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File photo of a handgun. INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD Assistant Chief Chris Bailey has penned an OP-ED piece in the Indianapolis Star calling for Governor Eric Holcomb to veto legislation to scrap Indiana’s handgun permit system. “The best thing he could do for us is to veto this bill and send the message to the community that he supports law enforcement and that he cares about the violent crime in ou...

COLUMBUS— Early release options for inmates would expand by increasing the maximum amount of credit prisoners may earn for taking in-prison programming from 8% to 15% of their sentence, under a debated update to Ohio’s criminal justice laws. Providing an incentive for taking programming would positively reinforce rehabilitation and give inmates hope of leaving sooner by putting the work in, K...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, has authored a bill that aims to prevent Russia from using cryptocurrency to evade sanctions. The Russian government is not using cryptocurrencies to evade economic sanctions in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a panel of experts told members of a Senate committee on Thursday. “We have not seen any evidence of Russia or [President Vlad...

A federal judge this week struck down an Iowa law that made it a crime for animal rights groups to go undercover and film potential livestock abuse on farms or other animal operations. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa rejected a 2019 law, known as Ag-Gag 2.0, that created a trespassing charge — punishable by up to a year — for people deceptively gaining access to an a...

Rockhill WESTMORELAND — A 55-year-old man is accused of injuring a sheriff’s deputy during a fight on Dix Road in Westmoreland late Wednesday night, according to officials with the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities said Lloyd Rockhill, of Westmoreland, was involved in a domestic dispute at his residence on Dix Road at about 11 p.m. Wednesday. Deputies responded and attempted to take...

wake surfing COLUMBIA, S.C. (WMBF) - A new South Carolina law doubles the distance boats underway must observe and prohibits “wake surfing” within 200 feet of a dock, a person or an anchored watercraft. A new law signed by Gov. McMaster establishes on most of South Carolina’s major reservoirs a new 100-foot distance limit that boats underway must observe when approaching a dock, a person in t...

House panel OKs proposed ‘Maya’s Law’ to give child abuse victims more privacy in interviews Imagine being abused by another person, and when telling your story to a cop, your abuser is present during the interview. Absurd, right? Also intimidating, coercive, and pretty ineffective at getting good information to pursue a criminal case. But a similar scenario can happen in Minnesota if the ab...

The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. (Reuters) - The top three U.S. law schools have joined forces to track law firms' policies on working for Russian clients in...

Attendees catch beads from floats at a parade during Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., on Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2022. Photographer: Jon Cherry/Bloomberg Hi, it’s Kiel, Michelle and Scott in New Orleans, where we’re meeting with top bankers and the who’s who of the legal M&A world at the Tulane Corporate Law Institute. Activism is always a hot topic at Tulane ...

California Relaxes Standard For Proving Whistleblower Claims Lawson v. PPG Architectural Finishes, Inc., 12 Cal. 5th 703 (2022) Plaintiff Wallen Lawson, who was discharged by his employer PPG Architectural Finishes for allegedly poor performance, brought a whistleblower claim against PPG; Lawson claimed he was terminated because he had uncovered and reported a supervisor’s scheme to “mis-tin...