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19 Jun 2024, 3:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
California is one of 16 states whose state constitution allows forced labor in prisons. [read post]
18 Jun 2024, 5:04 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
The New York state Legislature passed a bill earlier this month that would allow parents to block their kids from getting social media posts suggested to them by the platform’s algorithm. [read post]
18 Jun 2024, 10:07 am by Joe Mullin
  Other States Will Follow  In the past year, several other state legislatures have passed similar unwise and unconstitutional “online ID check” laws. [read post]
18 Jun 2024, 6:00 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
Iowa "Dissatisfied with how the United States Government is handling immigration, the Iowa Legislature decided to take matters into its own hands by enacting new legislation (known as Senate File 2340) that, among other things: (i) imposes criminal penalties under state law for certain immigration-related offenses; and (ii) requires state court judges to order noncitizens to return to the foreign countries from which they came. [read post]
17 Jun 2024, 10:33 am by Eugene Volokh
Clark, which allows plaintiffs' challenge to a Vermont regulation to go forward (denying defendants' motion to dismiss): Plaintiffs challenge [a] provision[] in Vermont Senate Bill No. 37 …. [read post]
15 Jun 2024, 6:31 am
In May 2024, the Delaware Senate proposed DGCL §122(18) to permit corporations to enter into agreements with shareholders that would allow Boards to transfer broad powers to shareholders, including the ability to restrict Board actions, pre-approve Board actions and require the Board to agree to take (or not take) specified actions, as long as the shareholder continues to own a specified number of shares. [read post]
15 Jun 2024, 6:31 am
In May 2024, the Delaware Senate proposed DGCL §122(18) to permit corporations to enter into agreements with shareholders that would allow Boards to transfer broad powers to shareholders, including the ability to restrict Board actions, pre-approve Board actions and require the Board to agree to take (or not take) specified actions, as long as the shareholder continues to own a specified number of shares. [read post]
14 Jun 2024, 7:52 am by Richard Frank
AB 460 passed the State Assembly in 2023, but did not receive a vote in the State Senate before the end of the 2023 legislative session. [read post]
14 Jun 2024, 1:23 am by kblocher@hslf.org
On the other hand, Iowa has long occupied the bottom third of states when it comes to animal protection laws, and its state legislature has gone to great lengths to favor and shield intensive confinement practices in agriculture over the last quarter century. [read post]
13 Jun 2024, 12:31 pm by Paul L. Singer
For instance, in the Land of Lincoln, the state’s proposed Junk Fee Ban Act gained momentum when it easily passed the Illinois House in a 71-35 vote but then never made it to the Senate floor. [read post]
12 Jun 2024, 1:17 pm by Jon L. Gelman
 "The work done by Assemblyman Sterley Stanley and Senator Linda Greenstein as well as the overwhelming bipartisan support in both houses of our legislature has not gone unnoticed by our membership. [read post]
11 Jun 2024, 6:51 am by Dan Bressler
” — “When Governor Kathy Hochul signed an amendment to the New York Penal Law this past fall, designating ‘wage theft’ as a form of criminal larceny, she and the State Legislature targeted ‘bad faith’ employers who violate New York’s Labor Law by improperly withholding timely payment of their employees’ earned wages. [read post]
9 Jun 2024, 3:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
Democrat Melissa Winthrow, the minority leader in the Idaho state Senate, said she never heard from the California governor. [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 10:08 pm by Steven Calabresi
We did not side with President Trump on January 6, 2021 because we did not want the GOP controlled state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona to declare Trump re-elected given the returns at the polls. [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 8:38 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  In states with Republican-dominated legislatures but Democratic governors, the Supreme Court could carve out an exception to its recent rejection of the "independent state legislature" theory and allow Trump's electors to be appointed.Could I be wrong about any or all of that? [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 8:07 am by Samantha M. Cira
California Senate Bill 1201: Surpassing the Federal CTA A few days before the Texas lawsuit, on May 23, 2024, the California Senate passed a bill, SB-1201, sparking additional interest and debate about enhancing corporate transparency at the individual state level as the federal level sees challenges. [read post]