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On March 14, 2022, the EEOC released a new technical assistance guidance document entitled “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Caregiver Discrimination Under Federal Employment Discrimination Law.” Essentially, the guidance reiterates that an employer may not discriminate against an applicant or employee under federal law on the basis of protected classes such sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientat...

National Guardsmen patrol the streets in Chicago following rioting and arson that ensued after the news of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 6, 1968. (AP Photo) What is martial law? While there is no universal definition, the term often refers to the use of the military for law enforcement. But contrary to popular belief, simply calling up federal or state military...

Legislation has been introduced by members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources that would require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to vet the human rights record of conservation grantees. The draft bill follows an investigation by the U.S. Congress into human rights abuses at protected areas in Central Africa and South Asia that were receiving U.S. funding. If it passes, the l...

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This week, as legal and judicial elites gather in New Orleans for the Tulane Corporate Law Institute, Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware (CPBD) has launched a paid media campaign in New Orleans to draw attention to corruption and racial disparities in America’s courts and legal system. “This is hypocrisy, plain and simple. Delaware’s notoriously all-white Chan...

Apple Inc. is facing one of the biggest challenges yet to how it controls and profits from the App Store as Europe prepares to complete a new competition law in the coming weeks. The new European Union legislation—which could be effectively completed as soon as this month—is set to direct Apple to allow software to be downloaded outside its cash-generating App Store and limit how companies im...

Helping first responders deescalate a mental health crisis is the focus of a training program in Otsego County. (WPBN) OTSEGO COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Helping first responders deescalate a mental health crisis is the focus of a training program in Otsego County. Law enforcement from four counties are taking part. Nineteen northern Michigan law enforcement officers and first responders ar...

The new Indiana law requires police working as school resources officers to complete specialized training for how to interact with students. Lawmakers overwhelmingly supported the legislation. A new Indiana law will require all police who regularly work inside public schools to undergo basic school resource officer training — effectively closing a loophole that advocates have long wanted la...

Law enforcement officials warn Floridians not to accept a social media challenge to shoot at others with soft gel beads called Orbeez. Florida law enforcement officials are warning young people not to accept the Orbeez challenge that's gone out on the social media app TikToK. (Shutterstock) PASCO COUNTY, FL — Florida law enforcement officials are warning people against following the latest so...

The rooftop of the U.C. Hastings Cotchett Law Center in San Francisco.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times When a New York Times article last year detailed the involvement of the founder of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in state-sponsored massacres of Indigenous Californians, an outcry ensued. The law school’s board swiftly and unanimously agreed to change...

Veronika Belotserkovskaya, an influencer best known in Russia for glamorous Instagram posts on her life and cooking classes, has become one of the first targets of the country’s draconian new legislation that makes criticism of the war in Ukraine punishable by as many as 15 years in jail. An unlikely candidate for the wrath of President Vladimir Putin’s government, the influencer known on Ins...