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US climate law is already turbocharging clean energy technology
Law Review 07/23/2023On a recent day under the July sun, three men heaved solar panels onto the roof of a roomy, two-story house near the banks of the Kentucky River, a few miles upstream from the state capitol where lawmakers have promoted coal for more than a century. ...
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Louisiana Senate passes bill banning gender-affirming care
Legal Compliance 07/15/2023A controversial bill — that at one point had been presumed dead — banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths in Louisiana was passed by the Senate on Monday and is likely to reach the governor’s desk in the coming ...
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Tennessee can enforce ban on transgender care for minors, court says
Law Review 07/08/2023Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth can go into effect — at least for now — after a federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily reversed a lower court ruling.Last month, a district court judge in Tenness...
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Judge limits Biden administration in working with social media companies
Legal Compliance 07/05/2023A judge on Tuesday prohibited several federal agencies and officials of the Biden administration from working with social media companies about “protected speech,” a decision called “a blow to censorship” by one of the Republi...
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Judge allows North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law to take effect
Legal Compliance 07/02/2023A federal judge ruled on Friday that nearly all of North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law scheduled to begin this weekend can take effect, while temporarily blocking one rule that doctors feared could expose them to criminal penalties.Th...
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Court sides with Jack Daniel’s in dispute with makers of dog toy
Legal Compliance 06/26/2023The Supreme Court on Thursday gave whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s reason to raise a glass, handing the company a new chance to win a trademark dispute with the makers of the Bad Spaniels dog toy.In announcing the decision for a unanimous court, Ju...
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Federal court sides with lobster fishers in whale protection case
Legal Compliance 06/17/2023A federal appeals court has sided with commercial fishermen who say proposed restrictions aimed at saving a vanishing species of whale could put them out of business.The fishermen harvest lobsters and crabs off New England and oppose tough new restri...
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Law Firm Website Design Companies : The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
National Legal News 06/14/2023At our law firm's most recent staff meeting, I was assigned the task of finding a law firm website design company for creation of a website for our firm. I've had previous experience researching companies online and I thought it would be simple to tu...
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Families sue to block Idaho law barring gender-affirming care for minors
Legal Compliance 06/03/2023The families of two transgender teenagers filed a lawsuit Thursday to block enforcement of Idaho’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors.The ban, which was signed into law in April and scheduled to take effect in January 2024, violate...
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Federal appeals court overturns 1991 death sentence in Fresno double murder
Legal Compliance 06/02/2023A federal appeals court in a rare move overturned the death sentence of a man who was convicted of robbing and killing two people in Fresno in 1988, saying prosecutors knowingly presented false testimony from a key witness.The Ninth U.S. Circuit Cour...
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Families sue to block Idaho law barring gender-affirming care for minors
Legal Compliance 06/01/2023The families of two transgender teenagers filed a lawsuit Thursday to block enforcement of Idaho’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors.The ban, which was signed into law in April and scheduled to take effect in January 2024, violate...
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Tunisian court releases prominent radio director from prison
Legal Compliance 05/29/2023Tunisia’s most popular private radio station said an appeal court has allowed its director to be released on bail from prison, after more than three months of detention.Mosaique FM announced Wednesday that its director, Noureddine Boutar, was f...