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MU law students help veterans get back $10 million in benefits initially denied  Columbia Missourian

Hubbard County installed a second, official drop box in 2020. It's located to the left of the Hubbard County Government Center's front doors. Many voters utilized it to submit their ballots during the pandemic. County commissioners are deciding whether to discontinue it for balloting purposes. Hubbard County commissioners tabled a decision whether or not to apply for a 2022 ballot drop bo...

AUSTIN, Texas - "No one can say that what we have now, in all parts of Austin, is helping anyone," said Cleo Petricek, co-founder for Save Austin Now. More and more homeless encampment tents are popping up across the Austin area regardless of the camping ban voted back in place last year. "What we have now is unregulated encampments in everyone's neighborhood that are not appropriate for anyo...

Women celebrating in front of the Supreme Court after the confirmation vote on Thursday.Credit...Cheriss May for The New York Times ATLANTA — Black women in law from around the country celebrated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Thursday, with many saying they felt proud and inspired by her accomplishment. Nia Jolly, a second-year law student at the Universit...

Photo by Denin Lawley | Unsplash Faith-based adoption and foster care agencies in the state who make decisions based on their religious views are now free to do so without any threat of lawsuits thanks to a new law signed this week, and opponents say that could hurt foster kids across the state. The new law, which Gov. Doug Ducey signed yesterday, protects foster and adoption agencies from re...

Florida has taken another step towards expanding telemedicine. On April 6, 2022, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law legislation to remove Florida’s prior restrictions on telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances. Previously, Florida had a general prohibition on prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine, with only narrow exceptions. The new law (SB 312) eliminates the ban f...

Most law firms understand the importance of email to their overall digital marketing strategy. Despite other emerging marketing tactics such as social media, email is still an incredibly effective way to remain top-of-mind and nurture relationships with clients and prospects. While most law firms realize that email is here to stay, unfortunately, that doesn’t exactly mean certain email market...

On March 15, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (the “Act”) as part of an omnibus appropriations bill. The Act compels “covered entities” — companies in a “critical infrastructure sector”— to report to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) within 24 hours of making a ransomware payment or within 72...

While state lawmakers in Oklahoma and Texas are pushing to restrict abortion access, this week Colorado became the latest state to guarantee the right to have an abortion. However, social media posts have misconstrued what the state’s new law will do. On April 4, when Colorado’s measure was signed into law, anti-abortion activist Lila Rose tweeted, "BREAKING: Colorado Governor Jared Polis has...

Hotel Association of New York CEO Vijay Dandapani (Getty Images, iStock) The forlorn hotel industry has suffered another blow as a judge upheld a city law requiring severance payments for laid-off workers. The Hotel Association of New York’s challenge to the hotel severance bill was struck down in federal court, Crain’s reported. The industry trade group doesn’t have any plans to appeal the d...