As California grapples with budget issues and Arizona faces a shortage of lawyers, both states announced shifts to their licensure protocols, with ripples potentially impacting other jurisdictions.
A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked President Biden’s new student loan repayment plan, leaving millions of borrowers enrolled in the cost-cutting program in the lurch.
The country’s largest private provider of housing for unaccompanied immigrant children subjected some in its care to pervasive sexual abuse and harassment for almost a decade, the U.S. Justice Department is alleging in a lawsuit.
Eighty years after explosions ripped through the Port Chicago naval facility in California, killing 320, the secretary of the Navy has announced the full exoneration of African American sailors who were charged in 1944 with mutiny and refusing orders to return to work in dangerous conditions loading ammunition.
At the Ladies Lounge of Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art on the island of Tasmania, only one man is allowed inside: a butler, who serves the women, according to Kirsha Kaechele, the American artist who designed the lounge. On Tuesday, one of those excluded men argued before an Australian tribunal that the lounge violated anti-discrimination laws by keeping him and the rest of his gender out.
Special counsel Jack Smith has formally filed notice that he will appeal a Florida judge’s decision to dismiss Donald Trump’s 40-count indictment for allegedly mishandling classified documents and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.
Florida will adopt the NextGen bar exam starting in July 2028, becoming the 21st jurisdiction to use the new exam focused on assessing skills new attorneys need. The Florida Supreme Court approved the switch on Thursday.
To celebrate Disability Pride Month, the ABA Commission on Disability Rights has launched the #BeCounted campaign.
“I could write and I had analytical abilities, so I thought law school would be a good idea,” Philip Witte says. “I can’t say it was a pleasant experience, though.” It definitely was not as pleasant as sitting in an artist’s studio dreaming of cartoons.
An insurance company improperly denied a Minnesota trademark attorney her long-term disability benefits, a federal court has ruled.
