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Jake Berman, a Jewish former student, speaks at a school board meeting in Southlake, Texas on October 18, 2021. (Screenshot) JTA — Jews in the Texas school district where an administrator told teachers that a new state law meant they should include “opposing” views of the Holocaust in their classrooms are speaking out against her statement and the law that prompted it. “The facts are that the...

Man fingers setting cost button on minimum position. Concept image for illustration of cost management. (October 13 – 20, 2021) Governor Whitmer and and Democrats want it. The Republicans and GOP controlled legislature doesn’t. Recently, the governor issued an executive order to reinstate Michigan’s Prevailing Wage Law, saying workers will earn a fair wage as the law will ensure union wage ra...

Nebraska Brand Committee Logo. Continuing implementation of Nebraska Legislative Bill 572 will include the waivable citations for statute violations which becomes effective November 1, 2021. The citations will be used for several situations including sale, slaughter or disposal of a live animal or carcass without inspections; transportation of live animals without proper documentation inside ...

Jesse Harvey didn’t have any patience for elected officials, the state bureaucracy, or anyone else who didn’t put saving lives absolutely first. A year after his own death — from a drug overdose, one of so many in the last 12 months — there is hope that his message is being heard. On Monday, a new state law went into effect decriminalizing possession of hypodermic needles, ending a prohibitio...

Across the globe, concerns continue regarding cryptocurrencies and digital currency exchanges. In the October edition of our Privacy and Security Roundup, we dive into the latest details surrounding OFAC's efforts to stifle ransomware attacks, how organizations should carefully assess the new Personal Information Protection Law in China, the new EU Standard Contractual Clauses requirement eff...

Major higher education groups are pressing for changes to a new federal law regulating veterans’ educational benefits that they say puts colleges at risk of losing access to GI Bill benefits if they pay professional recruiters commissions to find international students and convince them to enroll at the colleges. The Thrive Act, signed into law in June, threatens to cut off GI Bill funding fo...

After a woman reportedly took a dog she found to the shelter, a man called her and “made nasty comments and sent rude text messages.” She wanted the Kalispell Police Department to call her to find out what information he might get about her from the shelter and learn what her options were in how to move forward with the harassment. A neighborhood busybody was suspicious of youths who parked i...

'100 Years After the 19th Amendment: Their Legacy, Our Future' on display through Oct. 31 The H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library at Penn State Law in University Park is hosting the American Bar Association (ABA) and Law Library of Congress traveling exhibit, “100 Years After the 19th Amendment: Their Legacy, Our Future.” The exhibit is on display Oct. 17–31, 2021. Credit: Penn State Law. All...

Column: Winning the voting law debate  Quad City Times

A man who was fatally shot by police following a pursuit from Banning to Palm Springs on Thursday, Oct. 14, was identified as an Idyllwild man Tuesday, Oct. 19. Russell Leggett, 30, shot at a Banning police officer at a traffic stop on State Route 243 Thursday morning, disabling the officer’s vehicle, according to Sgt. Albert Martinez of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Leggett then...