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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Sen. Ted Cruz’s challenge to a federal election law limiting how candidates can recoup loans they make to their own campaigns has reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court on Thursday added Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate, et al. to its docket. If the justices a...

U.S. one-hundred dollar, ten-dollar, five-dollar and one-dollar banknotes are arranged for a photograph in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, April 23, 2020. The U.S. government is unable to use the Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act to collect unpaid wages owed to a foreign worker under the laws governing the H-1B visa program, the Second Circuit said Thursday. The FDCPA only applies to fund...

Two former Big Law attorneys in Chicago who overbilled for case work will begin serving their agreed-to suspensions next month, according to the Illinois Supreme Court. While working at Reed Smith, Alexandra Gerstetter “submitted false billing records totaling 86.4 hours, which resulted in one of the firm’s clients being overbilled by $40,176,” the court’s disciplinary commission said. The fi...

HOUSTON, Sept. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Law school deans, professors and other leaders from legal academia and the profession will convene for the 2021 Black Lawyers Matter Conference, "Building Inclusive Excellence in Legal Education and Employment" from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Central on Oct. 15. The event is being held by the University of Houston Law Center, SMU Dedman School of Law, and the Law...

UH Law Center to co-convene second annual Black Lawyers Matter Conference in partnership with LSAC and SMU Dedman School of Law  inForney.com

HOUSTON, Sept. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Law school deans, professors and other leaders from legal academia and the profession will convene for the 2021 Black Lawyers Matter Conference, "Building Inclusive Excellence in Legal Education and Employment" from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Central on Oct. 15. The event is being held by the University of Houston Law Center, SMU Dedman School of Law, and the Law...

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DES MOINES, Iowa – The Iowa State Patrol is leading Iowa’s statewide Traffic Fatality Reduction Task Force in an effort to reduce deaths on Iowa roadways. As part of that effort the Patrol will be conducting a special enforcement initiative geared toward reduction of distracted driving on Oct. 2-4. This time period is one of the most deadly in the state according to the past 10 years of crash...

Rep. Cori Bush was raped at a church camp as a teenager. A month later, she realized she was pregnant and sought out an abortion, she said at a hearing Thursday. “I knew it was a decision I needed to make for myself, so I did,” said the Missouri Democrat, who called it the hardest decision she ever made. “Today, I sit before you as that nurse, and as a pastor, activist, survivor, single mom, ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A judge has recused himself from a case challenging four new laws restricting access to abortion in Montana, a day before he was set to rule on whether to grant an injunction that would delay their implementation. Unless the new judge grants an injunction Thursday before midnight, the laws will go into effect, putting new limits on access to abortion in the state. The sta...