NRA Fails at Challenging Seattle Firearms Tax
Seattle successfully passes a tax on firearm sales within its City limits despite NRA’s efforts to block the tax. ...[Continue Reading]
Legislation
Some States Attempt to Block DraftKings and FanDuel
Daily fantasy sports are being labeled as illegal games of chance, not skill. ...[Continue Reading]
A better No Child Left Behind or another empty promise to our disadvantaged students?
President Obama signs new bill on December 10, 2015 that replaces the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind Act. ...[Continue Reading]
Concealed carry on campus: the threat or the solution?
With the rise in on-campus shootings across the United States, many colleges are changing their laws to allow students and faculty to carry guns on campus. ...[Continue Reading]
California Becomes Fifth State With Physician-Assisted Suicide Legislation
Should physician-assisted suicide in terminally ill patients be legalized? The California State Legislature has passed a bill saying that it can. What legal implications may arise? ...[Continue Reading]
Planned Parenthood continues to receive federal funding despite GOP’s continued attacks
Despite the fact that Planned Parenthood is prohibited by law from receiving federal funding to provide abortion services, anti-abortion Republican lawmakers threatened to shut down the federal government in order to defund the organization, which provides a variety of necessary health care services for women who are unable to afford them otherwise. ...[Continue Reading]
Will California’s Fair Pay Act make equal pay for women a reality?
Citizens of California are waiting to see if Governor Jerry Brown will sign Senate Bill 358, also known as the Fair Pay Act, into law to equalize pay between men and women. ...[Continue Reading]
Lawsuit over teen used as rape-bait can proceed
A federal appeals court allows a lawsuit against an Alabama school board to continue in regards to a 14-year-old female student who was used by a school employee in a plot to catch another student deemed to be an alleged sexual predator. ...[Continue Reading]
Proposed Overtime Regulation Changes May Positively Affect Many Americans: Will a Hard Day’s Work Actually Mean a Fair Day’s Pay?
Though there has been no change to the “duties test,” Department of Labor proposed overtime regulation changes may permit nearly five million workers in 2016 to have access to overtime protections. ...[Continue Reading]
Fifth Circuit rules strict Texas voter ID laws violate Voting Rights Act
A federal appeals court found that exceedingly strict voter ID laws in Texas violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 due to the laws’ disparate impact on minorities. ...[Continue Reading]
Think before you serve a drink—dram shop laws in North Carolina
Bars, restaurants, and social hosts can be held liable under dram shop laws for serving alcohol to intoxicated guests or customers that later cause an accident due to being intoxicated. ...[Continue Reading]
May I vote please?
The systematic change in North Carolina election laws and the lasting impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ...[Continue Reading]
Children in Massachusetts may not be calling “shotgun” anymore
Massachusetts introduces new legislation that will prevent children from sitting in the front passenger seats. ...[Continue Reading]
Second Circuit Rules Unpaid Interns Likely Not Employees Because of Educational Nature of Internship Programs
In an appeal to the Second Circuit, unpaid interns argue they are entitled to compensation, as they are employees – however, the Second Circuit rules that due to the educational nature of internships, in most cases, unpaid interns are not entitled to compensation based on a primary beneficiary test. ...[Continue Reading]
Police Worn Body Cameras: How the North Carolina House is attempting to address the concern of excessive force within law enforcement agencies
North Carolina currently has two bills in the House that attempt to remedy the current political turmoil between law enforcement and the community with the implementation of police worn body cameras. ...[Continue Reading]
