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Two men were arrested on Oct. 6 for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election. Cody Mattice, 28, of Brockport, New York, and James Phillip Mault, 29, also of Brockport, who now resides in Fayetteville, North Caroli...

A judge's gavel. A Maryland judge asked to take part in a community awareness panel as part of a police training program for recruits can participate but with limits. The judge asked whether it would be ethical to participate in a question-and-answer session “about police and community concerns,” Maryland’s Judicial Ethics Committee said in a Tuesday opinion. The “topics of police reform and ...

Anna Reutin is a first-generation law student, Japanese American, daughter of immigrant parents, and this year’s Minoru Yasui Fellow. She earned her BA in Political Science and East Asian Studies from McGill University and her MA in Political Science from Waseda University. Reutin experienced a diverse array of learning settings that contributed to her growth and success as a law student. As ...

PLATTE CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City man will not be charged after prosecutors said he killed two men over a load of firewood near Parkville earlier this year. A grand jury declined to indict the gunman because of Missouri’s ‘stand your ground law,’ according to the Platte County Prosecutor. “Missouri’s ‘stand your ground’ law means people do not have to retreat before using force to defend thems...

Town of Saugerties officials who say they’re just trying to find alternatives to the courts to deal with problem properties got another mouthful of opposition to a proposed property-maintenance law . . . ➜ Subscribe to keep reading. Already a subscriber?

Several D.C. law firms have been on the move this year to new — and, more significantly, smaller — homes. In the past three months alone, nine law firms have inked leases for a combined 540,000 square feet in D.C., with all but one of them relocating to new digs. More notably, many of these firms are downsizing, showing just how quickly the legal workforce has shifted during the Covid-19 pand...

The answer is, hopefully, no law school’s. Unless it’s one of those Boston Dynamics robot dogs. Those might be able to sneak out of one of the old Infilaw schools if they had the right financial aid package. Maybe George Mason if they’re the right cultural fit for that particular institution. But today’s blind item tip deals with a dean who reportedly compared the knowledge level of some of t...

Lev Parnas leaves the courthouse in New York on Oct. 12, 2021. | Seth Wenig/AP Photo By JOSH GERSTEIN 10/13/2021 08:02 AM EDT Updated: 10/13/2021 11:10 AM EDT Federal prosecutors on Wednesday described a "blatant" conspiracy by a business associate of former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani to violate laws banning foreign donations to U.S. campaigns. Lev Parnas, 49, is accused of...

Katherine Jensen of Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers. Courtesy photo Under Georgia law, a claimant must prove he or she sustained an injury arising out of and in the course of the employment to recover workers’ compensation benefits. The courts have construed a compensable “injury” under O.C.G.A. § 34-9-1(4) as “a discernible physical injury.”

California’s new CBD law is attracting attention from cannabis operators far beyond the Golden State. They have 3.2 trillion reasons to care. A legal change signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week opens the world’s fifth-largest economy – with an estimated $3.2 trillion gross state product – to makers of hemp-derived CBD products worldwide. It’s a change that is grabbing attention from...