Last month, a federal judge in Texas ruled against a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires most insurers to cover preventive services that include screenings for cancer, diabetes and mental health. Kosali Simon, an expert on the Affordable…
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Proposed USCIS fee hikes may face pushback from employers
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has proposed a rule to adjust the filing fees for certain immigration and citizenship applications. Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School and co-author of a leading 21-volume immigration law series,…
IU researchers tackle the challenges of conducting intrastate policy surveillance
IU researchers tackle the challenges of conducting intrastate policy surveillance and find accessing county and municipal laws challenging in Indiana.
Law Professor Calls for End to Police Detaining People on the Ground
The video of a Black woman and four crying young girls face down and handcuffed in a Colorado parking lot was the last straw for University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Professor Larry S. Gibson. A recognized civil rights activist, historian, and political consultant, Gibson is calling for an end to the…
FSU political science researcher to examine law in time of COVID-19 crisis
By: Rob Nixon | Published: April 2, 2020 | 3:13 pm | SHARE: A Florida State University researcher and her colleagues have earned a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public support for the rule of law. FSU Associate Professor of Political Science Amanda Driscoll, the project’s co-investigator, said the team will examine the challenge that the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus presents to long-standing norms that support democratic order.