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Good news! An attorney, Sheryl Ring, sought a declaration that Illinois’ legal ethics rules bar discrimination based on gender identity. And guess what? She was successful! WE WON. Today the @illinoiscourts ARDC stipulated that anti-trans discrimination that violates Bostock also violates the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct governing attorneys. As of today anti-trans discrimination i...

Hastings' new law will provide financial relief to working families  Illinois Senate Democratic

LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Employer defense law firm Hudock Employment Law Group announced today that litigator Eliza Landon Oliver has been selected as an honoree in a Los Angeles Business Journal special supplement recognizing the city's most influential women attorneys. The "Women of Influence: Attorneys" list recognizes women lawyers "for exceptional legal skill and achie...

Wells Fargo is among many financial institutions that have made climate change part of their business model. The state legislature passed a bill that seeks to punish banks that refuse to finance fossil fuel companies. SB 262, which takes effect in June, will enable the state treasurer to block West Virginia from doing business with financial institutions that boycott fossil fuels. The treas...

Ohio judge again blocks abortion law that threatened clinics(WCJB) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge has blocked early enforcement of an Ohio abortion restriction that included additional licensing requirements challenged by the ACLU and Planned Parenthood as unnecessarily onerous. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Alison Hatheway’s ruling Friday blocked restrictions imposed on two southwest Ohi...

It is estimated that 27,000 children and teens are living with epilepsy in Florida, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. Now a new law is making it easier for these kids to go to school. Florida if one of 14 states who have versions of seizure safe school laws that allow kids to get the care they need for epilepsy. Having autism hasn’t kept 16-year-old Blake Moore from attending high school ...

It never hurts to at least ask, even when the answer is likely to confirm the Lakeland City Commission is being drawn into a brewing battle between hunters and landowners that could have ramifications statewide and beyond. The commission Monday unanimously agreed to solicit Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office for a formal opinion on whether state law has “expressly approved hunting...

Gov. Phil Murphy urges state lawmakers to pass a new package of gun-control bills during an event Tuesday at Saint Luke Baptist Church in Paterson. Speaking from the pulpit of a Paterson church, Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday renewed his call for state lawmakers to pass a package of bills to further tighten New Jersey’s already strict gun-control laws, a few months after the proposals stalled in...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a law Monday that will allow the state to move forward with plans to build a canal in Colorado to divert water out of the South Platte River because of fears about Colorado’s increased water use. Ricketts proposed the canal project to help protect Nebraska’s water rights as the population of Colorado’s Front Range increases, although Col...

The Toro Canyon Creek oil spill | Credit: California Fish and Wildlife Department With the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s Office still investigating who didn’t do what and when in connection with a 2020 oil spill that got into Montecito’s Toro Canyon Creek, the county supervisors just approved a $450,000 contract to hire the outside law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP t...