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CHIPPEWA FALLS (WQOW) -- An investigation into the Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District shows "no evidence" that the district violated Wisconsin's pupil discrimination law. A complaint filed by the ACLU back in June said "CFAUSD and its agents and employees have discriminated against students on the basis of race, sex and sexual orientation, by causing, encouraging, accepting and toler...

LAKE DELTON (WKOW) — In July 2016, United States Marine and Wisconsin Dells native Brandon Ketchum sought a fourth inpatient stay at a VA center. When he asked to be placed in a specific unit at the Iowa City VA, Ketchum, who'd served tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan, was told there were no beds available in that unit. A report from the facility said Ketchum stormed off before a doctor woul...

Homes along State Street on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in Hudson, N.Y. Hudson's Common Council passed legislation Tuesday that would require landlords in the city to provide 'good cause' for refusing to renew a lease. HUDSON – Tenants in this rapidly gentrifying city of 5,900 could have their leases automatically renewed after the Hudson Common Council voted to pass a "good cause" eviction law ...

Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) have sued to stop Texas from enforcing HB 20, a new law barring large social media companies from banning users or removing content based on the “viewpoint” of the user. The tech industry groups’ suit comes two weeks after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the bill, and it f...

On September 21, 2021, Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi signed into law an Act that raises the hourly minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50. Prior to this increase, the minimum wage in Puerto Rico had not been modified since 2009. The Act and its new base pay will enter into effect on January 1, 2022. The increase to the minimum wage, however, does not stop there. The Act also provides another...

A New York state man suspected in a July murder was released from custody under a new parole reform law signed last week by Gov. Kathy Hochul, police said. Joseph Rivera, 21, was charged with second-degree murder in the July 10 hatchet attack in Rochester that left Heather Majors, 47, with more than 30 stab wounds. She died two days later. The parolee was identified as a possible suspect in M...

CASES OF NOTE UPHILL BATTLE FOR RETAIL CANNABIS APPLICANTS Mederi, Inc. v. City of Salem, 488 Mass. 60 (2021) Summary: In Mederi, Inc. v. City of Salem, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court grappled with the uncharted territory surrounding the wide discretion afforded to municipalities under the Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act, which legalized the sale and recreational use of ca...

Though the COVID-19 pandemic — combined with a boom in application numbers — made this year’s cycle an unusually competitive one for students applying to medical and law schools, Cornell students successfully navigated the process and are headed to some of the country’s top professional schools this fall. Sukhmani Kaur ’21 knows exactly what she will specialize in at Harvard Law School. “My p...

Tobacco products photographed in 2016. (Joe Difazio for WBUR) Owners of Brookline gas stations and convenience stores filed a lawsuit against the town challenging the ban on selling tobacco products to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2000. The law, voted in by local officials in November 2020 and approved by state Attorney General Maura Healey this July, intends to gradually phase out legal tobacco...

Late Upstate law enforcement officers inducted into SC Law Enforcement Hall of Fame  FOX Carolina