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WASHINGTON – The Methamphetamine Response Act, a bill introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), was signed into law yesterday. The new law, which passed the Senate in December and the House in February with broad bipartisan support, directs the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to implement a pl...

On this episode of Talking Sports Law, co-hosts John Wilson and Trevor Gates interview Justin Sievert, General Counsel for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL and their affiliated company Bold Events. Justin describes his path to the Jags, shares the story of his transition from private practice to in-house counsel, and provides his perspective on upcoming trends in the world of sports law.

House takes up Senate-passed bill opponents view as unconstitutional Matt Vogelsberg, chief deputy disciplinary administrator in the office that investigates lawyer misconduct, said a Senate bill restricting legal advertising was possibly unnecessary because only eight violations of advertising rules applicable to lawyers had been found in more than 5,300 complaints filed in the past six year...

Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Meta Platforms Inc. was fined 17 million euros ($19 million) for violating the European Union’s privacy rules by failing to prevent a series of data breaches on its Facebook platform in 2018. The Irish Data Protection Commission, the lead EU privacy watchdog for Meta, said it found that Facebook “failed to have in place appropriate technical and orga...

Ukrainian lawmakers attend a session of parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine February 23, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi LVIV, Ukraine, March 15 (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament voted on Tuesday to extend martial law for another 30 days from March 26, approving a bill submitted by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The war in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched what...

gebhardt & kiefer.jpeg On March 3, 2022, President Biden signed into law the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021,” which prohibits businesses from compelling their employees to arbitrate sexual assault and harassment claims. While the legislation only applies prospectively to claims arising on or after the enactment date (March 3rd), it covers a...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — Gov. Ron DeSantis gave a speech at St. Petersburg Collegiate High School. The event was a day after the legislative session, where a number of state education priorities were passed in both chambers of the Florida Legislature. The podium used at the event carried a sign reading “Florida: The Education State.” “If you look at all that we’ve done in education over ...

Amanda Frost worked as a litigator at Public Citizen and was a Fulbright Scholar before turning to academia full time. Courtesy photo/Illustration by Warren Craghead Amanda Frost, whose work has revealed untold stories in immigration and citizenship law, will join the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law this fall. Frost is currently the Ann Loeb Bronfman Distinguished Professo...

In the absence of a federal privacy law, privacy has been at the forefront of many states’ legislative sessions this year: Utah is poised to be the fourth state to enact comprehensive privacy legislation Florida came close to passing legislation when the State House advanced privacy legislation by a significant margin Other state legislatures have privacy bills on their calendars Against th...

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) (The Hill) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that will allow for foreign planes to be seized and used domestically as tensions grow between Russia and the international community over its inva...