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April 15, 2022

Orlando FreeFall: Florida lawmaker calls for 'loophole' in law to be closed after teenager died on ride - Fox News

Florida 911 calls released after teenager fell off ride: 'They didn't secure the seatbelt' 00:00 00:0006:41GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay A Florida lawmaker wants to remove what she calls a "loophole" in Florida law that did not require the Orlando FreeFall to display a "maximum weight" sign outside the ride. Tyre Sampson, 14, died after falling off of the Orland...
April 15, 2022

Harvard Law School Students and Alumni Advocate for Inflation-Adjusted Financial Support | News - Harvard Crimson

Harvard Law School's Langdell Hall is located at 1545 Massachusetts Avenue. More than a hundred Harvard Law School students and alumni signed onto a letter last week calling on the school to adjust its Low Income Protection Plan to rising inflation rates. The Low Income Protection Plan is a program that offers financial support to HLS graduates pursuing careers in public interest law. Rolled ...
April 15, 2022

New law aims to regulate 'Farm Use' placards - - CBS19 News

RICHMOND, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- A new law will be changing the regulations regarding vehicles with “Farm Use” placards. Governor Glenn Youngkin has signed House Bill 179 and Senate Bill 186, which create a formal process for farmers to get permanent farm use placards. According to a release, these placards have been an exemption that allowed farmers to use farm vehicles on state roadways with m...
April 15, 2022

Newton Falls nullifies deal, hires new law director - Warren Tribune Chronicle

NEWTON FALLS — A short-lived agreement to hire Robert Haydorn as Newton Falls law director was nullified Thursday during an emergency village council meeting. Council subsequently hired Brad Bryan to the position by a unanimous vote, according to Second Ward Councilman John Baryak. Haydorn, of Cuyahoga Falls, was hired Monday, likewise by a unanimous vote, to replace the previous law director...
April 15, 2022

Legal Aid of Arkansas Names School of Law Student Volunteer of the Year - University of Arkansas Newswire

Submitted Third-year law student Colton Langford has been recognized as the Law Student Volunteer of the Year by Legal Aid of Arkansas. He worked with the Economic Justice workgroup at Legal Aid from January to April of 2021 and also volunteered for their criminal record sealing clinic in October 2021. At Legal Aid, Langford participated in gender name change, legal advice and criminal record...
April 14, 2022

Goat wildfire-prevention potentially under threat from CA law - KRCR

Goats can eat poison oak and invasive species such star thistle and medusa head (KRCR) NORTHSTATE AREA, Calif. — In 2016, Assembly Bill 1066 (AB-1066) was championed by state legislators and groups like United Farm Workers (UFW) to give better working conditions for the "backbreaking work" that these workers perform. For decades, farmworkers were exempt from standard labor laws, such as lunch...
April 14, 2022

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto meets with local law enforcement to discuss community needs and announces funding - KOLO

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - On Thursday morning, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto met with leaders of our local law enforcement agencies at the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office to discuss and find solutions to some of the issues facing our region. One major issue discussed was mental health. “To actually, truly address mental health its not police officers that are going to fix this challenge that we hav...
April 14, 2022

New Tennessee law hopes to prevent overdose deaths by making life-saving drug more accessible - WKRN News 2

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee House Bill 2465 became law on April 4th. This new law will arm more Tennesseans with the necessary knowledge and tools to help prevent fatal drug-related overdoses that are all too common in our state. This law could be a lifeline in Tennessee, where the opioid epidemic is deadlier than ever and naloxone isn’t widely dispersed. This bill becoming law hits h...
April 14, 2022

Activists Show Support for San Diego Law to Stop Sales of Flavored Tobacco - Times of San Diego

A teen secretly smoking an e-cigarette. Photo via Pixabay Anti-smoking and vaping activists joined council members Jen Campbell and Marni von Wilpert Thursday to show support for ending the sale of flavored tobacco in San Diego. A local ordinance to ban such sales, the SAAFE Act, is set to go before the San Diego City Council on April 25. Council member Marni von Wilpert, in a statement, accu...
April 14, 2022

Activists Gather to Show Support for San Diego Law to Stop Sales of Flavored Tobacco in City - Times of San Diego

A teen secretly smoking an e-cigarette. Photo via Pixabay Anti-smoking and vaping activists joined council members Jen Campbell and Marni von Wilpert Thursday to show support for ending the sale of flavored tobacco in San Diego. A local ordinance to ban such sales, the SAAFE Act, is set to go before the San Diego City Council on April 25. Council member Marni von Wilpert, in a statement, accu...