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March 10, 2022

Law Enforcement Recruitment Bill Backed - CBS Miami

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – Gov. Ron DeSantis’ request to dangle $5,000 bonuses as a tool to recruit law-enforcement officers from other states is heading to his desk. With little comment, the House voted 114-3 on Thursday to agree with changes the Senate made in a bill (HB 3) dealing with law-enforcement issues. READ MORE: The Senate voted 34-0 earlier Thursday, after changing the package ...
March 10, 2022

Law enforcement responds to reports of shooting along Hwy 101 in Atascadero - KSBY News

Copyright 2022 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. UPDATE (6:25 p.m.) - Southbound Highway 101 at Santa Barbara Rd. in Atascadero was briefly shut down as investigators searched for evidence in a reported shooting. The lanes were reopened to traffic by 6:25 p.m. Investigators walk along an empty southbound Highwa...
March 10, 2022

Law enforcement identifies person involved in 2017 unsolved murder - FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

After more than four years, investigators have a major new development in the unsolved murder of Jonathan O’Shaughnessy - it’s inspiring his mom to share details about the night of the shooting she’s never shared publicly. RICHFIELD, Minn. (FOX 9) - After more than four years of waiting for answers, Cynthia Kuntz feels like she's finally one step closer to knowing who killed her son, Jonathan...
March 10, 2022

‘Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law’ to launch in 2022 - FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - The intersection of the legal system and Black lives is the focus of a new initiative at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul. The Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law will launch later this year, and it's the first academic center of its kind in the nation. An emerging voice on social justice, Mitchell Hamline Law School Professor T. Anansi Wilso...
March 10, 2022

UCLA Law students work to help protect outdoor laborers from heat and pollution - University of California

Under legislation that UCLA Law students’ research helped shape, outdoor workers would get mandatory work breaks, increased monitoring for heat sickness, and access to cool water and shade structures when temperatures exceed 105 degrees Fahrenheit. California’s agricultural and other outdoor workers have always labored under hot conditions, especially in arid Southern California, but the effe...
March 10, 2022

New Jersey’s Safe Passing Law Takes Effect - The National Law Review

In August of last year, the New Jersey state legislature passed a bill intended to create safer conditions for bicyclists and pedestrians on New Jersey roads. The New Jersey Safe Passing Law adds additional requirements for drivers when passing cyclists, pedestrians, and those driving motorized scooters or wheelchairs. This new law took effect on March 1st, with a full education and public aw...
March 10, 2022

Judge Hears Arguments in Challenges Over New Election Laws - U.S. News & World Report

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Four laws the Republican majority in the 2021 Montana Legislature said they passed to make elections more secure actually enacted barriers that make it more difficult for some residents to exercise their constitutional right to vote, attorneys argued Thursday in seeking to block and eventually overturn the laws. The Montana Democratic Party, Montana Native Vote and youth ...
March 10, 2022

Are gas stations price gouging? Here's the law in New Jersey - New Jersey 101.5 FM

No matter what you may be hearing from other residents, and no matter how much you be paying per gallon, gas stations in New Jersey are not price gouging. The offense doesn't even exist in the Garden State when there is no state of emergency, which means gas stations in New Jersey could technically charge as high as they'd like, to make up for the rising costs they're facing due to the crisis...
March 10, 2022

State won't disclose name of Buffalo-area law firm that hired man charged with practicing law without a license - WGRZ.com

AMHERST, N.Y. — Andrew Schnorr, 39, of West Seneca was arraigned on Thursday in Amherst Town Court on charges of grand larceny, and practicing law without being admitted to the bar or being registered. The charges, announced by the New York State Attorney General's Office on Wednesday, are felonies serious enough to send Schnorr to prison if he is convicted. It is alleged that in July of 2019...
March 10, 2022

SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Weiss Law Investigates Whiting Petroleum Corporation - PR Newswire

NEW YORK, March 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Whiting Petroleum Corporation ("Whiting" or the "Company") (NYSE: WLL) in connection with the proposed merger of the Company with Oasis Petroleum Inc. ("Oasis") (NASDAQ: OAS). Under the terms of the merger agreement, the Company's sha...