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The Oklahoma State Capitol building. The Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate has approved a half-dozen anti-abortion measures, including a Texas-style abortion ban that allows private lawsuits against those who perform abortions. The full Senate approved each of the bills on Thursday and sent them to the House, where they're likely to pass. Oklahoma's Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt has said he...

NEW YORK, March 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of military veterans who were issued 3M earplugs between 2002 and 2015 as standard personal protection can still file for compensation. What the military didn't know is that a design defect did not allow the earplugs to sit properly in the ear and did not provide the necessary protection. As a result, more than 2 million military members now ...

Legislators applaud Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee as he delivers his State of the State address Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. In October, Lee signed a bill into law that made it next-to-impossible to institute mask mandates in Tennessee. The Associated Press As local mask mandates rapidly fall by the way, public health officials fret that restrictions placed on them during the pandemic...

The ruling by the all-Republican court is the latest defeat for Texas abortion providers, which have now lost at both the U.S. Supreme Court and the state’s highest court since a ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy took effect in September. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the nation’s toughest abortion law to remain in place in a ruli...

Proposed ‘Miya’s Law’ aimed at increasing physical safety for renters A bill named for a 19-year-old South Florida native and a college student in Orlando is on its way to the State Senate Friday for a full vote. SB 898/HB 577, Miya’s Law, passed the State House unanimously on Thursday and, if it receives enough support from the Senate, it will be sent to Governor Ron DeSantis for approval. M...

Jackson Lewis Law Firm Logo Due to a surplus in the District of Columbia’s Universal Paid Leave Fund, the number of weeks of paid leave available to D.C. workers under D.C.’s Universal Paid Leave Act will significantly increase on July 1, 2022. Currently, the law provides for a maximum of: 8 workweeks of parental leave; 6 workweeks of family leave; 6 workweeks of medical leave; and 2 wo...

Jul 18, 2020; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; A general view of Rogers Centre during a Toronto Blue Jays intrasquad game. Mandatory Credit: John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports 2022-03-11 16:39:56 GMT+00:00 - Canadian law prohibits unvaccinated players on visiting teams from playing the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre in Toronto. Sportsnet reported Tuesday that MLB players who haven't received COVID-19 v...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas Supreme Court dealt a final blow to abortion providers’ federal challenge to the state’s latest abortion restrictions Friday. The court ruled that state medical licensing officials do not have authority to enforce the law, which bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnan...

In this episode, I speak with Sahar Aziz, author, and Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. Sahar shares how she first became interested in her book, The Racial Muslim. She details some historical examples of how the book’s hypothesis is supported and discusses how far back the ideas go. Sahar also talks about the dichotomy between belief in the First Amendment and how that squares away in ...

March 11 (Reuters) - Texas's high court on Friday effectively ended a challenge by clinics to a state law that banned most abortions in Texas by ruling that state officials including those tasked with doctor licensing have no role in enforcing the law. The Texas Supreme Court ruled that only private citizens, not state officials, can enforce the law known as SB8 by suing anyone who performs o...