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Distracted driving(WABI) Maine (WABI) - Law enforcement agencies in Maine will be on the lookout for distracted drivers during the next five days as part of a statewide campaign. On average, distracted driving results in more than 3,400 crashes, five hundred injuries, and about 45 deaths each year in Maine, according to the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety. The bureau wants to remind drivers no...

A long-awaited reform bill expected to save the Postal Service a total of $107 billion is now law. President Joe Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act into law Wednesday. The House and Senate passed the bill with strong bipartisan support last month. The legislation will eliminate a 2006 mandate from Congress to pre-fund retiree health benefits, a requirement that Biden said “stretched t...

The law firm of Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C., will host a complimentary breakfast seminar on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, featuring attorneys in its Labor & Employment Group. The seminar will be held from 8-10 a.m. at the Shackamaxon Country Club (100 Tillinghast Turn, Scotch Plains, NJ 07076). The seminar will include interactive discussions on recent employment law d...

Daphne Myers L'23 reacts as she learns from Jennifer Schott of AccessLex Institute on April 6, 2022, that she is the winner of a random drawing for a $25,000 scholarship to be used for tuition in the 2022-23 academic year. A first-generation Elon Law student is among a half dozen winners of a national $25,000 scholarship drawing for her participation in workshops designed to help law students...

Scott Thompson has been teaching at Liberty since 2004 (Photo by KJ Jugar) Learning the law of the land and acquiring the skills necessary to practice law are both essential elements for today’s law school students. “Law school education has kind of been through a revolution in the last couple of decades, and Liberty has been on the cutting edge,” said Liberty University School of Law profess...

ROBERTSDALE Ala. (WALA) - The year 2021 was a deadly one for law enforcement across Alabama. Eleven public servants lost their lives in the line of duty. It really hit home in Baldwin County where four souls were lost. Attorney General Steve Marshall honored each of them and their families Wednesday, April 6, 2022. “I think the word, ‘hero’ gets thrown around maybe far too much,” Marshall sai...

Northfield Town Hall. Staff File Photo/PAUL FRANZ » Buy this Image NORTHFIELD — The Attorney General’s Office determined the Northfield Planning Board violated the Open Meeting Law, but in a different way than member Joseph Graveline had originally alleged. Graveline filed an Open Meeting Law complaint in January alleging the Planning Board’s Feb. 18, 2021 minutes were “incongruent” with...

Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law the Silenced No More Act (Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1795) on March 24, 2022, making Washington the second state in the nation after California to prohibit employers from using certain nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions in employment agreements. Employers should take immediate steps to come into compliance. How is this law differe...

A postal worker leaves a United State Postal Service facility on Aug. 13, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) (The Hill) – President Biden on Wednesday signed into law legislation reforming the U.S. Postal Service in a bid to increase transparency and stabilize the financial footing of what he called an essential agency. Biden listed off the critical functions of the Postal ...

0:00/ 0:00PlayFullscreenDownloadMuteCastCaptions0:00/ 0:00PlayFullscreenDownloadMuteCastCaptions CNN — President Joe Biden signed a sweeping bill into law on Wednesday that will overhaul the US Postal Service’s finances and allow the agency to modernize its service. “It’s no exaggeration to say that the Postal Service delivers democracy. And it’s no exaggeration to say the Postal Service is a...