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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Edited News Release) – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed suit against the Missouri School Boards Association for alleged violations of the Sunshine Law. The Missouri Attorney General’s Office previously requested records from the Missouri School Boards Association (MSBA) related to its role in the October 4, 2021 memo from the Biden Administration and National ...

Outrage as state becomes first in US to pass ban modelled on Texas law that allows family members to sue abortion providers Idaho has become the first US state to pass an abortion ban modeled after a controversial Texas law that prohibits abortions after about six weeks or when a heartbeat is detected. The news comes with abortion rights under assault across the US – despite clear majority su...

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...

Gov. Tate Reeves screen capture Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill Monday to limit how race can be discussed in classrooms, and it became law immediately. “Contrary to what some critics may claim, this bill in no way, in no shape and in no form prohibits the teaching of history,” Republican Reeves said in a video posted on social media. “Any claim that this bill will somehow stop Miss...

A bill to address the rising use of methamphetamine, that was introduced by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and California Senator Dianne Feinstein, was signed into law on Monday. WASHINGTON, D.C. (KCRG) - A bill to address the rising use of methamphetamine, that was introduced by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and California Senator Dianne Feinstein, was signed into law on Monday. Under the law, th...

In Short The Situation: The conflict in Ukraine, and related sanctions imposed by governments across the world on an unparalleled scale, are causing severe impact on businesses with exposure to Ukraine and Russia. The Issue: Many English law contracts contain force majeure provisions that may suspend or excuse performance for acts of war or governmental actions in appropriate circumstances. I...

President Joe Biden is expected to sign into law the first bill that specifies lynching as a federal hate crime. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which Congress passed on March 7, enables the prosecution of crimes as lynchings if they are done during a hate crime in which the victim is injured or slain. A 2020 version of the bill set the maximum sentence as 10 years. The one Biden will sign...

Editor, The Beacon: For the past few weeks, I’ve been laughing at Tanner Andrews’ self-righteous and significantly misinformed rants concerning Florida’s new “Jim Crow” voting law. I am sure Mr. Andrews and I agree that all men and women are created equal, that voting is a fundamental right of citizens, that our elections must be free and fair, and that our elections must be secure from fraud...

On March 4, President Biden signed into law the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act. The new law invalidates pre-dispute arbitration agreements and class and collective waivers for sexual assault and sexual harassment claims, and it applies to any such disputes that arise after March 4, 2022. Background Beginning with the #MeToo movement in 2017, lawmakers ha...

FILE - Deborah Watts, a cousin of Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and lynched after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in her family store in rural Mississippi, holds a poster and taped thumb drive that allegedly has almost 300,000 signatures on a petition seeking a renewed probe of the 1955 lynching, March 11, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Legislation...