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Connecticut’s Minimum Wage Rises Again on January 1, 2027
Connecticut employers, mark your calendars: the state’s minimum wage will rise again on January 1, 2027. Connecticut’s minimum wage is adjusted each January 1 based on the Employment Cost Index change for the 12-month period ending June 30 of the prior...
Maine Amends Workplace Substance Use Testing Laws: Key Changes for Employers
Effective July 29, 2026, the amendments to Maine’s workplace substance use testing law (L.D. 2111) took effect. Those amendments significantly change how employers must administer workplace testing programs. Specifically, the new law revises testing procedures,...
DiToto Is a Total Mess
Our initial inclination was not to blog about DiToto v. Nevro Corp., 2026 WL 1425041 (D. Md. May 21, 2026), given that it was an adverse, poorly reasoned trial court level decision. But then we received an updated citation indicating that – for reasons...
OCC and FDIC Propose Targeted Amendments to Community Reinvestment Act Regulations: What Banks Need to Know
IntroductionOn July 31, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) published a joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing targeted amendments to their Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)...
Cruise Crime Report — Q2 2026: Carnival Leads All Cruise Lines as Crime Data Remains Underreported
The Department of Transportation (DOT) reported 50 crimes across all cruise lines in Q2 of 2026 (April 1–June 30, 2026). Carnival Cruise Line led all cruise lines in crimes with 20.The DOT publishes the cruise crime data quarterly, pursuant...
The Senate Confirmed Todd Blanche At 4 am. Nothing Good Happens After Midnight.
You know how your parents, trying to defend what seemed at the time an unreasonable curfew, used to say nothing good happens after midnight? Turns out that’s also true of the United States Senate. At approximately 4:17 am Saturday morning, the Senate confirmed...
The Law Schools With The Highest LSAT Scores (2026)
Though the LSAT’s status as the unquestioned gatekeeper of law school admissions isn’t quite what it once was, with schools increasingly embracing alternative pathways and greater flexibility in how they evaluate applicants, the rite of passage for would-be lawyers...
Trump Judge Rules SPLC Can’t Prove Vindictive Prosecution Without Evidence, Which She Also Won’t Let Them See
Before the DOJ brought criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Kash Patel called the civil rights organization “a partisan smear machine” and accused the entity of defaming hate groups. Because Kash Patel has never met a...
Samuel Alito Sees ‘Vultures’ Circling His Supreme Court Seat But Has No Plans To Retire
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Obviously I’m here for another term. — Justice Samuel Alito, in comments given to the Wall Street Journal, concerning his continuing tenure on the Supreme Court. NPR incorrectly reported on June 30...