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Dear Sophie: How can I improve our startup’s international recruiting?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Establish your company’s immigration policy. Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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How digital health startups are navigating the post-Roe legal landscape

TechCrunch

Now, as state laws shift and abortion bans go into effect across the United States, companies are still trying to find ways to provide care while reimagining what healthcare should include. Nationally, the situation is proving tricky to navigate as each state can begin implementing individualized abortion laws.

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Virtual clinic Hey Jane raises $2.2M to solve for state anti-abortion legislation

TechCrunch

However, just in 2021, over 90 abortion restrictions were enacted in the United States, and there are 1,320 restrictions in total, according to The Guttmacher Institute , a nonprofit research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights.

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Trump slashed the Forest Service and put a timber exec in charge. It could lead to a corporate takeover of public lands

Fast Company Tech

Tom Carvajals work duties as a lead river ranger in the Boise National Forest ranged from checking parking passes to guiding archaeologists on weeklong missions into the rugged Idaho wilderness. I dont know if Ill be able to find something Im as passionate about, Carvajal said. There are signs the pressure is working. Even though U.S.

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What a speech controversy at Stanford tells us about Facebook?s Oversight Board

The Verge

Let’s conclude what turned out to be Free Speech Week on The Interface with a look at a case involving the co-chairman of Facebook’s new Oversight Board, a Zoom recording of his law school class, and the N-word. Facebook says it will abide by the board’s decisions, and will also ask it to issue advisory opinions on emerging policy questions.

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This century-old law lets presidents shift the sizes of national monuments

Fast Company Tech

The avenue for many of these changes is rooted in one century-old law. By using the Antiquities Act to create, expand or reduce national monuments, presidents can avoid an environmental impact statement, normally required under the National Environmental Policy Act, which also allows for public input.

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EPA likely to further limit federal protections for wetlands

Fast Company Tech

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nations bedrock clean water law and likely further limit the wetlands it covers , building on a Supreme Court decision two years ago that removed federal protections for significant areas. In the 2023 Supreme Court case Sackett v.

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