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Filled with fury and impatient for change, thousands of Florida high school students and protesters rallied Wednesday at the state Capitol to demand action in the final weeks of the legislative session to curb the sale of assault-style rifles, the Washington Post reports. “Thoughts and...
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It hardly takes a criminologist to recognize that 2017 was an especially tragic year when it comes to deadly mass shootings. With 58 killed at a Las Vegas music festival, 25 gunned down during a church service outside of San Antonio, and eight people fatally...
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If you’re still printing out invoices, stuffing them into envelopes, affixing stamps and addresses, then sending them in the mail, you’re doing business the same way law firms did 100 years ago.
Unless your clients require actual paper, why continue this archaic practice when the alternatives...
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President Trump says he is “very strongly” favoring arming teachers and other school staff, but that won’t happen any time soon, even in states that would allow guns in schools, Politico reports. Lawmakers in at least half-a-dozen states — including Florida — are considering legislation...
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Yesterday the court doubled its opinion output for this term in argued cases. Adam Liptak reports on all four of yesterday’s opinions for The New York Times, and Nina Totenberg does the same at NPR. In Murphy v. Smith, the justices held 5-4 that courts...
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on February 21, 2018 that the Dodd-Frank Act’s anti-retaliation provisions protect only whistleblowers that make a report to the SEC, and do not apply to whistleblowers who report internally. The Court’s ruling, which resolved a circuit split on the question...