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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a border security briefing with sheriffs on July 10, 2021, in Austin, Texas. A Morning Consult/Politico poll found that 53 percent of registered voters support a new Texas law preventing social media companies from banning Texans for their political viewpoints. (Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill this month preventing socia...

ATLANTA — The Carter family is mourning the death of a beloved member of the family. The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library tweeted Tuesday that the former president’s daughter-in-law passed away. Annette Carter was married to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s son, Jeff. “Our thoughts are with Jeff and their children and the entire Carter family,” the presidential library said. Jeff and Annette were...

Employers with California employees, multi-state arbitration agreements, or remote workers in California may want to reconsider the use of mandatory arbitration agreements after the Ninth Circuit recently published its long-awaited decision in Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. et al. v. Bonta et al. In the ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction that had prevented enf...

A Tigray child. Illustrated | REUTERS, iStock The Tigray region in Ethiopia is suffering the worst famine in the world, and conditions look likely to deteriorate even further soon. Many hundreds of thousands of people are starving — how many is not clear exactly, because the government has refused all access to the province to international monitors. At a time when a robust international syst...

A full panel of federal appeals court judges Tuesday heard arguments in the high-profile fight over the state's anti-boycott law, with the judges frequently asking questions about the law's use of the term "boycott" during the hearing. The legal dispute is over a 2017 Arkansas law, Act 710, that added a pledge to not boycott Israel as a part of vendor contracts with the state of $1,000 or mor...

A full panel of federal appeals court judges Tuesday heard arguments in the high-profile fight over the state's anti-boycott law, with the judges frequently asking questions about the law's use of the term "boycott" during the hearing. The legal dispute is over a 2017 Arkansas law, Act 710, that added a pledge to not boycott Israel as a part of vendor contracts with the state of $1,000 or mor...

By the end of the year Texas may have even more restrictions on the ability to get an abortion after its Republican governor Greg Abbott quietly signed into law new restrictions banning the mail order provision of abortion medication seven weeks into pregnancy. The law prevents providers from prescribing abortion-inducing drugs more than seven weeks into pregnancy, instead of ten weeks, the c...

Judy Smith, co-founder, Smith & Company. Courtesy photo It’s no Scandal: Judy Smith will be the keynote speaker on Wednesday, February 2, at ALM’s Legalweek conference in-person in New York City. Smith, the co-founder of strategic advisory firm Smith & Company will be speaking in the keynote session titled “Leading Through Crisis: What Every Leader Should Know.” Smith is perhaps best ...

An aerial photo of a palm oil plantation in Batanghari, Jambi province, Sumatra island, Indonesia November 28, 2018. Antara Foto/Wahdi Septiawan/via REUTERS JAKARTA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Indonesia will use existing laws in a jobs creation bill passed last year to deal with issues around sustainable palm oil production, a senior official said on Wednesday, after a moratorium on new plantation p...

European Union and Polish flags flutter in Mazeikiai, Lithuania April 5, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo WARSAW, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Poland's Constitutional Tribunal could rule on Wednesday on whether the country's constitution or European Union treaties take precedence, a key judgement which an EU commissioner said was holding up the release of EU funds to Warsaw. Poland is involved in...