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The Maine Supreme Judicial Court recently issued its first opinion on the enforceability of contracts formed using a smartphone app. (Sarchi, et al. v. Uber Technologies, Inc., et al., 2022 ME 8) In a unanimous decision, the Court found that Patricia Sarchi, a user of Uber’s ride-sharing service, was not obligated to arbitrate her dispute with Uber, which arose from an Uber driver’s decision ...

Jefferson City, Mo. (KY3) - Bentley’s Law proposed by Missouri lawmakers would require someone who is convicted of drunk driving to pay child support if they kill a parent or guardian. Cecilia Williams knows that feeling all too well. Her son, his fiance, and their baby were killed by a drunk driver. She came up with the idea for Bentley’s Law. ”My son, Cordell Williams, and my soon-to-be dau...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of the nation’s top law enforcement officials have signed a letter released Monday urging the U.S. Senate to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. “As members of the law enforcement community, we write in recognition of Judge Jackson’s strong, effective and long-standing role in criminal justice issues,” wrote 63 officials from around the country. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to intervene in redistricting disputes in North Carolina and Pennsylvania ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. In both cases the Republican state legislature sought to block decisions issued by state supreme courts in both states based on the respective state constitutions. Within the last month, state courts in both North Carolina and Pennsylvania dre...

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the senior member of the Judiciary Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Judge Jackson's confirmation hearing starts March 21. If confirmed, she would be the court's first Black female justice. WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of the nation's top law enforcement officials have signed a letter...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of the nation's top law enforcement officials have signed a letter released Monday urging the U.S. Senate to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. “As members of the law enforcement community, we write in recognition of Judge Jackson’s strong, effective and long-standing role in criminal justice issues,” wrote 63 officials from around the country. ...

Brownstein forms practice to help clients navigate infrastructure law By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 03/07/2022 05:15 PM EST Presented by FIRST IN PI — BROWNSTEIN LAUNCHES PRACTICE TO HELP CLIENTS NAVIGATE INFRASTRUCTURE LAW: K Street’s top lobbying firm is the latest to form a dedicated practice to help clients access the hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending unlocked as a result of last year...

Black R.I. law student says deputy mistook her for a defendant  The Boston Globe

NEWARK, N.J. – A New Jersey man was convicted by a federal jury today of threatening to assault and murder federal law enforcement officers, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Frank Monte, 51, of New Jersey, was convicted following a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez in Newark federal court of three counts of threatening a federal law enforcement officer...

Wesley Bugg (from left), Treva Ludy, Mary Jackson, Kimarie Bugg, and Geneva Bibbs-Bugg are lawyers with the Institute for Justice. (Courtesy photo) A 2016 law made Georgia the only state in the nation that licensed lactation consultants in this way, and would have forced hundreds out of work, lawyers for the non-profit said.