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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- 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 ado...

Russian billionaire and owner of Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich arrives at a division of the High Court in central London October 31, 2011. Portugal has tightened a law that grants citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews and which allowed Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich to become a citizen, but the changes will not be retroactive, the foreign minister said on Wednesday. The bil...

Tallahassee, Fla. – Investigators with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement (OALE) have arrested four individuals while they attempted to tamper with gas pumps and steal fuel. “Our law enforcement investigators, officers, and partners are working hard every day to protect Florida consumers and businesses from theft and othe...

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Nearly 200 law students have urged law firms to dump all of their Russian clients. They asked firms to do more than just close offices in Moscow. Some law firms have made hundreds of millions of dollars in Russia over the years. Law students from Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and other top US l...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill known as “Adam’s Law” that will require student organizations at Virginia colleges to go through hazing prevention training. A push for change in the way fraternities and sororities prevent hazing came in the wake of the death of Adam Oakes, a 19-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University freshman who died of alcoholic intoxicatio...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif., March 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An air force veteran filed a lawsuit Monday alleging housing discrimination based on his veteran status. Mark A. Baird, a war veteran, alleges that he was turned away from buying a home in Rancho Mirage, California because of hostility towards veterans and VA loans. Baird is suing under a new California law that makes housing discrimination...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and 19 of his colleagues in expressing concern over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) use of internal guidance to enforce regulations that are unpublished and unknown to the public. In an alarming display of insufficient transparency from a federal agency, the ATF has used this secret guidance...

Mark Ellis is the executive director of the International Bar Association based in London. Legal affairs editor Don Franzen spoke with him recently concerning the international law implications of Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. ¤ DON FRANZEN: Dr. Ellis, you are the head of the International Bar Association, and a leading expert in the field of international law. You’ve recently opined in T...

PROVO, Utah, March 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law, a global law school focused on preparing the next generation of leaders in legal practice, today announced that its 2021-22 Law and Leadership Conference will focus on "peacebuilding," where participants will discuss how we might change the world for the better in the wake of a global pandemic and civil unrest. This year's event, on March 2...