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By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org CONCORD – Changing the state’s four-year-old law which bans “conversion therapy” for youth is bringing out strong opposition among the state’s LGBTQ+ community. In a press conference Tuesday, the day before a House of Representatives is expected to vote on House Bill 1077 as well as House Bill 1180 relative to school sports, Chris Erchull of GLAD said it would “e...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana school boards will be required to allow public comment during their meetings under a bill that was signed Tuesday into law. Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the measure that gained final legislative approval on March 2, according to the governor’s office. The new law taking effect July 1 mandates that school boards offer an oral public comment period at all public meetings...

March 15 (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers in Georgia were poised on Tuesday to advance a bill expanding law enforcement's power to investigate election fraud, adding to a broader push by U.S. conservatives for more restrictive voting laws after former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was rigged. Tuesday's expected vote in Georgia's House of Representatives comes le...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law Monday banning "critical race theory" and limiting education on race in schools. Senate Bill 2113, "Critical Race Theory; Prohibit," does not mention critical race theory by name except for in its title. Critical race theory is a discipline taught in higher education that analyzes how racism has shaped U.S. laws and how those laws continue to impact t...

The Shawnee News-Star The West Law Firm Founder, Terry West, recently was honored as one of three “Hall of Fame” inductees by the University of Tulsa (UT) College of Law, Alumni Association. The 2022 Alumni Gala, held on March 5 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, also honored the Honorable T. Lane Wilson (BS 1989, JD 1994) and Marcia M. MacLeod (BS 1975, JD 1980) as incoming Hall of F...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s election integrity bill is now the law of the land after getting Gov. Eric Holcomb’s signature. Indiana Secretary of State Holli Sullivan said the law “enhances security around absentee ballots, continues cybersecurity services for counties in order to protect the statewide voter registration system, and ensures by the next presidential election every Hoosier will cas...

Gov. Tony Evers is sending another $50 million in federal funds to police forces and courthouses across the state to boost law enforcement and crime prevention programs, and to clear a backlog of criminal cases created by the coronavirus pandemic, with the bulk of the spending in Milwaukee. Evers announced the spending plan on the steps of the Milwaukee County Courthouse, which will receive $...

Drew Angerer via Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden implored a large crowd of city, town and village leaders to spread the impact of funds provided by last year's American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and infrastructure law when he spoke at the National League of Cities' (NLC) Congressional City Conference Monday afternoon. "We need your voices, the voices of local officials who understa...

A lawyer who was jailed in China for two years after he participated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest was killed Monday in his New York office, officials said. Li Jinjin, 66, an immigration lawyer, was found fatally stabbed in his Queens office shortly before noon Monday, New York City police said.Officers responded to a report of an assault in progress at the office in the Flushing neigh...

Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent T. Markus Funk (a partner at Perkins Coie and a scholar of, among other things, self-defense law) and I published an article on this subject at Bloomberg Law last week; I thought I'd reprint it, with Bloomberg's permission. The material on English and German law is Markus's contribution, and the material on ...