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Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you. Russia has paved the way for domestic airlines to appropriate hundreds of foreign-owned planes trapped in the country, after foreign registries suspended certification of planes leased by Russian airlines. Russian airlines currently operate about 515 foreign-ow...

David Reinert holds up a large “Q” sign while waiting in line to see President Donald J. Trump at a rally. Photo by Rick Loomis | Getty Images. It’s the MAGA battle cry heading into the primaries. “He’s a grandstanding RINO.”-Donald Trump about retiring Ohio Republican congressman Anthony Gonzalez who voted to impeach him for Jan 6. “Mike DeWine is the biggest RINO in America today.”-Jim Rena...

Sonoma County supervisors twice violated the state open-meeting law while working on new district boundaries. (CHAD SURMICK / The Press Democrat) The first paragraph of the Ralph M. Brown Act plainly states the purpose of California’s landmark open-meeting law: “In enacting this chapter, the Legislature finds and declares that the public commissions, boards and councils and the other pub...

Geraldshields11/Wikimedia Commons Georgetown Law School’s handling of racially charged faculty comments has been alarming. By imposing orthodoxy and groupthink, the school has been betraying its educational mission and thereby promoting structural racism. The school has had a run of embarrassing racial incidents lately, most recently when Franz Werro, a professor, could not recall an Asian Am...

Another Legalweek is in the books, and with that, the second edition (and first in-person ceremony) of ALM’s Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards! These awards celebrated the most innovative achievements of the past year from in-house legal departments, law firms, and the tech vendor and service partner community, culminating in a celebration at Legalweek New York on March 10. We’ve enjoyed r...

The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent across the U.S. beginning in 2023. The so-called Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 was approved by unanimous consent, but would still require House approval and President Biden's signature to become law. For those wishing for an end to annual clock shifting, this most recent push in Congress is perhaps better late t...

The US Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Democrats and Republicans in Congress struck a deal on a long-delayed $1.5 trillion spending bill that would fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year and provide $13.6 billion to respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (CNN)A massive spending bill that will fund the federal government through September -- as well as pro...

Highlights The "Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act" (the Law), included as part of H.R. 2471, a larger Consolidated Appropriations Act, was signed by President Joe Biden on March 15, 2022. The Law, which received bipartisan support, provides a basic framework for addressing the discontinuation of U.S. Dollar Libor (USD Libor) under federal law. This Holland & Knight alert provides a b...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law a $1.5 trillion government funding bill that includes legislation mandating critical infrastructure owners report if their organization has been hacked or made a ransomware payment. Biden signed the legislation during a White House ceremony that was attended by administration officials and top Democratic lawmakers, including including House Speak...

Tim Tai, Staff Photographer At a Thursday event at the Yale Law School, more than 120 students gathered to protest Kristen Waggoner, a controversial anti-LGBTQ speaker invited by the Federalist Society. At least four armed police were called to respond to the protest. Waggoner was invited by the Federalist Society, alongside Monica Miller, an associate at the American Humanist Association, to...