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A FedEx truck turns onto Cesar E. Chavez Parkway from Main Street in Barrio Logan on March 29, 2022. / Photo by Kristian Carreon for Voice of San Diego San Diego Police Department officers have stopped giving out tickets to enforce a city law that bans five-ton semi-trucks from rolling through certain residential streets in Barrio Logan. That ban was intended to keep diesel trucks out of an a...

On March 18, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana issued a preliminary injunction in Montana Medical Association v. Knudsen, enjoining enforcement of part of Montana's vaccination law against "all Montana health care facilities and individual practitioners and clinics" subject to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) COVID-19 vaccination requirement. The M...

Sexual harassment and assault survivors face trauma that will impact them for years, and often for the remainder of their lives. Trauma is not as simple as a wound; it impacts the brain and body in ways those who have never suffered from it cannot understand. As an attorney who has represented many sexual assault and harassment survivors in court, I have witnessed how the civil legal system c...

Karen Wells, mother of Amir Locke, speaking during a Wednesday press conference about the decision not to charge the Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot her son. Rochelle Olson writes in the Star Tribune: “The decision not to charge the Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke during a botched no-knock raid in February came as little surprise to legal observers, many of ...

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On April 2, a Moscow man was arrested for holding up a package of sliced meat. The meat’s brand name was “Miratorg”; he had crossed out the final five letters so it read “Mir,” the Russian word for peace. This week he will have his day in court, and will probably — as others have — receive a hefty fine for “discrediting the Russian military.” That same day, police opened a criminal case again...

Shareholder groups say they'll keep up pressure on board diversity during this year's proxy season after a judge invalidated a California state law requiring companies to have directors from underrepresented backgrounds that has inspired similar laws across the country. Terry Green, a judge for the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, granted a motion for summary judgment from...

Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios The 2022 Georgia legislative session ended with a flurry of bills, including a last minute amendment that could restrict transgender girls from playing high school sports. Yes, but: Many proposals did not become law. The big picture: Even in an election year, some of the most polarizing issues did not see final passage, including a bill to effectively ban aborti...

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Your Turn The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) staunchly defends the independence of our judiciary. Judges must be free to exercise their judgment without concern for the popularity of their decisions or the political consequences. When elected officials engage in personal attacks on judges for their analysis of our laws, they undermine the rule of law, threaten the independence of t...