Tallulah Belle Willis, the 17-year-old daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, had a brush with the law last night over alcohol … law enforcement sources tell TMZ.Read More…
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WASHINGTON — A progressive organization is targeting employees at the law firm King & Spalding with an online campaign aimed at preventing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) from using taxpayer money to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (…
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed a six-month spending bill Friday that cuts more than $38 billion from the current budget. The legislation averted a government shutdown and was the result of intense negotiations between the White …
ATLANTA — The Georgia Legislature has passed an immigration bill that contains some parts similar to an Arizona law being challenged in court.Republican Gov. Nathan Deal must sign it to make it law. His office on Thursday would not say…
WASHINGTON — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) is backing off a controversial immigration law styled after Arizona’s SB 1070. Daniels announced Tuesday that he wants the bill’s enforcement measures to be retooled to go after employers, rathe…
— Here is a look at legislation and debate about face-covering Muslim veils and Muslim headscarves in various countries:_ FRANCE: France on Monday became the first country to enact a law designed to forbid face-covering veils such as the n…
Democrats in Wisconsin say they have collected sufficient signatures to recall state Senator Dan Kapanke, a Republican, over his vote to restrict collective bargaining rights for state workers, the Lacrosse Tribune reports.Kapanke is one of …
Before the law allowed senior criminal justice major Sean Langan to drive, smoke or drink, he knew how to safely fire a gun.Read More…
About 2,000 undergraduates, graduate students, law students, mock trial high school students and interested adults crowded into Zellerbach Hall Wednesday evening to witness Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor serve as…
WASHINGTON — Democrats defeated a Republican effort to overturn health care reform on Wednesday when they blocked a repeal amendment from being added to an unrelated bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration. The symbolic amen…
NEW YORK — Jonathan Askin is sporting a long leather trench coat and a shaved head as he enters his first tech meet-up of the night. On the second floor of SoHo’s Scholastic building, the congregation is already underway. A table at the bac…
WASHINGTON — Back when the big health care law was little more than a dream, a prominent figure spoke out against the idea of forcing people to get health insurance. He said that would be like solving homelessness by passing a law maki…
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration pushed back forcefully on Monday afternoon against a Florida judge’s ruling that its signature health care law was invalid, calling the judgment a legally “dubious” reading of the law.In an interview wi…
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will teach at the University of California-Berkeley this semester, the school announced today.Granholm and her husband, leadership coach Daniel Mulhern, will teach in the schools of law, business and pu…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, described just last week by a Washington law professor as “the first real celebrity justice” for his controversial public pronouncements, will come to Capitol Hill on Monday to lecture about constit…
FRESNO, Calif. — A trial court judge in central California has thrown out key sections of a state law restricting handgun ammunition sales, barring authorities from registering bullet buyers’ thumbprints on the grounds that it would be…
WASHINGTON — As congressional Republicans ready themselves for a largely symbolic effort to repeal President Obama’s health care reform law, at least one former GOP leader is urging them to drop the charade and build on the legislation inst…
WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says the new health care law is getting in the way of job-creation and vows Republicans are committed to repealing it.Cantor tells CBS’s “The Early Show” the GOP isn’t retreating from its …
MADRID — Tapas bars – the noisy and bustling Spanish success story that combined delicious morsels with good wine and often a cloud of cigarette smoke – are now smoke-free. So are restaurants, discos, casinos, airports and even some ou…
SAN FRANCISCO — Three military veterans who were discharged under the law that prohibits gays from serving openly in uniform sued the government Monday to be reinstated and to pressure lawmakers to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” la…
HAYDEN, Idaho — A white separatist drew complaints from neighbors and a visit from law enforcement officers after building a snowman shaped like a member of the Ku Klux Klan on his front lawn.Kootenai County sheriff’s deputies told Mar…
As the Obama administration presses ahead with the health care law, officials are bracing for the possibility that a federal judge in Virginia will soon reject its central provision as unconstitutional and, in the worst case for the White Ho…
Breastfeeding Laws
A friend asked me today about a breastfeeding law in another state. I was able to quickly look it up online with the use of this chart. There is also a map version…Read Full Post
On Monday, the Obama administration waived sections of a law meant to prevent the recruitment of child soldiers in Africa, paving the way for new military cooperation with four countries with poor human rights records — despite their use of…
ROME — Just how mini can a miniskirt be?If the mayor of a small Italian town has his way, law enforcement officials, and not fashion gurus, will be the ones to decide.Read More…
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For more and more seniors, retirement doesn’t mean a debt-free life of leisure. An increasing number of Americans aged 65 and older are declaring bankruptcy, according to a recent study by John Pottow, professor of law at the University of M…