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CARBONDALE, Ill. – A discussion on recent and pending constitutional decisions before the U.S. Supreme Court are a part of Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Constitution Day activities this week. The SIU School of Law will livestream the two-hour discussion beginning at 12:15 pm on Friday, Sept. 17. The topics will focus on myriad issues, including reproductive rights, immigrant right...

Texas wanted to be the tech haven of the U.S. Its new abortion bill and other measures are causing workers to rethink their moves. On Sept. 3, just two days after Texas banned abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, Vivek Bhaskaran, the chief executive of an Austin-based online survey software company, quickly assembled the handful of female employees that are based in the city. In ...

After ramming through thousands of pages of homework and hundreds of pages of writing assignments, often at the last minute – perhaps a little too often – college students and graduates may think they are at the top of their game. Law school, however, takes reading and writing to a whole new level. Compared with undergraduate texts, legal code and court opinions can seem written in an alien ...

Warm for a couple of days, then we see another chance for showers KTVZ BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officers have a person in custody in connection with four human-caused fires discovered by a resident and tackled at small sizes Sunday near Horse Butte, about nine miles southeast of Bend, officials said Monday. No other details were released about the suspect or pos...

A Ramsey County judge on Monday blocked a new law that changed the standards for use of force by peace officers in Minnesota. Leonardo Castro, the chief judge of the Second Judicial District, issued a temporary stay until a lawsuit, filed in protest by the state’s largest law enforcement groups, is settled. The old law will be used in the meantime. State Sen. Warren Limmer, R-Maple Grove, who...

Iowa school districts again have the power to enact mask mandates after a federal judge temporarily blocked a state law banning them from doing so. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pratt issued a temporary restraining order Monday stopping the enforcement of the mask mandate ban, siding with the parents of several students with disabilities. The parents argued their children were being denie...

The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or PRO, is a radical piece of legislation that would rewrite our nation’s labor laws in at least 51 different ways. Passed by the House earlier this year, the bill has 47 co-sponsors in the Senate, all Democrats. Unions and their allies aren’t waiting for more support. Instead, they are determined to change the National Labor Relations Act by insertin...

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s far-reaching assertion of executive authority to require Covid-19 vaccines for 100 million American workers relies on a set of complicated legal tools that will test the power — and the limits — of the federal government to compel personal health care decisions. To more aggressively confront the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Biden is pulling several levers of presid...

Last week, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas seeking a ruling that its unconstitutional abortion ban known as S.B. 8 “is invalid, null, and void.” DOJ further asks the federal district court to issue an order banning “all of [Texas’]s officers, employees, and agents, including private parties who woul...

Oregon School Boards Association leaders called for all school boards to follow the law. That call was prompted by a notable number of board members saying they will defy lawful orders, such as mask mandates and racial inclusion. Here, supporters and opponents of Albany Superintendent Melissa Goff hold signs as they await a school board vote. Mark Ylen of Mid-Valley MediaMark Ylen of Mid-Vall...