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In Iowa, student athletes at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University would not be covered under the NLRA, according to a Sept. 29 NLRB memo. Above, the Hawkeyes play the Indiana Hoosiers on Sept. 4. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette) In 2014, several Northwestern football players shocked employment lawyers across the country by announcing they were seeking to unionize. The College Athle...

Washington, DC—Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) sent letters to two county sheriffs in Minnesota, urging them to investigate and consider filing charges against Butterfield Foods, headquartered in Butterfield, Minnesota, and a Jennie-O Turkey Store facility in Melrose for violating the state’s animal cruelty law. AWI contacted county sheriffs Jared Bergeman of Watonwan County (where ...

What’s the news: The AMA and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) led a coalition of 19 health care associations in filing an amicus brief that urges the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a district court’s injunction to stop a Texas law banning abortion at roughly six weeks from being enforced while the litigation moves forward. The Texas legislation, Sena...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper completes signing into law a major energy bill as several legislators and a Cooper aide applaud during an Executive Mansion ceremony in Raleigh, N.C. Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson) RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina signed a milestone energy bill into law Wednesday that aims to sharply reduce greenhouse gas ...

TAMPA, Fla. - Attorney General Ashley Moody will visit the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office today to make an announcement about a new national law enforcement recruitment plan. State officials have been on the recruiting trail this year, hoping to make a career in Florida law enforcement as appealing as possible for both new recruits and out-of-state candidates. Last month, Governor Ron D...

© Peter Bennetts © Peter Bennetts © Peter Bennetts © Peter Bennetts Save this picture!© Peter Bennetts Text description provided by the architects. Woods Bagot’s Deakin Law School Building introduces a sculptural and coiled learning environment to reconcile the university’s splintered Burwood Campus in Melbourne. Creating a beacon and gateway to the Elgar Road Precinct the building provides a...

The Columbus office of McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC has launched a program that will award a year’s worth of free legal services to Black-owned businesses. The program came out of work that the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based firm’s diversity, equity and inclusion committee completed “in response to everything that was going on last year,” said Jennifer Cygan, a business development strateg...

Amid a series of legal battles, a Senate Republican on Wednesday filed a proposal that would put into state law a ban on school districts requiring students to wear masks. The proposal (SB 452), filed by Sen. Keith Perry, R-Gainesville, also would bar cities and counties from requiring people to wear masks or undergo medical procedures or treatments. It came a day after the Florida Department...

Want to get this daily news briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up. WHAT WE’RE WATCHING A VERY PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS - Used to be, way back when, a deal was a deal was a deal. If you were an M&A lawyer, you were just as comfortable helping two banks get hitched as you were advising on the acquisition of a life sciences company. But these days, there are all these fancy-pants “specialis...

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