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Phone numbers, home addresses, and (yikes!) internet browsing histories have been handed right over to hackers who approached tech companies while posing as police, and what’s more, most of the hackers were teenagers. Information security is admittedly a hard game, and tech companies do have a legitimate conflict between protecting users’ privacy and protecting the public at large from violen...

Utah has followed California and New York by enacting its own Truth in Lending-like commercial financing disclosure law, but with an additional twist—Utah’s new law has a registration requirement. On March 24, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed SB 183 into law, with an effective date of January 1, 2023. This Legal Update discusses how this new law fits into the recent trend of states enacting c...

--> Sorry, we're having issues playing this video. In the meantime, try watching one of the videos below. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court dealt a final blow to a federal challenge to the controversial Texas abortion law SB 8. The crux of this decision was determining who is actually enforcing the rule: the government or civilians. Regardless of one's personal opinions about the b...

MILWAUKEE — Dr. Jessica Silbey, professor of law and Yanakakis Faculty Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law, will deliver Marquette University Law School’s Nies Lecture on Intellectual Property on Wednesday, April 6, at 5 p.m. in the Lubar Center at Eckstein Hall, 1215 W. Michigan St. Silbey’s lecture, “Questions of Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Digital Ag...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during the opening session of Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) in Antalya, Turkey March 11, 2022. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS ISTANBUL, March 31 (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament on Thursday passed a law lowering the minimum required votes for a party to enter parliament to 7% from 10%, in a move could reduce the...

OU Law drops in U.S. News, World Report's 2023 top law school rankings amid methodology changes  The Oklahoma Daily

On March 24, 2022, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law ESHB 1795, which generally prohibits nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions in agreements between employers and employees. The law, which applies to current or prospective employees and independent contractors, makes void and unenforceable any nondisclosure or nondisparagement provisions that covers conduct an employee r...

After years of waiting, the promised pay raise for Mississippi teachers has become a reality as Governor Tate Reeves signed the “START Act of 2022” (HB 530) into law on Thursday afternoon. The bill will distribute over $246 million to Mississippi public school teachers, making it the largest teacher pay raise bill in state history. Although the START Act highlights raising the base teacher sa...

WASHINGTON — A Missouri man was arrested today for assaulting law enforcement officers during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election. Cale Clayton, 41, of Drexel, Missouri, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the Di...

New townhomes under construction. REUTERS/Octavio Jones Four Southern California cities, led by wealthy Redondo Beach, have filed a legal challenge to Senate Bill 9, a state law that permits single-family lots to be divided for development of two to four new homes. The Los Angeles Superior Court petition was brought Tuesday against Attorney General Rob Bonta by the cities of Redondo Beach, To...