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Getty ImagesDavid Simon said he "can't and won't ask female cast/crew to forgo civil liberties to film" in Texas David Simon, who created the Emmy-nominated US crime series The Wire, has said he will not film his forthcoming show in Texas, due to a new law there restricting access to abortions. The new law bans abortion from as early as six weeks into pregnancy. "As an employer, this is beyon...

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8 (SB 8) into law in May, I felt an unwelcome sense of déjà vu. In January of 2016, I was dialing every phone number I could find, trying to locate a clinic where I could receive abortion care in Austin, where I live. After many phone calls, some of which I accidentally made to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, I finally found one of the la...

Graduates from GW Law have filled the highly-competitive clerkships in four of the past five years. GW Law grads Whitney Hermandorfer (l) and David Fox on the steps of the Supreme Court, where they both have clerked for justices. By Menachem Wecker David Fox was riding a courthouse elevator with local counsel and a client when Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer called offering a clerkship. ...

HOUSTON — A man in Arkansas and another in Illinois on Monday filed what appeared to be the first legal actions under a strict new abortion law in Texas that is enforced by ordinary citizens, regardless of where they live. The Arkansas man, Oscar Stilley, who was described in the complaint as a “disbarred and disgraced” lawyer, said in an interview that he had filed the lawsuit against a Texa...

Britain has warned some Hong Kong critics in the UK about travelling abroad, according to high-profile human rights advocate Bill Browder, highlighting concerns about the cross-border reach of the Chinese region’s national security law. Browder, a well-known lobbyist for the use of sanctions against foreign governments involved in human rights abuses, said he was contacted by the UK Foreign O...

TUCSON (KVOA) - Oral arguments took place Wednesday in an abortion case that will determine whether a controversial bill becomes law next week in Arizona. Set to go into law Sept. 29, SB 1457 was passed on a party-line vote in the legislature and was signed by Gov. Doug Ducey in April. It bans women from getting an abortion solely on the basis of a fetal condition or genetic abnormality like ...

University Relations Third-year law student Tyler Mlaker has won first prize in the annual Law Student Writing Competition sponsored by the American Bar Association's Forum on Construction Law. Mlakar will receive a $2,000 cash prize, a one-year membership in the Forum and travel expenses and registration to attend the 2021 Forum Fall Meeting in Seattle, Washington, where he will also receive...

Font Size: Republican states with major democratic metropolitan centers forestall local efforts to reform election law. Shortly after the 2016 presidential election, I heard physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joke that Florida color-coded its cities because its 2016 presidential electoral map was deep red except for most of its bright blue cities. Like Florida, many so-called red states that voted...

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RICHMOND, Va. -- The "Marcus Alert" was created last year, named for Marcus David Peters who was shot and killed during an encounter with Richmond Police in 2018. The shooting was later ruled to be justified, but his family argued that he was in the middle of a mental health crisis and needed help. As part of the new law, new guidelines and training must be in place by the end of the year. Of...