Category: Community

9th Circuit Revives Challenge To Odd California Liquor Law

  The federal Ninth Circuit Court has revived a challenge to California’s law against compensating alcohol retailers for advertising products, saying that recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions conflict with that regulation. The lawsuit at issue involves Retail Digital… Read More

Balt. Lawyer Group: Freddie Gray Illustrates Civil Justice Issues

  A new Baltimore-based attorney’s group is referencing Freddie Gray in its push for free access to civil attorneys in some cases like child custody decisions and home evictions, the Baltimore Sun reports. Leadership of the Access to… Read More

NYT Offers Insight Into Obama’s Immigration Woes

A New York Times story is detailing how an influx of Central American refugees is complicating the Obama Administration’s immigration policies, including how building family detention camps to send an anti-immigration signal in 2014 has come back to… Read More

Obama’s ‘Clean Plants’ Order Headed For Fast Supreme Court Decision

Litigation over President Obama’s climate-change order, “Clean Plants,” is headed for an emergency decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. The plan requires a 32 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 and is being opposed by 25 states,… Read More

Gas-Fire Victim’s Mom Will Address Lubbock On Safety Proposal Progress

The city council agenda in Lubbock, Texas says that Becky Teel “… with the Brennen Teel Foundation will appear before the City Council to discuss Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing (CSST) and the purpose of the foundation,” but that’s… Read More