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ACLU seeks to block New Hampshire voter identification law

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Hampshire filed a complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief in the US District Court for the District of New Hampshire on Monday challenging the state’s new voter identification law. The legal action targets legislation requiring proof of U.S.

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Six Reasons Technology Is Important To Your Paralegal Career

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Numerous state jurisdictions have also adopted rules regarding ESI. Paralegals must be aware of their obligations to ethically and professionally assist attorneys under court rules. Several states have similar rules to Model Rule 1.1 Ethics and Professionalism. ESI Explosion.

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Fourth Circuit Overturns Conviction Of Retired Air Force Colonel For Using Racial Slur

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This includes Virginia state court rulings that the statute must be confined to speech that has “a direct tendency to cause acts of violence by the person to whom, individually, [the language is] addressed.” As the United States Supreme Court ruled in National Ass’n for the Advancement of Colored People v.

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“Supreme Court ruling recognizes same-sex adultery”

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“Supreme Court ruling recognizes same-sex adultery”: Mark Hayward has this front page article in today’s edition of The Union Leader of Manchester, New Hampshire reporting on a ruling that the Supreme Court of New Hampshire issued yesterday.

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Vermont dispatch: Proposal 5 would add reproductive freedom amendment to Vermont state constitution post-Dobbs

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On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. According to an October poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, 75% of Vermont voters say they will vote to adopt the amendment. Brooke Chmura is a 3L at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

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Produce over Politics: Whole Foods Fights for Right to Bar Political Advocacy in Workplace

JonathanTurley

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc.,

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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

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A new case on public funding and religious education. Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. Last year, in Espinoza v.