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Placeholder while article actions load President Trump on Monday signed into law a new federal ban on animal cruelty, called the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act. The bipartisan bill, which passed the House and Senate earlier this year, will outlaw purposeful crushing, burning, drowning, suffocation, impalement or other violence […]

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Ten years ago, an FBI official impersonated an Associated Press reporter to lure and track a teenager suspected of sending in prank bomb threats to his school. To find him, the FBI agent, posing as a reporter, sent the teenager links to a supposed story he was working on, but […]

[ad_1] Wrongful termination, unpaid wages, physical and mental dangers at the workplace, or discrimination, Theory Law APC protects employees against inconsiderate employers. Los Angeles, California – Theory Law APC is a California law firm that specializes in employment law—protecting the rights of employees who have become victim to exploitation by […]

Not long after the widespread use of vaccines in the United States, drug makers began to be subject to increasingly successful and costly vaccine injury lawsuits. This engendered a growing concern that vital vaccine production and supply could be impaired. As a result, in 1986 Congress passed the National Childhood […]

[ad_1] Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A 2019 law aimed at cracking down on the revolving door of lobbyists at the Texas Capitol is ensnaring two recent legislators and prompting state ethics regulators to address […]

Related Practices & Jurisdictions The New York State Paid Sick Leave law (“NYSPSL”) and the amendments to the New York City Paid Safe and Sick Leave law (“ESSTA”) expanding employees’ paid sick leave entitlements will go into full effect on January 1, 2021. As we previously reported, NYSPSL went into effect on September 30, 2020 […]

[ad_1] CARBONDALE, Ill. — Fifteen high achieving juniors and seniors from colleges around the country will gain insight on legal careers and preparing for law school at the Southern Illinois University School of Law’s inaugural Diversity Prelaw Summer Institute, May 25-29 – part of SIU Carbondale’s commitment to diversifying the […]

  Overview Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year. Six out of 10 (61%) of all unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 (29%) of all pregnancies, end in induced abortion (1). Comprehensive abortion care is included in the list of essential health care services published by WHO […]

[ad_1] ALBANY — Republican candidate for governor Lee Zeldin at a recent campaign stop said he opposed the state’s Red Flag Law, which provides due process to remove firearms from people shown to be a threat to themselves or others. “We should not have red flag laws that have a — I […]

On Jan. 3, a targeted drone strike near Baghdad International Airport killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Killed along with him was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMFs), or Hashd al-Shaabi, and leader of the Iraqi militia Keta’ib Hezbollah. Reportedly, four other persons were also […]

[ad_1] In March of 2021, Jen Shah of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City fame was arrested on federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. It was alleged that Shah was the ringleader of a nationwide telemarketing scheme that scammed vulnerable populations such as the elderly. […]

[ad_1] Scottsbluff Police officers Andrew Soucie, Ron Miller and Tyler Webber bow their heads in prayer at the Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony on Thursday, May 19. JEFF VAN PATTEN/Star-Herald Dozens of law enforcement and corrections officers gathered in the lawn outside the Scottsbluff Police Department’s offices to pay their respects […]

[ad_1] Dana Remus will address 2022 graduates of the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law at commencement on Monday, May 23, at the Kimmel Cultural Campus (300 S. Broad Street).   At 10 a.m. the law school will celebrate […]

[ad_1] The court’s ruling reversed a June 2021 decision by the state Supreme Court that deemed the law “unnecessarily vague” and voided the ban in its entirety. A coalition of police unions brought the lawsuit against the city in 2020. New York Police Department officials have previously argued that chokeholds […]

Usman Mukhtar has been lately in the news for his currently airing drama serial, Hum Kahan Ke Sachay Thay. And while every other drama lover is cursing his character Aswad’s arc in the story, we are aware that Aswad is conflicted and unable to decide who to favour: the deceased […]

[ad_1] BALTIMORE — Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby violated the city’s ethics ordinance by indirectly soliciting for a legal defense fund that took donations from at least two city contractors, the city’s Board of Ethics said in a ruling Thursday that ordered Mosby to stop accepting money from the […]

[ad_1] On Saturday afternoon, a man grabbed a gun from his car, where he had two other weapons stored, and opened fire on shoppers in and around a Buffalo Tops Friendly Markets store, killing 10 people and injuring three more.  The suspected gunman, named as Payton Gendron, 18, from Conklin, […]

[ad_1] She called on Brad Little to call a special session to remove the three exceptions, including rape and incest, from Idaho’s current “trigger law” banning abortion. BOISE, Idaho — This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press.   Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who is running for governor, called on Gov. […]

[ad_1] The majority of Americans want a federal law making abortion legal, according to a new poll that follows the leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe vs. Wade. The poll from CBS News and YouGov showed 58 percent of U.S. adults favored making abortion […]

[ad_1] Rep. Anthony Brown, center, conducts a news conference with members of the Maryland congressional delegation to discuss a legislation to reform the long history of inequity in infrastructure in Baltimore, May 17, 2021. Credit – Tom Williams—CQ Roll Call/AP Rep. Anthony Brown, Democrat of Maryland, wants to be the […]

[ad_1] PHOENIX — Groups that killed a voter-approved tax to fund education in court now are seeking nearly $1 million in legal fees from initiative organizers and the state. And given the campaign committee has virtually no assets that could mean taxpayers — a majority of whom voted for Proposition […]

[ad_1] A new poll has found that 58% of Americans want a federal law passed that makes abortion legal in the U.S. The survey, conducted by CBS News and the polling company YouGov, was taken after a draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gutting Roe v. Wade was […]

[ad_1] Oklahoma has banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, a prohibition that went into effect immediately on Tuesday after Gov. Kevin Stitt signed the Texas-style bill into law. Abortion providers and advocates tried immediately to stop the law from going into effect, filing suit and asking the Oklahoma […]

[ad_1] KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – What happens to Roe v. Wade will have a big impact on both Missouri and Kansas residents. In Kansas, there’s a question on the August primary ballot that will become a much bigger deal. In Missouri, a law will go into effect automatically that […]