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March 31, 2022

Russian gag law recalls Minnesota history | Essay - Minnesota Reformer

Commentary Minnesota has an ignominous history of suppressing speech. Image by Steve Buissinne/Pixabay. The Russian Federal Assembly enacted a measure in early March imposing punishment on journalists and others critical of official government policies and practices, including the invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin pushed the so-called “anti-hooliganism” law through his p...
March 31, 2022

Letter: Diversify law schools on Supreme Court - Danbury News Times

What about law school diversity? Currently, eight of the nine current justices are from Ivy League elitist law schools, four from Harvard Law, and four from Yale Law. Only one justice, is not. Amy Coney Barrett is a Notre Dame law graduate. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a new justice on the court who graduated from any one of the dozens of accredited ordinary law schools who worked their w...
March 31, 2022

Russia's Jehovah's Witnesses caught up in "extremist" law - Reuters.com

An undated handout photograph of Russian Jehovah's Witness Timofey Zhukov. Handout via REUTERS LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) - In the early morning of Feb. 15, 2019, armed police and intelligence agents burst into Timofey Zhukov's home in Surgut, an oil town in western Siberia. They knocked him to the floor, then began searching his belongings, he said. It was one of at least 20 raids across Sur...
March 31, 2022

Tyroler Injury Law Awards $500 Gifts to Area Teachers - PR Newswire

The monthly giveaway is designed to celebrate outstanding educators. OAKDALE, Minn., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Isaac Tyroler announces his law firm's $500 monthly teacher giveaway designed to show appreciation and encouragement to outstanding schoolteachers in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Residents, students, and teachers themselves can nominate any teacher, and the winner will be s...
March 31, 2022

Letter: Diversify law schools on Supreme Court - CTPost

To the editor, There has been a lot of focus on the value of “diversity” during the Senate judiciary committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. What about law school diversity? Currently, eight of the nine current justices are from Ivy League elitist law schools, four from Harvard Law, and four from Yale Law. Only one justice, is not. Amy Coney B...
March 31, 2022

US healthcare data breach impacts 85,000 law enforcement officers - The Daily Swig

Law Enforcement Health Benefits was hit by a ransomware attack last year Anton Prado Photo / Shutterstock Law Enforcement Health Benefits (LEHB), a health and welfare fund for Philadelphia police officers, sheriffs, and county detectives, has revealed that it suffered a ransomware attack last year. According to the organization, attackers started encrypting files stored on its network on Sept...
March 31, 2022

Clayton Schools dropping mask mandate to comply with new state law - The Atlanta Journal Constitution

Clayton County Schools will no longer expect students and staff to wear masks in district facilities or on the system’s buses. The south metro Atlanta district, which has maintained strict mask protocols throughout the pandemic, said it was changing its policy to comply with a new state law signed Tuesday by Gov. Brian Kemp. Under the law, districts can still have mask mandates. But they must...
March 31, 2022

Atlanta Law Enforcement Launch Repeat Offender Tracking Unit - Crime Report

Atlanta law enforcement officials, including the mayor, police chief, the Fulton County sheriff, the district attorney, and the county’s chief judge, have announced the creation of the Repeat Offender Tracking Unit — combining local, county, and federal law enforcement agency’s resources and information to identify the city’s most egregious offenders and track their cases through the court sy...
March 31, 2022

Opinion: Expansion of Good Samaritan Law Smashes the Balance Between Public Health and Public Safety - Josh Kurtz

Lady Justice. Unsplash.com photo. By Joseph Riley The writer is legislative chair of the Maryland State’s Attorneys Association. Current Maryland law allows for immunity from arrest and prosecution for certain offenses if evidence was gathered from a result of observation of a medical emergency (usually an overdose) and that observer seeks assistance. Both the person needing assistance and th...