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Governor Mark Gordon Governor Mark Gordon allowed Wyoming’s new redistricting law to become law without his signature last Friday. Gordon said he didn’t sign the bill noting that it was out of deviation in some places. In a previous press conference, he expressed little concern that parts of Johnson and Sheridan Counties may have higher populations in legislative districts than allowed by l...

“Dr. [John] Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history,” U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter wrote in an opinion published on Monday. “Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower—it was a coup in search of a legal theory.” Eastman, you’ll recall, is the legal scholar who advocated that Vice Presid...

In 2019, two years before Christopher Meloni's Elliot Stabler was given a reboot with the debut of "Law & Order: Organized Crime," long-time fans of his origin series, "Law & Order: SVU," shared their thoughts on how they'd improve on the notoriously hot-headed detective on the series' subreddit. Predictably, most took issue Stabler's infamously short fuse. "Give him [some] anger ...

Intermittent showers, breezy MGN graphic BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a strict new abortion bill into law last week, and Oregon is preparing for an increase in women seeking abortions because of it. The bill, modeled after a new law in Texas, bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. According to the New York Times, abortions in Texas have dropped 60 percent sin...

Chemours’s new PFAS treatment system proposed for Outfall 004 could discharge up to 60 times more GenX into the Cape Fear River than a separate system currently operating at Outfall 002. (Map: Chemours draft permit application to DEQ) Chemours could discharge high amounts of PFAS into the Cape Fear River, even though the company has proven it can keep levels of the toxic material at a minimum...

In Spire Healthcare v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 17, the Court of Appeal reversed the first instance decision of Judge Pelling QC holding that the two sets of claims in question had in common a unifying factor, such that they should be aggregated for the purposes of the aggregation clause in the policy. The net effect of this decision was that the insured’s claim w...

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The Supreme Court on Monday issued orders from the justices’ private conference last week, adding three new cases to next term’s docket. The new cases involve a challenge to an animal-welfare law in California, a death-penalty issue in Arizona, and a copyright dispute over an Andy Warhol work. The justices also turned down a request from Texas to weigh in on the private nondelegation doctrine...

A Syrian refugee holds a poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in a bus window at the border crossing point of Jdedeh Yabous, on his way to Syria, on August 13, 2018. 'People across the country... live in fear of being arrested for expressing their opinion' Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Monday signed into law a bill enshrining a six-month prison sentence for citizens residing in ...

State Supreme Court again strikes down part of harassment law as unconstitutional  coloradopolitics.com