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Several Colorado cities are suing the state over a new law that would keep them from collecting sales and use tax on building materials for public schools.

HB22-1024 passed the legislature this year with bipartisan support in both chambers. Gov. Jared Polis signed it into law in April and it is slated to go into effect in August. In short, lawmakers said they wanted to keep taxpayers from paying extra on school buildings.

“Most times you levy a tax on yourself to build the school and pay off the bond,” sponsored Rep. Shannon Bird, a Westminster Democrat, said. “If there’s another tax on that, you’re now taxing yourself to pay off another tax over 25 or 30 years, and with interest.”

She noted that a sales tax of even just a few percentage points can add millions to projects. A 4% sales tax on $25 million worth of building material

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically change how federal elections are conducted. At issue is a legal theory that would give state legislatures unfettered authority to set the rules for federal elections, free of supervision by state courts and state constitutions.

The theory, known as the “independent state legislature theory,” stems from the election clause in Article I of the Constitution. It says, “The times, places

Newsom signed the law just as the US Supreme

This is a MedPage Today story.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade, doctors across the country are facing an array of legal questions and concerns that are so new and uncertain they once seemed out of the realm of possibility, according to experts.

From determining whether they can provide care when the life of the mother is at risk and whether they must report a patient for a self-induced abortion, to considering how to code certain medical treatments and how to avoid allegations of aiding and abetting, doctors – – and other healthcare providers and staff — are finding themselves caught in a precarious legal framework that is still in flux.

“It is a horrible situation to put doctors in, who really just want to help patients,” Jessie Hill, of Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, told MedPage Today.

Jul. 2—Georgia State University’s College of Law conferred degrees to more than 150 students at the end of the spring 2022 semester. Law graduates were honored during the college’s hooding ceremony on May 13 at Center Parc Stadium.

Local Law graduates were:

— Daniela Hoolihan of Smyrna (30080), who earned a Master of Laws degree in the Foreign Bar Track concentration

— Narges Nekooei of Atlanta (30339), who earned a Master of Laws degree in the Foreign Bar Track concentration

— Dagem Araya of Atlanta (30339), who earned a law degree (Juris Doctor)

— Othman Awad of Marietta (30064), who earned a law degree (Juris Doctor)

— Shykeena Blanton of Athens (30606), who earned a law degree (Juris Doctor)

— Melissa Davies of Smyrna (30082), who earned a law degree (Juris Doctor)

— Nicole Deloach of Mableton (30126), who earned a law degree (Juris Doctor)

— Robert Evans of Mableton