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A Portage County man asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday to force Rootstown Township pay him $7,000 for 14 violations of the state’s open-meetings law. (The Ohio Channel) COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Portage County man asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday to order Rootstown Township to pay him $7,000 for 14 violations of the state’s open-meetings law, but Republicans and Democrats on the cou...

SANTA FE, N.M. – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law a bipartisan package aimed at combating crime and investing in public safety personnel across New Mexico. House Bill 68 was signed by the governor Wednesday. The bill will: Establish programs to recruit and retain law enforcement officers Allocate $50 million from the budget to establish an officer recruitment fund Strengthen penal...

Puerto Rico consistently faces challenges of inequity that often leave it at a disadvantage, and the ongoing bankruptcy process that has dominated the attention of the island has been no different — until now. With critical conflict of interest disclosure language missing from PROMESA, the law passed by Congress years ago to allow Puerto Rico to restructure its debt, it has been a challenge t...

Lawmakers have introduced new legislation in an effort to increase the number of green cards and eliminate backlog. U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who serves as the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, joined Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill) and four of their Senate colleagues in introducing the Resolving Extended Limbo for Immigrant Employees and Families...

(WFXR) — Cryptocurrency is growing and more people are getting their hands on this digital currency. There is a new bill that is heading to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s desk that could pave the way for banks across the Commonwealth to handle Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. On WFXR News at Noon, WFXR News’ Evan Johnson spoke with David Bieri an associate professor of economics at Virginia Tech ab...

Stopgap spending bills stalled rollout of new programs Transportation programs get big funding increases (Updates throughout to include additional reporting.) President Joe Biden’s signature infrastructure law would be fully funded after months of delay under a spending bill unveiled early Wednesday. New programs would be allowed to get off the ground and increased funding levels for this f...

Welcome to the March 2022 edition of the Political Law Playbook. Of particular note in this month’s edition is the release of a number of advisory opinions by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit of the Department of Justice (DOJ). The most notable of these newly-public advisory opinions focus on the registration exemption under FARA for individuals and entities that are engaged in...

Fog of War Professor Mike Schmitt has addressed the application of the right of self-defense to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This post adds comments on the application of the law relating to the use of force to the present conflict. Specifically, I address whether there is any other possible justification for the use of force by Russia on the basis of the protection of nationals, humanita...

When we last rapped about non-fungible tokens (NFTs), we focused on how the creators of the artworks that are sold alongside the alphanumeric codes that comprise the NFTs almost always maintain the copyrights for those artworks. And that the buyer takes ownership only of the code, which is then inscribed on the blockchain forevermore. The creator of the artwork can then exploit that artwork i...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York State police announced the arrest of 39-year-old Andrew Schnorr for allegedly practicing law without a license and defrauding people in Buffalo out of more than $20,000 in legal fees. He was charged with unauthorized practice of law and grand larceny in the third degree. He faces up to 2 1/3 to 7 years in state prison...