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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — State Supreme Court Justice Donna Siwek has ruled Ruthie’s Law “unlawful, unconstitutional and unenforceable.” The law, which also bears the name “Erie County Local Law 2-2017,” was approved by Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz in July 2017. It was enacted to deliver protections for residents of nursing homes who may be the victims of abuse. It was named after Ruth M...

CNN anchor Poppy Harlow recently took a leave of absence from the network to attend a one-year master’s degree program for nonlawyers at Yale Law School. By drawing attention to Yale’s M.S.L. program, Ms. Harlow helps shed light on the absurdity of the legal profession’s time-consuming and expensive requirements to be licensed as a lawyer, which primarily serve to raise lawyers’ earnings and ...

In this article A DoorDash sign is pictured on a restaurant on the day they hold their IPO in New York, December 9, 2020. Carlo Allegri | Reuters DoorDash filed a lawsuit Wednesday against New York City over a new law that requires delivery companies to share more customer data with their restaurants. The City Council approved a bill earlier this summer that delivery companies have to provi...

In January 2020, a 14-year-old girl was reported missing from her home in Missouri and classified as a runaway by local police. Her phone had been wiped of data and left behind, leaving few clues about her whereabouts. Several hundred miles away in Fayetteville, Ark., a local prosecutor named Kevin Metcalf heard about the teenager through his professional network and suspected she might have ...

SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images A new Texas law that imposes new restrictions on voting could greatly impede students at the polls and limit their ability to register to vote or organize get-out-the-vote activities on campus or off. Senate Bill 1 is a sweeping piece of legislation that will ban 24-hour and drive-through voting, create new vote-by-mail ID mandates and empower partisan po...

An oilfield worker walks next to drilling rigs at an oil well operated by Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, in the oil rich Orinoco belt, April 16, 2015.. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins -/File Photo CARACAS, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Venezuela's National Assembly, controlled by allies of socialist President Nicolas Maduro, will not reform the OPEC country's key hydrocarbons law this year, the pre...

Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed one of the nation’s most ambitious state-level clean energy plans into law on Wednesday. “​​After years of debate and discussion, science has prevailed, and we are charting a new future that works to mitigate the impacts of climate change here in Illinois,” Pritzker said in a statement. The Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, or...

Jonathan F. Mitchell grew increasingly dismayed as he read the Supreme Court’s decision in June 2016 striking down major portions of a Texas anti-abortion bill he had helped write. Not only had the court gutted the legislation, which Mr. Mitchell had quietly worked on a few years earlier as the Texas state government’s top appeals court lawyer, but it also had called out his attempt to struct...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — “It was rushed through with lots of fanfare and very little teeth,” Erie County legislator minority leader Joe Lorigo said. Ruthie's Law was created to help protect senior citizens in nursing homes. The law is named after Ruth Murray, she was a resident at Emerald South Nursing Home in Buffalo. In 2016 she died after a fight with a resident. “It’s a shame that it’s gone...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A federal judge on Wednesday scheduled a hearing for Oct. 1 to consider temporarily blocking Texas’ near-total abortion ban, following an emergency request from the Biden administration. The Justice Department requested the temporary restraining order late Tuesday as part of its lawsui...