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Seattle’s new law requiring hotel owners to pay workers health benefits should be tossed out for violating ERISA, an industry group told a Ninth Circuit panel Monday. SEATTLE (CN) — An ERISA industry group told a Ninth Circuit panel that a new Seattle law requiring large hotel owners to provide specific health benefits to employees should be struck down because it is preempted by federal law. The city ordinance makes hotels with 100 or more guest rooms provide full time workers with benefits equal to a gold-level policy on the state health exchange or provide equivalent payments directly ...

The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a pair of disputed Arizona election laws on Tuesday, teeing up its biggest decision about race and voting rights since 2013.

9th Circuit revives Oregon lawyers' freedom-of-association challenge to mandatory bar membership   Image from Shutterstock. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a First Amendment challenge to the Oregon State Bar's mandatory membership requirement. Ruling Friday in two cases brought by Oregon lawyers, the appeals court said the plaintiffs could not bring a free-speech challenge to mandatory fees. But the appeals court said the plaintiffs could pursue their claim that mandatory membership in a group that that engages in political or ideological activities viol...

An Oregon lawyer will get to argue that lawyers shouldn’t be required to join the state bar, in light of a 2018 statement the bar made condemning white supremacy that he says violated his First Amendment right to free association. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. (Photo credit: Sanfranman59/Wikipedia) (CN) — Can the Oregon State Bar require lawyers to maintain membership, even though it runs political columns in its monthly Bulletin that they might not agree with? It’s a question that the Ninth Circuit on Friday ordered a federal judge to consider. In its April ...

Yes: 79% No: 21% . The canons of medical ethics have long banned physicians from participating in torture. These proscriptions were explicitly laid out in the World Medical Association's Declaration of Tokyo (1975), the United Nations Principles of Medical Ethics (1982), and the United Nations Convention against Torture (1984). The American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics goes one step further, noting that "physicians must not be present when torture is used or threatened." The AMA code also warns that "physicians may treat prisoners or detainees if doing so is in their best intere...