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Angela Onwuachi-Willig is one of the country’s leading scholars of race and the law, but in a letter addressing her students after the killing of George Floyd, she confessed that she had struggled over what she would say to them. As a Black woman and a law school dean the first dean of color at Boston University’s School of Law and first Black woman to lead a top-20 law school Onwuachi-Willig wrote that she wondered if she
could say anything publicly, “imagining the backlash when certain words come out of my Black mouth.
“Perhaps surprising to some of you, racism regularly disempowers the seemingly powerful dean,” wrote Onwuachi-Willig, who was appointed as dean, and a professor of law, in 2018.
Lawsuit seeks stop to unnecessary placements in N.H. nursing homes
Published: 1/12/2021 12:59:09 PM
Some of the neediest people in New Hampshire are being unnecessarily institutionalized. That’s according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Jan. 11.
The suit, filed by New Hampshire Legal Assistance, Disability Rights Center – New Hampshire, AARP Foundation, and the Manchester office of Nixon Peabody LLP, pertains to New Hampshire residents who depend on the state to provide them with Medicaid-funded long-term care and the state’s failure to properly administer its Choices for Independence (“CFI”) Medicaid waiver.
The suit alleges that New Hampshire’s failure to deliver CFI services places a class of individuals at risk of unnecessary and dangerous institutionalization in long-term-care facilities.
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Indiana, like every other State, has adopted a Right to Farm Act to “reduce the loss to the state of its agricultural resources by limiting the circumstances under which agricultural operations may be deemed to be a nuisance.” Indiana Code § 32-30-6-9(b) (“RTFA”). The RTFA limits the availability of state-law nuisance actions with respect to agricultural operations.
The Plaintiffs’ residential properties are located in rural Indiana near land owned by a family of second- and third-generation farmers who decided to convert land that had been historically used to grow row crops to a state-of-the art concentrated animal feeding operation (“CAFO”) for raising 8,000 hogs. The farmers obtained the necessary zoning changes, construction and operation permits, and environmental permits to build two 33,500 square foot buildings with ventilation fans, slatted floors and concrete pits to store liquid waste and began o
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Should I get the COVID-19 vaccine? This question probably has been on everyone’s minds these days.
Governor Ned Lamont revised the COVID-19 distribution. He is not calling it phases any more but now it will be based on age according to Middletown Acting Director of Health Kevin Elak.