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March 16, 2022

Rockland police remind public of Good Samaritan Law - Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald

Rockland Maine Fire and Emergency Medical Services departments responded early Wednesday morning to a report of an overdose. Rockland Police were first on the scene March 16, quickly assessed the situation, and administered Narcan. The person was taken to Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport and is expected to recover. “It is a good time to remind people of the Good Samaritan Law and the import...
March 16, 2022

Portugal to change law under which Roman Abramovich gained citizenship - The Guardian

The Portuguese government is to tighten the law granting nationality to the descendants of Jews who were expelled from the Iberian peninsula 500 years ago, as concerns grow over the controversial decision to award Roman Abramovich citizenship because of his apparent Sephardic Jewish heritage. The Russian oligarch and Chelsea FC owner, who is now subject to UK and EU sanctions because of his t...
March 16, 2022

Missouri considers law to make illegal to ‘aid or abet’ out-of-state abortion - PBS NewsHour

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — First-of-its-kind Missouri legislation shows that anti-abortion lawmakers in Republican-led states aren’t likely to stop at banning most abortions within their borders but also could try to make it harder to go out of state to end pregnancies. A proposal that could be debated in the Legislature as soon as next week seeks to make it illegal to “aid or abet” abortions...
March 16, 2022

AG says Pasadena ordinance violates California housing law - FOX 11 Los Angeles

SACRAMENTO - The city of Pasadena, home to the annual Rose Parade and Rose Bowl college football game, is violating a new California law designed to increase affordable housing, the state attorney general warned Tuesday. It’s Attorney General Rob Bonta’s second such action after proponents of denser housing said more than a dozen communities across California had been hurrying to adopt restri...
March 16, 2022

Schmitt sues Rockwood School District over alleged Sunshine Law violations - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File) Schmitt's office said in a news release it had requested records related to a move by the district to publish on its website the number for an FBI tip line connected to the federal law enforcement agency's move to probe threats to school board members. According to a news release, Schmitt's team on Nov. 19 asked the distric...
March 16, 2022

This woman-owned Columbus law firm specializes in succession planning. Now they're living it. - Columbus Business First - The Business Journals

When Bea Wolper founded Columbus law firm Emens, Wolper Jacob & Jasin in 2009, she wanted to make sure that women lawyers coming up in the profession were treated better than she was earlier in her career. “I’m old enough to remember the terrible condition of women trying to practice in (largely male and white) firms,” Wolper told us. “Women and minorities didn’t have a chance to grow and...
March 16, 2022

New law school admissions experiment would bypass the LSAT - Reuters.com

(Reuters) - Some aspiring attorneys might not have to take the Law School Admission Test to apply to law school in the future. The Law School Admission Council — which administers the LSAT and maintains a centralized application system for law schools — said Wednesday that it is designing a program to enable would-be law students to apply without taking a standardized test. The new program wo...
March 16, 2022

History In the Making: Stephen L. Ball Appointed Harvard Law School's New Dean Of Students - Black Enterprise

History In the Making: Stephen L. Ball Appointed Harvard Law School's New Dean Of Students  Black Enterprise
March 16, 2022

Florida law hides ID of university president search candidates from public record - WFLA

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A bill hiding the identities of presidential search candidates for public colleges and universities in Florida was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday with no fanfare or announcement until after it was complete. The law was passed by the legislature on March 4 and scheduled to go into effect immediately upon becoming law. It allows candidates in the final stag...
March 16, 2022

Idaho's anti-abortion law takes a page from Texas' playbook. - Slate

Activists hold sign as they gather on International Women’s Day to oppose the growing assault on abortion rights. The slow impending death of Roe v. Wade at the hands of the Supreme Court has encouraged red states to experiment with different approaches to tormenting abortion patients. In the months since it became clear that the court planned to let Roe die this summer, states have playfully...