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Last May, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a series of new police accountability laws. This week, he signed another bill that supporters call a "clarification" of those laws. But opponents call it a "rollback." HB 2037 authorizes police to use force to prevent someone from fleeing the scene during a brief, investigative detention. Police said under last year’s HB 1310, they lacked the ab...

On March 16, 2022, China’s Supreme People’s Court issued the Judicial Interpretation (JI) of Anti-Unfair Competition Law (UCL) (最高人民法院关于适用〈中华人民共和国反不正当竞争法〉若干问题的解释), which will go into effect March 20, 2022. The Anti-Unfair Competition Law has been used effectively by foreigners in trademark and trade dress cases when the foreigners’ trademarks have not been registered (or in addition to a trad...

In this webinar, we will explore the results of the highly anticipated Leopard Solutions' Women Leaving Law survey which is looking at why so many women have left the practice of law and their big law jobs, especially since the pandemic. Speakers include: Laura Leopard, CEO and Founder of Leopard Solutions Stefanie Marrone, law firm CMO and founder of Stefanie Marrone Consulting and more

Chukwunyere Onuoha and escape vehicle, image via Alexandria Police Department Three months after he allegedly assaulted Alexandria police officers in the Carlyle neighborhood and fled the scene, Chukwunyere Onuoha has been apprehended in Texas and is awaiting extradition back to Alexandria. According to a release from APD, on Dec. 27, police responded to a report of an individual in a domesti...

Eric Schmitt answers questions during a press conference after filing to run in the Missouri Senate primaries on Feb. 22, 2022 in Jefferson City (photo by Madeline Carter). When Missouri’s health department refused to turn over certain documents to ProPublica reporter Pamela Colloff in October 2020, she did what the attorney general’s office directs anyone to do if they believe a government a...

Liliana Zaragoza, the new director of the clinic The University of Minnesota Law School’s new Racial Justice Law Clinic, opening with the start of classes this fall, will provide rich opportunities to make a difference in numerous areas, including the criminal legal system, voting rights, education, employment and housing. Liliana Zaragoza is joining the law school as an associate clinical ...

FILE - A sign reading "#TodayWeAreAllUKRAINE" hangs from the desk of the Swiss delegation, Feb. 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. "I was thinking of a hashtag, 'Even Switzerland,'" Ambassador Jacques Pitteloud said half jokingly, noting that U.S. President Joe Biden had uttered this phrase in his State of the Union address as he highlighted the international reaction to Russia's invas...

For at least a decade, Irwin oversaw the Labor & Employment division at Leech Tishman, a law firm that states they provide "union avoidance" services, a common euphemism for what union organizers label "union-busting." (Steve Irwin for Congress twitter) PITTSBURGH, PA – Payday Report has recently discovered that Steve Irwin, who is locked in a tough three-way primary for Pittsburgh’s open...

NBC Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) is getting a major blast from his past, at a time when he really needs it, on Law & Order: Organized Crime. Dann Florek, who played Stabler’s boss, friend, and mentor Captain Donald Cragen on SVU, guest stars in the April 7 episode of Meloni’s spinoff. The promo offers a look at his return, as well as Stabler’s next move in his current ...

Rep. Bobby Rush stands on the U.S. House floor next to a photograph of Mamie Till and her future husband, Gene Mobley, as she views her son Emmett's brutalized body. Rush used the image to highlight the impact of racial terrorism and make the case for the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which he sponsored. (Image is a still from C-SPAN video.) President Biden is set to sign into law a bill tha...