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Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- This is an awful time for a rate hike, as Illinois families struggle to pay their utility bills amid the COVID-19 public health crisis. Our legal team will dive into Amerens rate-hike filing, and we will challenge every penny of wasteful spending. At the same time our policy team in Springfield will continue to fight for the Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA)—and Amerens $64 million rate-hike request just underscores the ...

Rhea Tregebov on how amending a 2012 ‘fair dealing’ provision could help secure a brighter future for authors.

Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- ComEds $51 million rate-hike request is bad timing, as an unprecedented number of consumers struggle to pay their utility bills during the pandemic. Our legal team will study ComEds rate-hike filing from top to bottom and we will challenge every penny of wasteful or unnecessary spending in the companys proposal. ComEds  rate-hike request underscores the urgency of passing the Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) this year. C...

As states across the country join the growing trend of decriminalizing and legalizing marijuana, the implications for employers have become more relevant than ever.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: With the dramatic expansion of e-commerce in automobile sales in recent years, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, many now predict that this shift to online will create a permanent change in automotive retailing and in consumer shopping preferences. The shift to digital and online retailing and advertising, coupled with the explosion of social media as an important means of consumer outreach and advertising, means automakers ...

Immigration bills get Thursday vote but still face hurdles in becoming law Legislation addresses dreamers and a pathway to citizenship and last updated 2021-03-16 16:05:11-04 WASHINGTON — Both Monica Camacho Perez and Norma Irene Alvarez, dreamers who we recently met, believe the time for action is now. "I was brought here at the age of 7," Perez, a DACA recipient who works in Baltimores school system, said. "Ive been told to go back and dream," Alvarez said from a picnic table in El Pa...

Shacked with heavy-handed regulation from the 19th century and subsidies to other modes of transportation, America’s railroads were failing.

bdunlap@newsandsentinel.com PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Commission will hold a hearing Monday to determine if it should rescind a decision made recently to grant a variance for a property owner outside Williamstown to operate a video lottery establishment. The commission has scheduled the matter for 9:30 a.m. Monday, March 8. County officials took additional questions Thursday from a couple of residents who appeared before the commission earlier this week and also conferred with Wood Count...

The Trademark Reporter has published its latest Annual Review of U.S. Trademark Cases: " The Seventy-Third Year of Administration of the Lanham Act of 1946," by Theodore H. Davis, Jr. and yours truly, John L. Welch. (download pdf here). In his Introduction, Ted Davis calls this "a time of great reckoning in United States trademark and unfair competition law." The Supreme court is accepting trademark cases at an unexpected rate, and Congress has enacted the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 ...

CHARLESTON — Democratic leaders in the House of Delegates hope to build on West Virginia’s successful primary and general election last year with a “total