A far-right Polish member of the European Parliament with a history of antisemitic statements disrupted a moment of silence ...

The right to asylum is a fixed component of German laws and values, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday in an ...

Schmidt (reversing the July 2023 panel decision); the full opinions are over 20,000 words long, so this just gives a flavor of the analysis: Oregon's conversational privacy statute prohibits ...

Hochul announced plans to spend $1 billion to revamp care, and change New York's involuntary commitment laws. She also called for making changes to Kendra's Law, which provides court-ordered ...

Certain divorce and child custody-related laws in India, as written and as applied, favour women. Moreover, Indian divorce law is statutorily so worded that an Indian court will forever have exclusive ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa put his name on many key laws in 2024, but there are still 18 laws are still waiting to be signed. Not all of the bills that have been signed have been welcomed—the ...

More protections for your credit score if you face medical debt? These are among the roughly 1,000 new laws hitting California starting the first day of 2025. If that sounds like a lot ...

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Scores of new California laws are going into effect in 2025 after Gov. Gavin Newsom took action on hundreds of bills that crossed his desk last year. Among the legislation Newsom signed into law ...

Gensler’s tenure, though instrumental in laying regulatory groundwork and case laws, drew heavy criticism for its reliance on enforcement-driven regulation. Across the Atlantic, the European ...

New laws taking effect on January 1 in four states would crack down on companies using child labor laws or violating already-existing laws, while one state loosened its child labor laws.