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OVW hosts FY 2024 Healing and Response Teams pre-application session
The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) conducted a live web-based pre-application information session for its Fiscal Year 2024 Healing and Response Teams Special Initiative solicitation on May 24, 2024. During the presentation, OVW staff reviewed the initiative's requirements, discussed the solicitation, and allowed for a brief question-and-answer period.
Pembroke Pines woman charged with human trafficking multiple victims
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Office of Statewide Prosecution is charging a Pembroke Pines woman with two counts of human trafficking. According to a Pembroke Pines Police Department investigation, Elise Mizrachi recruited multiple women addicted to heroin and fentanyl and forced the victims into sex work, taking most if not all of the profits. Mizrachi controlled the victims by supplying them with drugs.
Attorneys general defend regulations protecting pregnant workers
Attorney General Henry takes action to defend protections for pregnant workers
California man arrested for making violent threats against North Carolinians
A Huntington Beach, California man was arrested today on federal charges related to sending threats to individuals and knowingly making false bomb threats. Kevin Dunlow, age 62, is charged in a complaint unsealed today in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of North Carolina following his arrest in California. He will have his initial appearance today, and his detention hearing will be set at a later date.
Commission opens applications for judicial vacancies in three districts
The Trial Court Vacancy Commission is currently accepting applications for judicial positions in the 4th, 19th, and 23rd Judicial Districts. The new positions will be effective September 1, 2024. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, June 11, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. CDT.
Illinois legislature passes bill expanding worker protections against employer retaliation
Chicago – Attorney General Kwame Raoul commended the Illinois General Assembly for passing legislation aimed at protecting workers from retaliatory actions by employers. The new bill, House Bill (HB) 5561, seeks to strengthen existing protections under state law and formalize the authority of Raoul’s Workplace Rights Bureau to investigate and hold accountable employers who engage in or threaten retaliation.
LaRita Weber announces retirement after nearly 24 years as clerk magistrate
Johnson and Pawnee County Clerk Magistrate LaRita Weber recently submitted her notice of retirement, effective July 5, 2024, after nearly 24 years of service to the Judicial Branch.
Manager sentenced for role in international drug trafficking conspiracy
A manager of a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization was sentenced today to 21 years and 10 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $1,339,500 for his role in an international drug trafficking conspiracy.
Texas doctor convicted in $70 million Medicare fraud scheme
A federal jury convicted a Texas doctor today for causing the submission of over $70 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary orthotic braces and genetic tests ordered through a telemarketing scheme.
AGs join forces against efforts undermining pregnant worker protections
Attorney General Kaul Joins Coalition to Defend Protections for Pregnant Workers
Griffin Lauds Unanimous State Supreme Court Win Upholding State Election Laws
Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement after the unanimous decision by the Arkansas Supreme Court in Thurston v. League of Women Voters, upholding four state election laws relating to absentee ballots, voter identification, and polling-place electioneering restrictions.
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Senior Fraud complaint form available on Attorney General's Office website
Suspected incidents of fraud aimed at older Oklahomans can now be easily reported to the Office of the Attorney General via an online senior fraud complaint form at oag.ok.gov.
PitchBook ranks Reed Smith among most active law firms in private equity transactions in over 15 categories for the first quarter of 2024
Global law firm Reed Smith has started the year as among the most active law firms for private equity transactions, according to research and analysis firm PitchBook’s Global league tables: Q1 2024.
Greenberg Traurig’s David C. Fixler Moderates NECA’s Power Markets 101 Panel
David C. Fixler, a shareholder in global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Energy & Natural Resources Practice in Boston, moderated Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA)’s Power Markets 101 virtual panel May 16.
Bradley Continues to Grow Long Term Care and Senior Housing Team with Addition of Brian Maas and Kimberly Zirkle
Bradley is pleased to announce the continued growth of its Long Term Care and Senior Housing team with the recent additions of Brian Maas and Kimberly Easter Zirkle.
Chrystie Holmstrom, Former Chief Legal Counsel of Alpine Summit Energy Partners, Joins Holland & Knight
Holland & Knight welcomes Chrystie Holmstrom as a partner in the Corporate – Mid South Practice Group in Nashville.
Attorney General James Stops Discriminatory Hiring Practices at DoorDash
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a settlement with online food delivery platform DoorDash for routinely rejecting delivery worker applicants with criminal histories without fair assessment, in violation of state human rights and corrections laws and the New York City Fair Chance Act.
House votes on two bills to restrict non-citizen voting
WASHINGTON – A House of Representatives committee has sent a bill to the full House that would bar non-citizens from voting in federal elections.
Cook County jury rejects claims that Zantac caused woman's colon cancer
Drugmakers GSK and Boehringer Ingelman said the verdict in their favor in the first ever trial on the question further exposes the questionable science behind the alleged testing they say falsely showed a link between cancer and ranitidine, the active ingredient formerly in Zantac