This past Friday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a new law that forbids homeowner associations (HOAs) from prohibiting home-based businesses. HOAs are still within their rights to regulate parking, noise, nuisances, and the aesthetic features of a home-based business. But they can no longer flatly ban them. According to the...

Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has quietly ended a fast-track clemency process for drug-free school zone offenders who were serving outdated sentences. Lee announced the initiative in 2021, after the Tennessee Legislature passed reforms to the state's harsh drug-free school zone laws. But those reforms were initially not made retractive, leaving more than 300 people serving sentences that were no longer on the books.

In P.D. v. Sullivan (S.D.N.Y.), plaintiff alleges:. New York State Mental Hygiene Law 9.39 is used to admit individuals to a hospital solely for emergency observation and evaluation as a person "alleged" to have a mental illness. An admission under MHL 9.39 is not a formal adjudication that an individual suffers from a mental disease or defect. NYS Office of Mental Health Transmission of Mental Health Records to NICS. New York Mental Hygiene Law 7.094 authorizes the Office of Mental Health (OMH) to collect, retain, modify, or transmit data or records for inclusion in the NICS system for the purpose of responding to NICS queries regarding attempts to purchase or otherwise take possession of firearms, as defined in 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(3)….

April 15, 2024, was admitted students day at Northwestern University. Student protestors took advantage of that day to, well, protest. As the Daily Northwestern reported, "Demonstrators outside Sargent and Allison handed out flyers that welcomed admitted students to what they called the 'real Northwestern' around noon." The leaflet handed out by protesters accused Northwestern of "funneling Jewish students into Hillel, the Zionist 'foundation for Jewish life.'"