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Tallahassee, Fla. — Today, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement (OALE) announced it has identified and charged an individual following a bomb threat made against an OALE agricultural inspection station in late March 2022. Charles Leslie Aikens of Liberty County, Florida, who was being held at the Wakulla County Jail on unre...

Pets must be handed over 'for humane dispatch' if an official merely believes they could be infected. A dog handler walks with dogs along a street in Hong Kong, March 18, 2022. Authorities in Hong Kong have changed the law to force people to hand over pets and other animals believed infected with COVID-19 for 'humane dispatch,' as police have been tasked with investigating activists who tried...

Employment cases present unique challenges in both state and federal courts. Attorneys who practice in that area have to operate comfortably in both forums and understand some of the traps that less experienced practitioners might miss. Sole practitioner Jason Smith has been practicing employment law in trial and appellate courts for most of his career. Jason joins Todd Smith and Jody Sanders...

Gov. Bill Lee has allowed legislation imposing residency requirements on most U.S. House and Senate hopefuls to become law without his signature. FILE - State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus attends a news conference at the State Department, Wednesday, June 24, 2020, in Washington. Tennessee lawmakers have passed a residency requirement for Republican and Democratic U.S. House and Sena...

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Several Suncoast law enforcement agencies will participate in the run.(NPPD) SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Officers from both North Port Police and Sarasota Police will take part in the Florida Special Olympics Torch Run Friday. More than 5,000 officers carry the torch on a 1,500-mile relay throughout Florida. Officers and civilian runners will join more than 300 Florida law enforcement agencies in...

Photo illustration by Warren Craghead, photos by Julia Davis and Jesús Pino Certain property tax schemes designed to give rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods a tax break might be disproportionately benefiting white homebuyers, explains Professor Andrew Hayashi on the latest episode of “Common Law,” a podcast of the University of Virginia School of Law. Hayashi, director of the school’s Virginia...

Traffic backed up for miles after law enforcement activity forced the closure of a major Los Angeles highway during the Thursday morning commute. The California Highway Patrol closed all lanes of Interstate 405 around 3 a.m. near the Sherman Oaks neighborhood on the city's west side. Northbound lanes were reopened around 5 a.m. but the southbound side remained closed until further notice. Few...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Traffic backed up for miles after law enforcement activity forced the closure of a major Los Angeles highway during the Thursday morning commute. The California Highway Patrol closed all lanes of Interstate 405 around 3 a.m. near the Sherman Oaks neighborhood on the city's west side. Northbound lanes were reopened around 5 a.m. but the southbound side remained closed until ...

NEW YORK, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of Practising Law Institute (PLI), held on April 13, 2022, the following Trustees were newly elected for three-year terms: Robert P. Bartlett, III, UC Berkeley School of Law; Noga Rosenthal, Ampersand; and Katherine J. Stoller, Shearman & Sterling LLP. They join the following Trustees who were reelecte...