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Junior CBP Officer Devarjaye Daniel recites the Oath of Office for the 388th time as he joined CBP's ranks. HOUSTON (Gray News) – A 10-year-old battling terminal cancer passed up the chance of going to Walt Disney World to become the youngest officer to be sworn into U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Devarjaye Daniel is now a sworn officer of nearly 400 law enforcement agencies, far surpass...

Junior CBP Officer Devarjaye Daniel recites the Oath of Office for the 388th time as he joined CBP's ranks. HOUSTON (Gray News) – A 10-year-old battling terminal cancer passed up the chance of going to Walt Disney World to become the youngest officer to be sworn into U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Devarjaye Daniel is now a sworn officer of nearly 400 law enforcement agencies, far surpass...

ELLIS COUNTY, Kan. — A near-tragic event prompted the daughter of a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper to raise awareness for Kansas’ “move over” law in hopes of expanding it and making penalties more serious. At about 9 a.m. on April 26, Trooper Shawn Summers was conducting a routine vehicle inspection near mile-marker 144 in Ellis County. Summers is a 16-year veteran and has done hundreds of rou...

Anthony Bonner District judge in Oklahoma County A lifelong resident of Oklahoma City, Judge Anthony Bonner is a district judge in Oklahoma County and a civil litigator and trial lawyer. “Growing up, I never aspired to be a lawyer, and most certainly never considered being a judge. However, one of the motivating factors in my decision to go to law school was an experience I had as a teenager,...

Holly Hefton President/attorney, Holly Hefton PC Holly Hefton chose family law to help families get through divorce after her experience with a litigious divorce as a child. She worked her way through college and law school as a manicurist, owning her first business at 19 years old. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1992, while maintaining a thriving business on Campus Corner i...

These industrial hemp plants being cultivated legally in Kansas contain very low amounts of THC. Law enforcement officers are carrying out raids in Topeka on shops selling cannabis products. The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office won’t answer questions about how many stores it has raided, on what dates or how much it seized. Cannabis advocacy groups in Topeka say officers seized goods from sev...

Jackson Lewis Law Firm Logo When the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) became law, it was only a matter of time before other states adopted their own statutes intending to enhance privacy rights and consumer protection for their residents. After overwhelming support in the state legislature, Connecticut is about to become the fifth state with a comprehensive privacy law, as SB 6 ...

Carolyn Thompson Solo practitioner, semi-retired, consulting only Before starting law school in 1980, Carolyn Thompson worked in a cardiovascular clinic in a position that today would be called a physician assistant. In 1978, a law was passed that required physician assistants to be licensed by the state. To become licensed, Thompson would have had to obtain a second bachelor’s degree, which ...

California’s controversial Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (MICRA) could soon change after health care and consumer advocates worked with California legislative leaders to reach an agreement to modify MICRA, resulting in the introduction of Assembly Bill 35 (AB 35) on April 27, 2022. Along with changes to the contingency fee arrangements for plaintiffs’ attorneys, the most sign...

Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls, wants English law to be at the forefront of developments relating to cryptoassets and smart contracts. In his thought-provoking foreword to the government-backed UK Jurisdictional Taskforce’s (UKJT) Legal Statement on Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts, he explained that English law should aim to provide “much needed market confidence, legal certainty ...