LIke a growing number of states, Illinois has a law that expressly allows mothers to breast-feed their babies in public, even if they do so in a manner that others…
A high-tech system of pinpointing the location from which gunshots have been fired and alerting police within a few minutes is now being used by nearly 70 cities.
Rudolph Tollefson is the only attorney in North Dakota who has had his law license suspended due to late child-support payments, according to the director of the state agency that…
Hotels, water parks, and other facilities with pools recently got another extension to comply with American Disability Act standards, the Associated Press reports.
The Philippine Supreme Court chief justice, accused of stealing money from the country and in the middle of an impeachment trial, yesterday stated that he did nothing wrong by not…
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling exempting the CIA’s waterboarding records and a photograph of Abu Zubaydah during his interrogation from disclosure under the Freedom…
The Americans with Disabilities Act does not preclude cities from shutting down medical marijuana dispensaries, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found yesterday.
A lawsuit that a lawyer aide filed against former Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell alleging that he wasn’t paid opened today in Delaware’s New Castle County Court of Common…
In a scenario that is increasingly in the news as the subject of internal investigations and legal claims, two police officers in Connecticut are set to go to trial in…
Already fired and prosecuted over his role in illegally intercepting worker emails directed to the state inspector general, the former chief counsel for the Ohio Department of Public Safety was…
A public taxing district board for a New Smyrna Beach, Fla., says the advice it got from an Orlando lawyer concerning compliance with the state’s Sunshine Law has proven expensive.
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