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(Reuters) - A Vermont law school can permanently conceal two murals that depict Black people in a way that members of the law school community consider racist, despite the artist's objections that doing so would violate his rights under a rarely litigated law, a Vermont federal court has said. U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford ruled on Wednesday that Vermont Law School's plan to permanent...

Image from Shutterstock. The former director of advocacy at the Mississippi College School of Law claims in a recent federal court filing she was constructively terminated from the position, partially because of what she said about job security for non-tenure track faculty during an ABA site evaluation. Victoria Lowery Leech, who is white, also claims the law school was obligated to offer her...

Despite pleas from frightened residents of a Derby housing tract, Sedgwick County on Thursday delayed pulling the trigger on a proposed law to outlaw shooting bullets that land on neighbors’ properties. On a 3-2 split, commissioners voted to wait until Nov. 3 to decide whether to enact the resolution that would establish a $500 fine for unsafe shooting that affects people who live in the line...

REUTERS/Andrew Kelly (Reuters) - Could hiring lawyers before they even enroll in law school be part of the next wave of law firm diversity efforts? Two Ohio firms are giving it a try, partnering with the University of Dayton School of Law to recruit J.D. students with a promise of tuition and living expenses, mentoring, and a full-time job once they graduate. Thompson Hine and Taft Stettinius...

KIMBERLING CITY, Mo.- Kimberling City Mayor Bob Fritz has named Todd Lemoine as the new police chief pending board of alderman approval. According to the city, Lemoine will start his new role on November 8. “Our selection committee was challenged with several qualified candidates for the police chief position. Mr. Lemoine always rose to the top finalists during the interview process. He is br...

WASHINGTON — Texas’ attorney general urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to leave the state’s restrictive abortion law in place, saying that the federal government was not entitled to challenge it. If the justices are nonetheless inclined to hear the Justice Department’s request that they block the law while legal challenges proceed, wrote Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, they should...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Jud Mathews, professor of law at Penn State Law in University Park, presented at an international conference this fall organized by the Center for Constitutional Studies (CCS), a research center created by Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, SCJN). The virtual conference brought together around 20,000 legal scholars and students fr...

After being in talks for nearly a year, the highly anticipated “L.A. Law” revival officially received a pilot order by ABC in October 2021. The original drama series was created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher and produced by David E. Kelley. It aired on NBC for eight seasons between September 1986 and May 1994 and then returned for a reunion movie in 2002. The new pilot will be writ...

Supreme Court in Washington. WASHINGTON — Questioning whether a “right to abortion exists” in this country, Texas state lawyers urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the Biden administration’s plea to suspend a new state law that makes it illegal for doctors to perform abortions after about six weeks of a pregnancy. In a filing with the court, they said the federal government has n...

KIMBERLING CITY, Mo.- Kimberling City Mayor Bob Fritz has named Todd Lemoine as the new police chief pending board of alderman approval. According to the city, Lemoine will start his new role on November 8. “Our selection committee was challenged with several qualified candidates for the police chief position. Mr. Lemoine always rose to the top finalists during the interview process. He is br...