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Attorney Dan Horowitz, after an appeals court in California ruled that prisoners can legally possess -- just not consume -- marijuana. That, however, doesn't stop prisons from setting rules that ban possession.
"There is something to upset everyone in the IRS rule."
Transportation and land-use agencies often don't work with the same data as economic development offices. A new tool aims to bridge that gap.
Immigrants make up a quarter of the long-term care workforce, which struggles with high turnover. Without them, shortages could worsen and make it harder for people to age at home.
State officials note that drug abuse problems seldom involve only one substance.
Surrounded by dozens of lawmakers and abortion rights advocates, Pritzker signed the controversial legislation that he said will ensure that Illinois is "going to be there for women if they have to be refugees from other states."
Cities and states have the tools to help shape a future that is both clean and equitable.
Gov. Janet Mills signed legislation Wednesday that would allow terminally ill patients to obtain prescriptions for lethal doses of drugs, making Maine the latest state to legalize medication-assisted suicide.
Marijuana tax, license and fee revenue has reached $1.02 billion, and marijuana sales over $6.5 billion, the Colorado Department of Revenue announced in a news release.
Starting in 2020, it will be illegal for employers in Nevada to refuse to hire applicants based on positive results for pot in pre-employment drug testing, thanks to a new law signed by Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat.
Record rainfall has led to the persistent flooding this year.
The 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned criminal convictions for five Sacramento defendants who had been caught with marijuana in their prison cells.
Tenants who comes to court with an attorney. Landlords, meanwhile, almost always have legal representation.
Brigid Harrison, a political scientist and law professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where a feud between Phil Murphy, the Goldman Sachs executive-turned-governor, and legislative leaders in his own party has stunted legislative progress.
A record number of asylum seekers are crossing the border into the United States, and the U.S. Border Patrol does not have enough holding cell space for families.
The lawsuit argues that the merger would create a company that become the largest wireless company in the U.S., with the effect of "diminished competition, higher prices, and reduced quality and innovation."
Although the rates of the so-called deaths of despair are up nationally, the report's investigators were particularly struck by regional differences in the rates.
Democrats, in control of both the Senate and Assembly for the first time in nearly a decade, have spent weeks mulling over a nine-bill package that would radically reform regulations in favor of renters.
In September, major hotel brands -- including Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt -- agreed to provide the buttons to their employees after hotel workers with the union Unite Here held protests across the country calling for panic buttons and other safety measures.
After winning the special election, Morrissey said voters were not worried about the drama that landed him in jail.
Supporters of the bill said the measure is necessary to protect religious freedom.
The West Virginia Senate passed a bill that would not only punish teachers for protesting but also includes a charter school provision they recently fought to defeat. The House could vote on it as early as Monday.
Alabama Republican state Rep. Steve Hurst, who introduced a bill just signed into law that makes "chemical castration" a parole requirement for sex offenders whose victims are younger than 13. Critics believe that violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Deadline that a judge gave Missouri to officially deny or grant a license renewal for the state's only abortion clinic.
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The governors of Kentucky, New Jersey and West Virginia face different controversies, but they're all wealthy businessmen who had never before held elected office.
Amid concerns over "fake" exemptions, California is debating a bill that would make public health officials sign off on them like they do in other states. Doctors support the legislation, but the Democratic governor has criticized it.
A staunch defender of abortion rights and Maine's first female governor, Janet Mills introduced the bill this year and supported a similar measure last legislative session when she was serving as attorney general.
The treatment consists of taking a medication to suppress or block the production of testosterone.
A new state law allowing Nevada to test out a limited marijuana banking system is expected to bring some relief to the state's booming cannabis industry where dispensaries and other businesses are forced to deal in cash.
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