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Bringing the law into the 21st century, the New York legislature has updated the state’s telemarketing statute to add text messaging. Joint bills in the Senate and Assembly modified Section 399-z of the General Business Law to include the term “electronic messaging text” to multiple definitions in the statute, such as “telemarketer,” “telemarketing” and “telemarketing sales calls.” The amende...

(Reuters) - Three law firms — Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Latham & Watkins and Schiff Hardin — are heading General Electric Co’s plans to purchase ultrasound systems maker BK Medical for $1.45 billion in cash from Altaris Capital Partners. The acquisition of Boston and Copenhagen-based BK Medical, announced on Thursday, is GE’s largest since Larry Culp became CEO in 2018. GE has tapped a...

Animation by Hyeon Jin Kim/ALM It’s been over a year since COVID-19 forced law firms to quickly move out of their offices, and firms have taken a broad spectrum of approaches when it comes to getting people back at their desks. Some rolled personnel back in over the summer in 2020, while others remain entirely remote, or as close to it as possible. With the vaccine rollout in full swing, stil...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine,May 20, 2019. (U.S. Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine/Flickr) (JTA) — Ukraine’s parliament has passed a law stating that “antisemitism and its manifestations are banned” in that country. The law, which passed on Wednesday thanks to a majority of 283 lawmakers out of 450, is unusual in that it also proscribes antisemitic sentimen...

New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - September 23, 2021) - The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws. Class Period: August 4, 2016 and July 27, 2021 Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 4, 2021 No obligation or cost to you. Learn more ...

New law cited in decision to end needle exchange program  Huntington Herald Dispatch

NOPD Chief of Detectives Paul Noel is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Gary Hayes Award from the Police Executive Research Forum (P.E.R.F.). The annual award is given to a mid-career law enforcement officer in a departmental leadership position who demonstrates imagination, creativity, resourcefulness, and initiative in the design or implementation of new approaches to policing. Noel has...

A University of Southern California law professor told Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that his home state's voter ID law is racist during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing Wednesday. At the “Restoring the Voting Rights Act: Combating Discriminatory Abuses,” hearing, Cruz asked Franita Tolson and the other panel witnesses, "in your judgment are voter ID laws racist?" "It depends. One thing we ...

In this edition, host Jonathan Amarilio and co-host Kernisha Padilla are joined by Dean Hari Osofsky of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea of DePaul University College of Law for a roundtable discussion about the current state of legal education. The group discusses many hot button topics, including the pandemic’s impact on legal education, law school enrollmen...

Editor’s Note: This analysis is part of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, which is a partnership between Economic Studies at Brookings and the University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. The Initiative aims to inform the national health care debate with rigorous, evidence-based analysis leading to practical recommendations usin...