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Sentencing Project Trends Report Highlights New Criminal Justice Laws Across The Country 

The Crime Report

Oklahoma House Bill 4369 modifies the administrative parole process by allowing the possibility of getting off probation and parole early for someone within one calendar year of discharge. Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont have now joined Colorado, Nebraska and Utah in approving similar legislative language. .

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January Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters: Issues/Programs Lists; Digital LPTV Deadline; Audio Description Expansion; Children’s Programming, Webcasting Royalties; NCE FM Settlement Window; and More

Broadcast Law Blog

The Copyright Office held a public roundtable on December 9 to discuss how to change copyright law to offer greater protections to publishers, particularly news publishers (see the transcript of the roundtable discussion, here , and our summary of the proceeding, here ). See the Federal Register notice, here.

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Court schedules February arguments on student-loan relief, tech companies’ liability

SCOTUSBlog

The student-loan challenges are the highest-profile cases on the court’s February argument calendar , which was released on Monday morning. Nebraska , brought by six states. Nebraska (Feb. Share The Supreme Court will hear back-to-back oral arguments on Feb. United States (Feb. New York v. New Jersey (Feb. Brown (Feb.

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