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Another skirmish over Florida's election laws By GARY FINEOUT 03/24/2022 07:03 AM EDT Good Thursday morning. Still pending — A federal judge is still trying to sort out what to make of last year’s contentious election law that placed restrictions on dropboxes and mail-in voting. And well, to keep things complicated, the Republican-controlled Legislature passed a new bill this month meant to ...

Colleen F. Nihill, chief knowledge management and practice services officer at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Courtesy photo. The 2022 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards looks to honor innovation occurring in legal departments and law firms across the country. The group of honorees this year for the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards have demonstrated knowledge, skill and compassion, recogn...

A poll worker hands out “I Voted” stickers on Town Meeting Day on March 1. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger On March 1, voters in the Otter Valley School District went to the polls and, by a margin of 60 votes, turned down the budget for the upcoming school year. The unexpected rejection of the $22.7 million proposal, which came amid a steep drop in voter turnout in the district, has thrown t...

45th annual World Championship Snowmobile Hill Climb street closure logistics and law enforcement  Jackson Hole News&Guide

The state Capitol building is seen Aug. 15, 2019, in downtown Cheyenne. Governor Gordon signed SEA44 into law on Monday, an amendment expanding the legal definition of stalking to include electronic means, joining eight other states across the country that have put in place similar legislation. A bill that expands the definition of stalking to encompass 21st century technology was signed into...

IOWA — A new law signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds prevents transgender girls from competing on girls’ teams. After her first high school volleyball season, Decorah freshman Gavy Smith is disappointed she legally won’t be allowed to play next year. “I don’t really think that they just took it into consideration what they’re really doing to people like me,” Smith said. Gov. Reynolds says Iowa’s new ...

Between Dec. 29 and Jan. 14, Mark Bass, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1410 in Mobile, Ala., watched as COVID-19 cases swept through the maritime workforce, ultimately infecting about 20 percent of it. With workers packed in tight quarters, loading and unloading ships and often interacting with seamen coming in from different countries, infection was unavoidab...

R.I. Law Day Essay Contest offers $1000 and $250 scholastic awards  Valley Breeze

The rate of rejected mail ballots soared in the March primary elections in Texas — and those rejections disproportionately affected Democrats, especially Black voters in the state's biggest county. Nearly 23,000 ballots, or about 13% of all returned mail ballots, were thrown out across 187 Texas counties in the March primaries, according to an analysis by the Associated Press. In past electio...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Two Texas abortion advocacy groups are trying a new legal strategy to strike down the state’s restrictive abortion law, which has proven very difficult so far to challenge in court. They’ve filed four lawsuits, including two in federal court, challenging the law’s constitutionality. Bu...