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<< Back Buckling up, effective Oct. 1 with Connecticut’s new seat-belt law, applies to all rear-seat passengers. All occupants of a vehicle, regardless of age, must now wear a seat belt. Most states already have rear-seat belt laws. Connecticut’s law had only required back-seat passengers 16 years old and up to wear a seat belt. More than 2,000 back-seat passengers without seat belts ...

States have been experimenting with a “Road User Charge” (RUC) for decades as a potential alternative to the gas tax, but those pilot programs have generally only tested flat per-mile fees that do not account for vehicle pollution, weight, size, or other factors the gas tax takes into account inherently because it takes more energy to move heavier, bigger, more polluting vehicles. Now Califor...

Billing is a big — nay, huge — part of working at a Biglaw firm. As an associate, your life is divided into tenths of an hour, and if you don’t meet your hourly requirements by year end, you can expect to be penalized accordingly. Everyone else may be getting enormous bonuses but not you. No, you’ll be lucky if you’re able to receive half as much as everyone else if you miss your billing mile...

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Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) joined Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) and colleagues in reintroducing bipartisan, bicameral legislation to provide state and local law enforcement with high-tech devices to detect and identify dangerous drugs, including fentanyl. The Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act would establish a new grant prog...

CRESTVIEW HILLS, Ky. — Thomas More University announced that the University has acquired 207 and 209 Thomas More Parkway, buildings currently occupied by Dressmen Benzinger LaVelle PSC (DBL Law). DBL Law has occupied its current office space in Crestview Hills since 1983. The firm broke ground on their new headquarters in Covington, Kentucky in September of 2020, where they will move this fal...

Mississippi head coach Lane Kiffin watches a replay during the second half of the team's NCAA college football game against Tulane on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi won 61-21. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) AP Editor’s note: This is the “Inside College Football with John Talty” newsletter. Talty will bring you weekly original insights into the SEC and other college footba...

Financial Crime Prosecutors say Rayshun Jackson laundered $400,000 for an undercover DEA agent he thought was a drug dealer. Prosecutors say Dallas lawyer Rayshun Jackson allegedly agreed to launder 'dope money' for a 5% cut. A Dallas lawyer pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money for someone he believed was a drug dealer — but who was actually an undercover drug enforcement agen...

The Constitutional Tribunal has adjourned its sitting regarding the supremacy of the Polish constitution over EU law, until October 7. The announcement was made on Thursday afternoon by Constitutional Tribunal President Julia Przylebska. The Constitutional Tribunal was due to issue a ruling twice before. During its August 31 session the case was postponed until September 22 after a motion was...

Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images) The world’s top human rights legal body just offered a crucial show of support for Steven Donziger, the attorney who won a landmark multibillion-dollar case against an oil giant over pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. The ruling came on the eve of his sentencing in a criminal trial. On Wednesday, the United Nations High Commissioner on Hum...