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(WIBW) TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Washburn University will say goodbye to School of Law Dean Carla Pratt after the school’s spring graduation. Washburn University says Law School Dean Carla Pratt will step down from her role after the school’s 2022 spring commencement ceremony. After almost 4 years of service to the school of law, Washburn said Pratt will return to her home state of Oklahoma to se...

Signs outside Laguna Beach City Hall direct visitors to check-in at the Council Chambers amid a COVID-19 case surge. Photo by Daniel Langhorne By Megan Miller, Special to the Independent The Laguna Beach City Council unanimously approved the adoption of an urgency ordinance Tuesday that puts guardrails on the implementation of a new state law banning single family zoning, which went into effe...

Notre Dame Law School hosted its second annual Financial Wellness Week from March 14 to 18 on important financial education topics most relevant to law students. The programming, hosted in coordination with AccessLex, provided presentations on several law student specific financial topics, including: Funding Your Bar Exam Experience Five Habits of Financially Successful Lawyers Credit and De...

Kristen Waggoner on Yale Law students disrupting event: It shouldn’t take place at a law school A bipartisan panel on civil liberties at Yale Law School was disrupted last week when more than 100 law students tried to drown out and intimidate the speakers, who were there to highlight freedom of speech. One of the panelists at Yale Law School’s forum, Kristen Waggoner, general counsel at the A...

No-Fly Zone Ukraine In an impassioned address to the U.S. Congress on March 16, Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, asked the United States for additional military assistance, including the establishment of a no-fly zone. This is a terror that Europe has not seen, has not seen for 80 years, and we are asking for a reply, for an answer to this terror from the whole world. Is this a lot to...

The iconic Century Tower stands in the middle of the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville on July 22, 2021. Searches for new presidents at state universities are ramping up after Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed a bill that will shield personal information about applicants for the top jobs at colleges and universities. It creates a public-records exemption for information th...

Eric Schmitt, Missouri's attorney general, speaks to the media in November outside of the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis. The Missouri Attorney General's office often refuses to enforce a law designed to ensure government transparency because it considers state agencies like the Department of Health and Senior Services "a client." That leaves complainants with few options t...

WASHINGTON D.C. (BRPROUD) — Fifty students from Southern University Law Center (SULC) will travel to Washington D.C. to participate in events celebrating the confirmation process of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will become the first Black woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court, if confirmed. The students will travel on March 21, the start date for the Senate Judiciary Committee h...

HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNIT In Johnson County, Peter Tkatschenko III was arrested on February 22 for two outstanding warrants for two counts of Possession of Child Pornography. Tkatschenko III was transported to the Johnson County Jail without incident, after refusing an interview. The Burleson Police Department will follow up with additional charges for Burglary. CHILD EXPLOITATION UNIT In Palo P...

HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNIT In Johnson County, Peter Tkatschenko III was arrested on February 22 for two outstanding warrants for two counts of Possession of Child Pornography. Tkatschenko III was transported to the Johnson County Jail without incident, after refusing an interview. The Burleson Police Department will follow up with additional charges for Burglary. CHILD EXPLOITATION UNIT In Palo P...