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Keeping Your Company’s Federal Contracting Options Safe in the Face of Pending BIOSECURE Act Legislation

FDA Law Blog

Background Section 2 of the House Bill outlines some of the historical background that spurred Congressional action here, including national security risks highlighted by U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) can also specify other equipment or services to be subject to the Act’s prohibitions.

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DOJ Names Nancy La Vigne to Head National Institute of Justice

The Crime Report

Prominent justice expert Nancy La Vigne has been appointed director of the nation’s pivotal agency in charge of spearheading new crime research. The NIJ, which funds physical and social science research, development and evaluation projects in all fields of criminal justice, awarded more than $3.7 Nancy La Vigne.

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Cannabis Advocates High On Recent Medical Marijuana Research Legislation

FDA Law Blog

Houck — In October, when pardoning those federally convicted of cannabis possession, President Joe Biden directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Attorney General “to initiate the administrative process to review expeditiously how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.” Federal Research.

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Police Departments Avoid Sharing Use of Force Information

The Crime Report

In 2019, only 27 percent of law enforcement agencies contributed information, covering 41 percent of all officers. For 2020, the total again was 27 percent of agencies, covering 42 percent of officers, the FBI’s website reports. In 2019, the number of agencies was slightly higher, 5,043 out of 18,514 agencies.

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The New Methane Emissions Charge: One (Limited but Important) Stick in the Inflation Reduction Act

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The IRA also provides billions of dollars for grant, loan, and similar programs to be administered by various federal agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for instance, has been allocated over $1.5 Still, the Congressional Research Service estimates that the methane emissions charge will raise around $1.1

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“Externalizing the Difficult Responsibility of Censorship”: Higher Education in the Censorship Triad

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While faculty and students once opposed any academic research supporting the military industrial complex, there has been no such opposition to researchers supporting a censorship system targeting dissenting views and supplying blacklists to government and corporate partners. by externalizing the difficult responsibility of censorship.”

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Guarding Against Loan Modification Scams: Watch Out for these Red Flags

Fordham Law News

2] You know you will soon receive the dreaded letter that your mortgage servicer has decided to initiate foreclosure proceedings. You do some research and learn that a mortgage loan modification is an agreement to change the terms of your loans, commonly employed by homeowners experiencing foreclosure. [4]. So, what to do?