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The reason we all legitimately view the 2022 ABA TECHSHOW as a karmic bookend, is that time we all adjourned from Chicago, the pandemic was still a few weeks away. I remember sitting in the hotel moments before leaving for my flight chatting about how the pandemic was definitely coming but that the crisis would pass relatively quickly. I guess I was speaking in geologic time. But the bookend ...

Following the lead of California, Colorado, and Virginia, Utah is set to become the fourth state to pass a comprehensive privacy law. As of March 4, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (SB 227) cleared both houses of the Utah legislature. The UCPA closely resembles the Virginia Consumer Data Privacy Act, but with some interesting changes. The law applies to controllers or processors that do process...

While still relatively new, the laws and rule changes allowing college athletes to profit from use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) have already had dramatic impacts on the landscape of college athletics. On June 30, 2021, the NCAA issued an interim policy for college NIL, allowing student athletes to profit from use of their NIL with minimal restrictions. The NCAA’s rule change came ...

Idaho’s House of Representatives has passed a Russian-style bill that could jail librarians if they allow minors to check out “objectionable materials.” The bill is similar to Russia’s “gay propaganda” law that allows librarians, teachers, bookstore owners, and students to be prosecuted for disseminating anything that portrays LGBTQ people in a positive light or even broaches the subject. The...

Wooster City Council Monday, March 7, meeting WOOSTER – Certain traffic and misdemeanor ordinances were changed to comply with the updated state laws. The changes come after the state concluded a routine annual review of its laws earlier this year. Updates range from administrative to traffic and general offenses codes. Most changes were made to the traffic code, which saw amendments to pro...

The two-time Oscar winner stars on the new NBC series The Thing About Pam, and while chatting with Today's Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie on Monday, she revealed that during her hiatus from Hollywood, which was from about 2010 to 2016, she took law classes. "I needed to step away and kind of grow as a person and learn some things that were not related to work. I mean, that's one of my favorit...

On March 3, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021” (the Act) into law. Upon signing the bill, which had bipartisan Congressional support, President Biden proclaimed, “[w]hen it comes to sexual harassment and assault, forced arbitration shielded perpetrators, silenced survivors, enabled employers to sweep episodes of...

Books ready to be boxed and delivered as part of a books-to-prison initiative by the Lillian Goldman Law Library at the Law School. The Lillian Goldman Law Library has launched a books-to-prison initiative to establish libraries in jails and prisons across Connecticut. Julian Aiken, Assistant Director for Access and Faculty Services for the Law Library, was inspired to spearhead the effort af...

HELENA — A Helena sculptor is hard at work, preparing a new piece of art for the Montana Law Enforcement Academy. The MLEA Foundation commissioned Lyle Schwabauer to design and create a sculpture for the campus in the Helena Valley. He came up with a piece called “Safe and Sound.” It shows a city police officer, county sheriff’s deputy and Montana Highway Patrol trooper, finding a “missing bo...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Last week, the state Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law is to remain in place for at last the near future. The justices’ order overturned a previous decision made by a state judge that would have pulled the plug on the 2-year-old voting law next week. Justices will begin to hear arguments at 9:30 a.m. abc27 will be listening in and providing up...