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A proposed law named for a Shaker Heights woman who lost her life to domestic violence was approved by a House committee on Thursday. Aisha’s Law was passed out of the House Criminal Justice Committee after receiving even more testimony on its importance, and despite arguments against it by a criminal defense association. The bill was named after Aisha Fraser, who was killed by the father of ...

Jake May/AP What To Know Today Successes, implementation challenges greet Colorado’s red flag law. The state’s emergency risk protection order statute lets family members or law enforcement petition a court to temporarily remove guns from a person deemed a threat to themselves or others. The law went into effect on January 1, 2020, and researchers from the University of Colorado and...

The “Pillar of Shame” sculpture at Hong Kong University commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Photo: Chan Long Hei/Bloomberg Lawyers are famously loath to talk politics – publicly, anyway; the stakes are too high, the risks too great. In today’s profoundly politicised world, nothing ends a friendship quite like divergent party politics. And the last thing any lawyer with a 2,000-b...

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In the late 1980s, law school groups for gay and lesbian students met off campus in case members didn’t want the school community to know their sexual orientation, says Joan Howarth, who started her teaching career in 1989 as a visiting professor at the University of California at Davis School of Law. And there were so few female faculty at law schools, if two or more were seen together talki...

Reading the Oct. 14, 2021, issue of The Transylvania Times there was an article on an 18-year-old student being arrested for having a gun and knife on school grounds. He now has a felony charge against him and possibly ruined his high school career. Shame on him. He knew the rules and regulations about having weapons on educational property. At the same time, we have Madison Cawthorn, U.S. Re...

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney Rhett DeHart announced today that a press conference will be held tomorrow, October 26, 2021, at 10 a.m., at the Myrtle Beach Police Department Annex at 3340 Mustang Street in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29577. Represented at the press conference will be the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina and representa...

The Ulster Town Hall is on Town Hall Drive in Lake Katrine, N.Y. LAKE KATRINE, N.Y. — The Town Board is being encouraged to participate in a state law that will allow retail marijuana sales and the opening of cannabis lounges. The comments were made by four speakers during a public hearing Thursday, Oct. 21. There were no requests for officials to opt out of the pending regulations. “I believ...

Seized bitcoin is up for sale in Germany. An online auction of seized bitcoin that was initially priced at a discount spurred a frenzy in Germany, according to reports. The minimum bid was set at 42,400 euros ($49,197), below bitcoin's recent price above $63,000. Prosecutors in Germany are required to put seized items such as bitcoin up for auction. German prosecutors reportedly held an a...

Welcome to the latest installment of Law Admissions Q&A, a feature that provides law school admissions advice to readers who send in inquiries. If you have a question about law school admissions, email us for a chance to be featured in a future post. Q: How do you feel about conditional scholarships? Do you think they are predatory and misleading? - SA While conditional scholarships are ...