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On October 5, 2021, California Governor Newsom signed SB 343, addressing recyclability claims on products and in advertising. The Act amends existing sections of California’s Business and Professions Code as well as the Public Resource Code relating to environmental advertising. These laws collectively provide California’s version of recyclability consumer protection laws, similar to but goin...

In California, many products will soon need to meet a 60% recycling rate to be considered “recyclable.” | Donald Walker / Shutterstock Electronics manufacturers may be barred from telling consumers about certain device take-back programs in California, under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law this month. Newsom on Oct. 5 signed Senate Bill 343, describing it as an effort to “to combat p...

On October 12, 2021, the Dutch Senate approved the Paid Parental Leave Act (in Dutch: Wet betaald ouderschapsverlof, the "Act"), which will enter into force on August 2, 2022. The purpose of the Act is to offer working parents more opportunities to better divide work and care responsibilities. By doing so, the Act aims to promote equality between men and women and to create a better work-life...

On Labor Day, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law an amendment to New York Labor Law that holds prime and general construction contractors jointly and severally liable for unpaid wages, benefits, and wage supplements owed by a subcontractor at any tier to the subcontractor’s employees. In addition to liability for unpaid wages, benefits and wage supplements, the upstream contractor may be l...

WASHINGTON – The Consider Teachers Act aimed at fixing a broken system burdening teachers with unfair loans, was signed into law Wednesday. The Consider Teachers Act, a bipartisan bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Mike Braun, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Senator Tina Smith, Senator Raphael Warnock, and Senator John Cornyn, and in the House by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Cong...

A judge's gavel is pictured. Five tables on a street in Queens, N.Y., weren’t a “place of religious worship” protected by the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, the Second Circuit said Thursday. FACEA makes it illegal to intentionally interfere with a person exercising their religion at a place of religious worship, the opinion by Judge Susan L. Carney said. A place of religious worsh...

Much of the new energy law focuses on multi-year ratemaking, a change that has clear benefits for Duke Energy’s shareholders but will likely mean higher costs for consumers. Why the onus is now on the state Utilities Commission to protect ratepayers and the environment North Carolina’s electricity sector is undergoing a generational change. Duke Energy will retire most of its remaining coal-f...

Netzer Law Firm files suit against state on HB 702  KPVI News 6

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Law enforcement is in a standoff with a person barricaded in a home after a Thursday morning pursuit. The pursuit went through several parts of Bowling Green before ending at a home on Ewing Ford Road. The suspect then ran into a home. Warren County Sheriff’s Office and Kentucky State Police are on scene. This is a developing story. Copyright 2021 WBKO. All rights...

Fall 2021 | Graduate Seminar Speaker Series Join the International & Graduate Program for a guest speaker series that meets on Mondays throughout the fall semester. Dates and speaker details are below. August 30 | Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim Working with the United Nations in conflict and post conflict environments in the field of Rule of Law Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim is an Islamic Law Expert in Depar...