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The state of New Hampshire is asking a federal court to dismiss a case challenging a law that prohibits certain kinds of teaching on racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. Get NHPR's reporting about politics, the pandemic, and other top stories in your inbox — sign up for our newsletter (it's free!) today. The law, championed by Republican lawmakers and Education Commissioner Frank Ede...

Legislators have proposed allowing law students to work at a legal aid clinic in Fort Kent to alleviate the shortage of lawyers in the area. Lawyer Toby Jandreau didn’t quite realize the extent of the need for legal help in Fort Kent, Maine, until he moved back to the area about 12 years ago. “I had the Ryder truck in the driveway, we were unpacking it. And my dad pulls in the driveway, and h...

A coroner’s inquest jury unanimously ruled Monday that the four Seattle police officers who shot and killed a 19-year-old man in 2017 complied with the law and department policy. The ruling follows two weeks of testimony during the first inquest under King County’s newly revamped process to examine deaths that occur at the hands of law enforcement officers. The eight-member jury deliberated f...

The new law would impose a six-month jail sentence for citizens residing in the country accused of spreading disinformation that undermines the 'prestige of the state' A decade of war, western sanctions and the Covid-19 pandemic have devastated Syria's economy (AFP/File photo) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signed into law a bill on Monday that would impose a six-month jail sentence for cit...

Arizona Legalizes Lane Filtering; Utah Extends Law for an Additional Five Years  Cycle News

(Photo via Yale Law School) This won’t come as much of a shock to anyone familiar with the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed page, but the reports of students “shouting down” speakers at a Yale Law School Federalist Society event seem, to be overly generous, exaggerated. Good thing we spent a week with overwrought jeremiads about cancel culture and bad “heckler’s veto” takes over something that did...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Senate gave the go-ahead to two bills regarding law enforcement in Oklahoma. The first is Senate Bill 1612, also known as the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety Unification Act. SB1612 would consolidate the following agencies in 2023: Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP), Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) and Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs C...

(Reuters) - Yale Law Dean Heather Gerken on Monday called the behavior of some Yale Law students who protested a controversial campus speaker “unacceptable,” marking her first public comments on the March 10 incident that spurred a wave of discussion about free speech at the elite school. “This is an institution of higher learning, not a town square,” Gerken wrote in a message to students, fa...

Senator O'Mara (front row, left) joined colleagues and law enforcement to call for a stronger state commitment to public safety and security. It’s clear to most reasonable New Yorkers that rising crime and violence, and weakened public safety and security, are the result of the pro-criminal policies being enacted and pushed by this governor and a State Legislature under one-pa...

IP weaponized As Russia batters Ukraine; Tech workers fleeing As we wrote in this recent blog, whistleblowers from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have called for the closure of WIPO’s Russia office in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They’re concerned that WIPO activities may have inadvertently assisted Russia in developing and commercializing military equipme...