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The party bike at the Sea Shell Motel in Misquamicut has seating for 12, a big canopy and day-glo LED displays that, according to owner Tom Riley, "light up like a disco at night." It does not carry beer or wine, but unless Rhode Island lawmakers agree to make it street legal, this non-alcoholic variant of the "pedal pubs" popular elsewhere will be stuck in mothballs when visitors return to ...

(Getty Images) An Ohio Sunshine Law “bounty hunter” has taken aim at local government officials in the city of Hubbard and Johnston Township, accusing them of transparency violations in two separate civil lawsuits and seeking a monetary award from the courts. By reviewing the minutes of local government meetings, Portage County man Brian Ames discovers violations of Ohio’s Open Mee...

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A VTB Bank branch in Moscow. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer said it’s terminated its relationship with VTB Bank PJSC, just days after it represented the sanctioned Russian lender in a London courtroom. Freshfields, part of the Magic Circle of top U.K. law firms, moved on Monday to condemn President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. “We took immediate steps to terminate, suspend or decline...

University of Florida law student Volodymyr Boitchouk said he found out his brother Myroslav was stuck in Ukraine after receiving an endless stream of text messages from his family on Feb. 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine. (Regina Migell/WUFT News) University of Florida law student Volodymyr Boitchouk says he just wants his best friend – his brother, an American citizen and Ukrainian nation...

Meta’s associate general counsel Braxton K. Davis discusses the National Council on Patent Practicum, a nonprofit he founded, that was designed to increase the number of women and minorities within the patent profession. He later partnered with Meta to create the Patent Pipeline Program, to involve legal training for a future with more diverse patent attorneys. As a Black man, pursuing a care...

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t the only crisis causing devastation across America. The substance misuse and mental health epidemics have an annual death toll three times greater than the Vietnam War, and every five minutes, an American dies from a drug overdose. This crisis has only worsened throughout the pandemic. Unfortunately, our current system is built on health insurers profiting off thei...

New Actions Will Deliver Cleaner Air, Healthier Neighborhoods, and Better Transportation Today, Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing major federal actions that will expand clean public transit and school buses, reduce emissions from dirty diesel trucks, and create good-paying jobs. The Biden-Harris Administration will modernize public transit that connects people to their jobs, school, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)Jacquelyn Martin / Jacquelyn Martin 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 constitutio...

Firm created ‘environment of confusion, incompetence, and apathy’ Decision is latest in series of orders imposing sanctions Deighan Law LLC must return the fees it charged for 87 consumer bankruptcy cases in Alabama and pay a $500,000 fine, after a bankruptcy judge ruled that the firm’s attorneys performed incompetently and engaged in the unauthorized practice of law. The firm, also known a...