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At the end of Law & Order:SVU on Thursday, Olivia Benson ran into her old NYPD partner Elliot Stabler on the street in Manhattan. She was accompanied by her young son, Noah, who met Stabler for the first time. Fans who love the case-of-the-week aspect of the show likely saw the scene as unnecessary. Fans who desperately want Stabler and Benson to be a romantic couple likely saw the scene ...

On May 2, 2022, a bill “limiting certain provisions in restrictive covenants” was introduced in the New Jersey State Assembly. In recent years, similar bills have been proposed in various state legislatures. Some such bills, after much lobbying, haggling and revisions, have even been enacted into law, including, for example, in Massachusetts, Illinois and Washington. While it is unclear wheth...

Digital license plates are available now through a pilot program overseen by the Department of Motor Vehicles. They are offered in a couple of styles. (Courtesy of Reviver). Q. Hi Honk: At Fairview Road and South Coast Drive on the edge of Costa Mesa there was a temporary no U-turn sign in the median. The sign was posted by OC 405 Partners. There is a permanent sign allowing a U-turn posted b...

Welcome to the May 2022 edition of the Political Law Playbook. Of particular note in this month’s edition is a slew of impactful stories involving the Federal Election Commission (FEC). As we previously wrote about in Dentons' Soapbox blog, the FEC recently made news when four of its commissioners issued guidance that effectively requires Super PACs to comply with the LLC attribution reportin...

Students from Columbia Law's Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic (ECDC) provided contract guidance to current participants in the CU Grow Vendor Development Program during a pop-up clinic on April 14th. The legal pop-up clinic, which provided assistance in strategizing, negotiating, drafting, and reviewing contracts and agreements, is a newly added component to the CU Grow progr...

A Lawrenceville man is accused of shooting and killing his wife before being confronted by his step-daughter and her husband, leading to an exchange of gunfire that fatally wounded his son-in-law. Bernie Mack, 61, was arrested Thursday in the shooting deaths of his wife, 61-year-old Bridget Mack, and 36-year-old Jeremy Santos, according to Gwinnett County police. He is facing one count of mal...

Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev (Getty Images) There was a short time in 2021 when Facebook blocked all Australian users from sharing news across their feeds. The drastic change came in response to a proposed law from the country’s authorities that would strongarm the social media company into paying for news content. Even at the time, people in Australia and abroad noticed that the content being b...

The osprey couple enjoy a meal on their perch above the UO School of Law. (Image: Theodore Barrington) An Osprey couple has returned to a nest on top of the University of Oregon School of Law, and three baby ospreys are on the way. Scientific Name: Pandion haliaetus The maximum life span of osprey in the wild is estimated at 25 years. About 98 percent of an osprey’s diet is comprised of fish...

An appellate court temporarily reinstated portions of a Florida election law deemed unconstitutional by a lower court. In March, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark Walker found parts of a 2021 state law to be unconstitutional. The state of Florida last month appealed that ruling, which struck down parts of the law including a prohibition on engaging voters in line at polls. A three-judge pa...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Law enforcement will be targeting speeders in the Interstate 64 work zone west of the Nitro-St. Albans Bridge during the week of May 9 through May 13. The work zone, which runs from the bridge to the US 35 interchange of I-64, will have a speed limit of 55 mph. Police will be teaming up with the West Virginia Department of Transportation, ticketing speeders in work zones t...