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Collier commissioners are on the fence over a proposed ordinance meant to give tenants a timely heads up before a rent increase. The ordinance would require landlords give tenants a 60-day notice if their rent will increase more than 5%. Commissioner Burt Saunders asked the board at its April 15 meeting to consider adopting the new law. The ordinance would apply to both leases with a specifi...

Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Law professors and Jewish groups have each filed separate briefs urging the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to overturn a January ruling finding Texas’ anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) law unconstitutional. The law, which bars the state government from entering contracts with those who boycott Israel, was declared a violation of a...

By Yacob Reyes, PolitiFact reporter Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill to repeal a decades-old agreement that allowed the Walt Disney Company to operate as an independent government around its 25,000-acre theme park complex. The April 22 move came after Disney, the state’s largest employer, voiced opposition to legislation barring classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender id...

Kentucky's new "omnibus" abortion law went before a federal judge Monday who is deciding whether to issue a preliminary injunction against the law she already has temporarily blocked. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings, in a courtroom filled with supporters and opponents of the law, indicated she would not rule immediately and asked those present to be mindful that the subject "evoke...

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - A retired New York Police Department officer was found guilty on Monday by a federal jury of assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Thomas Webster, 56, of the village of Florida, New York, was found guilty in D.C. of five felonies and one misdemeanor for his actions on January ...

ATLANTA, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) is pleased to announce that Martin Futrell of Witherite Law Group/1-800-TruckWreck has successfully achieved Board Certification as a Truck Accident Law advocate. The NBTA was formed out of a strong conviction that both the law profession and its clients would benefit from an organization designed specifically to...

Alaa Hajyahia Yale Law School student Alaa Hajyahia will study anthropology at the University of Cambridge as the recipient of a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Hajyahia, an Israeli citizen, was chosen in the international round of the competition. She joins two American citizens with Yale ties — Yale senior Jennifer Miao ’22 and alumna Maya Juman ’20 — who were selected in the U.S. ...

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - A retired New York Police Department officer was found guilty on Monday by a federal jury of assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Thomas Webster, 56, of the village of Florida, New York, was found guilty in D.C. of five felonies and one misdemeanor for his actions on January ...

Last fall, the Niagara County Legislature approved up to $3 million in American Rescue Plan funds for the new building on the NCCC campus. SANBORN, N.Y. — Plans are moving forward for a new building on the Niagara County Community College (NCCC) campus that will house the county's new Law Enforcement Academy. Last fall the county legislature approved up to $3 million in American Rescue Plan ...

Gov. Janet Mills has signed a law legalizing sports betting in Maine and giving the state’s tribes exclusive rights to conduct online wagering. The law was the result of negotiations between the Mills administration and the leaders of Maine’s tribes, which comprise the Wabanaki Confederacy. It allows Maine’s existing casinos to conduct in-person sports betting, while the tribes have sole acce...