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook" or "the Company") (NASDAQ : FB) investors that acquired securities between November 3, 2016 and October 4, 2021. Investors are encouraged to contact attorney Lesley F. Portnoy, to determine eligibility to participate in this a...

Alongside top leaders and scientists from around the world, Vermont Law School students will be supporting a small island nation at the 2021 U.N Climate Change Conference starting Sunday in Scotland. Professor Sarah Reiter, who teaches the service learning class that serves as the law school's delegation, said her students will be supporting their client from the Seychelles, which lies nort...

LUBBOCK, Texas — Defense lawyers took Lubbock County Commissioners to task Friday morning for a new computer system that, in their words, does not work. Its failure to work is, according to the lawyers, so bad that it actually violates the basic constitutional rights of local citizens and costs taxpayers extra money for defendants to unnecessarily stay in jail. The attorneys also said it inte...

Osceola County Sheriff’s Office is offering sign-on bonuses for dispatchers FILE - In this March 15, 2018, file photo, a dispatcher works at a desk station with a variety of screens used by those who take 911 emergency calls. Jobs with state and city governments are usually a source of stability in the U.S. economy, but the financial devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic has forced...

As we all know, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused us all to focus in different in directions. That has been the case here at Spilman as well. But as we wind down 2021, we wanted to reach back out to our clients and friends with construction industry news. What we have done is looked at trends in the construction industry via news articles. What is different is that we have selected those topic...

Dog Chained Up In Yard Getty It will soon be illegal for Texas dog owners to chain up their pets outside. On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbot signed the bill — passed during the state legislature's third special session of the year — after vetoing a previous version this summer. Under the new law, which goes into effect on Jan. 18, 2022, owners will be barred from tying up their dogs outside with cha...

SIDNEY — David M. Busick was officially appointed to the position of Sidney law director by Sidney City Council Monday evening, Oct. 26, with the adoption of legislation. The resolution ratifies the agreement the new law director signed the previous week. Busick will officially become the sixth person to hold that position in the city of Sidney. He is the current law director for the village ...

Credit: aumvector/Shutterstock.com With just over two months left in a whirlwind year that has stretched attorney workloads to the limit, firms are seizing opportunities to reward their lawyers. After Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison announced discretionary bonuses this week, other firm leaders are planning their own special rewards for those who have contributed most to meeting e...

Berkeley County High School building (WCIV) BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Law enforcement is investigating reports of a weapon near the Berkeley High School campus following multiple fights on Friday. Earlier in the afternoon, two fights took place on campus, officials say. These fights did not garner a large police response. At around 3 p.m., a third fight broke out, officials say. Almost s...

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Monday on Texas' controversial ban on abortions beyond six weeks of pregnancy after the high court expedited a hearing but declined to block the law's enforcement in the meantime. But while legal observers are fixated on what the court's decision might say about the conservative majority's intentions toward Roe v. Wade, the issue currently at ha...