A Michigan city’s ordinance that required some residents to connect their home’s drainage systems to the municipal storm-sewer system and install sump pumps was challenged Wednesday as unconstitutional before a Sixth Circuit panel that appeared unlikely to rule in their favor.
Read moreA class action filed Thursday accuses Chicago of refusing to repay residents money it collected from illegally issued duplicate vehicle-related tickets.
Read moreOpponents of what they call Chicago’s “draconian” ordinance regulating Airbnb rentals faced an unsympathetic Seventh Circuit panel at oral arguments Monday morning.
Read moreThe owners of several vineyards claim in a federal class action that Napa County’s restrictions on helicopters are unconstitutional and will severely hamper their business.
Read moreThe Houston City Council on Wednesday revised city law to prevent a Canadian purveyor of sex robots that plans to open its first U.S. shop from offering customers, as one councilman put it, a “try-it-before-you-buy” option.
Read moreCreating a circuit split, the Seventh Circuit ruled Friday that the National Labor Relations Act does not allow local municipalities to pass right-to-work laws.
Read moreA federal judge upheld a Maine city’s ban on the bulk loading of crude oil onto tankers in its harbor Friday, derailing a pipeline operator’s plan to reverse the flow of oil along its conduit.
Read moreA federal judge has blocked San Diego from enforcing a municipal code outlawing living in vehicles, a win for disabled residents who have been ticketed and had their vehicles impounded because they are homeless.
Read moreA federal judge in Des Moines dismissed a lawsuit by a Nebraska fireworks retailer that claimed four Iowa cities put too many restrictions on fireworks sales in their communities.
Read moreThe Texas Supreme Court on Friday upheld an appeals court ruling that disallows local governments from banning single-use plastic bags, finding that state law bars ordinances restricting the sale or use of containers.
Read moreA New Jersey sewage company claims in a federal complaint Wednesday that it will be bankrupted by a new law that caps how much it can bill towns and villages.
Read moreResidents sued the Orange County city of Los Alamitos on Wednesday, fighting the City Council’s new ordinance exempting the town from California’s sanctuary state law.
Read moreThe Small Property Owners Association—San Jose and 17 of its members brought a federal complaint against San Jose, challenging a “Rent Registry” ordinance that asks intrusive questions about each “rent-stabilized unit” in the city, in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Read moreAt a Tuesday hearing, the Seventh Circuit seemed unmoved by a conservative challenge to labor laws in Illinois, one of the last union-friendly states in the Rust Belt, in a lawsuit seeking to legalize local right-to-work ordinances.
Read moreAt a time when the Trump administration is working to cut back federal environmental rules, a professor from the University of Houston Law Center says state and local governments should take on part of the regulatory role.
Read moreA dispute involving private cemeteries is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, after the justices agreed Monday to decide whether a property owner must first exhaust all state court remedies before filing a federal lawsuit asserting an unconstitutional taking of land.
Read moreFive churches and a Christian radio station sued a Wisconsin city, claiming its recently passed nondiscrimination ordinance protecting transgender residents should not apply to them.
Read moreA northern Chicago suburb that saw a federal judge strike down its “right-to-work” ordinance faces a new legal challenge from a union member claiming his taxes unlawfully funded a lobbying group pushing for the measure.
Read moreAn appellate panel grilled attorneys representing Seattle in a hearing over the constitutionality of the city’s first-of-its-kind ordinance allowing Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize, repeatedly asking why the rules didn’t violate antitrust laws.
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