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Ellen Ash Peters, the Yale academic who upended the insular network that had shaped Connecticut’s courts for centuries, becoming the first woman to sit on the state Supreme Court and then serve as its chief justice, died Wednesday. She was 94.
Her death was announced by the court.
Peters was nominated as an associate justice of the state’s highest court in 1978 by Gov. Ella T. Grasso, who broke with tradition by going outside the ranks of trial judges for the first time to place a scholar on a court with a narrow, if stolid, approach to the law.
Gov. William A. O’Neill elevated her to chief j ..read more
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Las cláusulas de no competencia, que pueden impedir que un empleado trabaje para un competidor de su empleador después de dejar su trabajo, han existido en muchas industrias durante décadas.
Pero Connecticut no tiene un estándar universal para hacer cumplir los acuerdos, y aunque los legisladores estatales han considerado regulaciones más estrictas al respecto en los últimos años, la mayoría de las propuestas no se han convertido en ley.
Esto es lo que debe saber sobre cómo se manejan los acuerdos en Connecticut.
¿Qué es un acuerdo de no competencia?
Las no compete ..read more
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Connecticut election enforcement officials referred two cases involving allegations of absentee ballot fraud in Bridgeport for potential criminal charges on Wednesday, opening a new chapter in a scandal that has already resulted in a judge tossing out the initial results of the city’s 2023 Democratic mayoral primary.
The State Elections Enforcement Commission, the office responsible for investigating election crimes in Connecticut, voted to refer the two cases to Chief State’s Attorney Patrick Griffin, who has the power to prosecute individuals for election-related fraud.
Both cases originate ..read more
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The state Department of Public Health is wading through a backlog of 2,400 unaddressed complaints from nursing home residents, their families or others, and another 1,300 complaints related to incidents at hospitals, some which are now five years old, agency data shows.
The pandemic and a wave of retirements in the agency’s Facility Licensing and Investigations Section has contributed to the complaint pileup. At one point, FLIS was more than 40% understaffed, but through “aggressively” recruiting, its leaders said, the vacancy rate is down to 14%.
The backlog caught the attention of health ca ..read more
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Mental health experts and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal are calling for action on the growing mental health crisis of youth suicide.
Monday’s event in Hartford’s North End highlighted the significant increase in youth suicides, particularly among adolescents aged 10 to 24. Some are calling it an epidemic.
Blumenthal is a co-sponsor of the Child Suicide Prevention and Lethal Means Safety Act, federal legislation that aims to provide support and resources for youth.
“We know we can do something,” Blumenthal said. “That’s why I’ve introduced the Child Suicide Prevention and Lethal Means ..read more
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Connecticut is currently considering a bill, SB 143, that would protect tenants in larger buildings from “no-fault” evictions — a form of forced displacement in which a landlord does not need to justify an eviction with a reason. SB 143 would require “just cause” for evictions of covered tenants, increasing housing stability and peace of mind for tens of thousands of Connecticut families.
Kasia Phillips and Jen DePalma
As homeowners, we know just how life-changing it is to have stable housing. And as recent renters, we experienced the stark difference that came with home ownership — significa ..read more
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In a recent op-ed, Michele Jacklin attacks Senate Bill No. 394, which would exempt from the FOI law those records arising out of research and teaching by public university faculty, except for university financial records. This bill, like a similar one last session, would make it harder for people to use FOI requests as weapons to harass faculty for personal or ideological reasons.
Sadly, Jacklin’s attack amounts to partly recycled talking points that remain remarkably misleading, for reasons that I already addressed last year as did others.
First, Jacklin claims “little evidence” of faculty h ..read more
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We have a treasure in Connecticut, and I am not sure how many people know it. Her name is Marissa Gillett, and she is the chairman of Connecticut’s Public Utility Regulatory Authority (“PURA”).
I have had the pleasure to get to know Gillett in my work as an advocate for a clean and equitable energy future. Gillett is a leader, a visionary, and a change maker. We should all be honored to have Gillett working for us.
PURA regulates the utilities in Connecticut. Utilities are a monopoly; you can’t choose who delivers your electricity to your house or business. Many of the utilities in Connecticu ..read more
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Dozens of people attended a hearing on Tuesday over the fate of Connecticut’s first Black chief public defender, TaShun Bowden-Lewis, which ended without a resolution and raised concerns about the discord between the career attorney and the Division of Public Defender Services’ regulatory oversight body.
The roughly four-hour hearing comes about two months after the Public Defender Services Commission placed Bowden-Lewis on paid administrative leave following recurring disputes between the two and allegations that she improperly instructed a subordinate to access email accounts belongin ..read more
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Against the backdrop of a troubled FAFSA financial aid process for high school students that has captured national headlines and sharp criticism, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona returned to Connecticut on Tuesday to discuss a program that has broad support: expanding postsecondary education opportunities for incarcerated people.
While the purpose of the meeting at CT State Middlesex was to discuss the Second Chance Pell program with Gov. Ned Lamont and state education officials, Cardona also doubled down on changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form that has recen ..read more