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A new state law limits the period of public disclosure in the selection process of public university presidents, just as five schools, led by the University of Florida, are seeking them. There’s a wave of Florida’s public university presidents who are stepping down this year, and like clockwork, Florida lawmakers have passed a new law to make the hiring of their successors less transparent. ...

YARMOUTH (CBS) – Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker will mark the fourth anniversary of the death of Yarmouth Police Sgt. Sean Gannon with a ceremonial bill signing Tuesday. Gannon was shot and killed while he and other officers were serving an arrest warrant at a home in Marstons Mills on April 12, 2018. Gannon’s K-9 partner Nero was also shot, but survived. Baker will lead a ceremonial si...

A new law is set to take effect this month that will see some vaping products that use synthetic nicotine pulled from the shelves if they fail to receive authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). President Joe Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill on March 15 that included a provision that amends the definition of a "tobacco product" in order to close a loophole ...

School boards can’t suppress ideas they dislike but do have “broad discretion” The McGinn County Board of Education voted to remove Maus from its curriculum. America is experiencing another spasm of conflict over book banning in public schools. In January 2022, the McGinn County Board of Education in Tennessee provoked a nationwide uproar when it unanimously voted to remove Maus, a graphic no...

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty The Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into former President Donald Trump seems doomed, but a little-known New York law is buying time for prosecutors to build a better case against him and convince the hesitant new DA to act—or wait until he’s replaced. Law enforcement in New York has five years from the date of an alleged ...

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty The Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into former President Donald Trump seems doomed, but a little-known New York law is buying time for prosecutors to build a better case against him and convince the hesitant new DA to act—or wait until he’s replaced. Law enforcement in New York has five years from the date of an alleged ...

The Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into former President Donald Trump seems doomed, but a little-known New York law is buying time for prosecutors to build a better case against him and convince the hesitant new DA to act—or wait until he’s replaced. Law enforcement in New York has five years from the date of an alleged crime to officially file charges for most felonies, but unde...

Judge tosses law firm, delays federal trial for First NBC Bank execs  NOLA.com

Credit: wei/stock.adobe.com The pan-European ‘Best Friends’ network of elite law firms excelled during the pandemic. A result not all observers expected. The network of five top EU firms posted a strong performance in European M&A for both 2020 and for 2021, the two years in which the world was shaken by the coronavirus pandemic. The data, supplied by Dealogic and Mergermarket, shows that...

Credit: Pressmaster/Shutterstock.com The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has dropped its action against a junior solicitor who was struck off after losing a briefcase containing legal documents on a train. Claire Matthews lost her licence to practise law in 2020 after the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found that she had covered up the fact that she had left a briefcase containing leg...