Restaurants Push Back on Berkeley Plan to Ban Gas
A restaurant industry group said the city is trying to push through a ban on gas appliances in violation of federal law, by mandating that all new buildings be 100% electric.
Read moreA restaurant industry group said the city is trying to push through a ban on gas appliances in violation of federal law, by mandating that all new buildings be 100% electric.
Read moreFeral chickens run free in Key West, just one of those things that keep the Southernmost City charmingly weird.
Read moreFrom crowing roosters to the whiff of barnyard animals, the “sensory heritage” of France’s countryside will now be protected by law from attempts to stifle the everyday aspects of rural life from newcomers looking for peace and quiet.
Read moreThe Supreme Court refused Monday to take up anti-abortion activists’ challenge to a Pittsburgh ordinance creating protest-free buffer zones around abortion clinics, but a conservative justice said the court should take up the issue when a more developed case comes before it.
Read moreA Texas court upheld the city of Austin and Travis County’s orders banning indoor and outdoor dining over New Year’s weekend between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who challenged the orders, immediately appealed to the state’s Court of Appeals for the Third Judicial District.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a suit challenging regulations relating to San Jose’s apartment rent ordinance that require landlords to provide information about rent stabilized units and condition their ability to increase rents on the disclosure of that information.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a suit brought by Citizens for Free Speech challenging Alameda County’s ordinance prohibiting the erection of billboards on a man’s private property. The county provided the man with adequate procedural protections at the abatement hearing, so there is no due process violation.
Read moreA federal court in California ruled against medical marijuana growers who claimed Shasta County violated their rights when it enacted a county ordinance banning the outdoor cultivation of marijuana. There is no “fundamental right to collectively cultivate marijuana,” the court ruled.
Read moreThe West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s action challenging a state law that prohibits property owners from banning firearms in parking lot areas can continue, a federal court in the state ruled.
Read moreAn appeals court in Ohio upheld a ruling in favor of gun rights groups that found Cincinnati’s ban on firearm “trigger activators,” such as bump stocks, unconstitutional. The city’s ordinance is an “invalid exercise of home-rule authority.”
Read moreThe global tobacco industry has aggressively lobbied governments during the Covid-19 pandemic to expand markets and blunt measures designed to curb their business, a report from watchdog groups aligned with the World Health Organization claimed on Tuesday.
Read moreFrance’s lower house of parliament is opening debate Tuesday on a security bill that would permit the imprisonment of people who publish images of police officers with intent to cause them harm.
Read moreA federal court in Pennsylvania granted a group of cigar manufacturers and distributors’ request for a preliminary injunction to prevent Philadelphia from enforcing an ordinance that prohibits the sale of tobacco products flavors or aromas other than the flavor or aroma of tobacco.
Read moreThree Ninth Circuit judges heard arguments Tuesday over the constitutionality of an Oakland ordinance requiring landlords to pay relocation costs for tenants displaced by evictions when property owners move back in.
Read moreAn appeals court in Washington revived a challenge to a Seattle ordinance that regulates the storage of firearms, requiring them to be secured in a locked container. The plaintiffs, two gun owners and two gun rights groups, can bring their challenge under the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a mobile home park’s suit against the city of El Monte over its rent control ordinance. The mobile home park argued the ordinance constitutes an unlawful taking but six of its claims are precluded as they were dismissed in state court.
Read moreMonths after Virginia lawmakers passed a handful of new gun-control laws, many are finally being enforced and their enactment has generated a mix of reactions from people across the state.
Read moreA federal court in Minnesota dismissed a group of tobacco companies’ suit against the city of Edina relating to a recently adopted ordinance banning the sale of flavored tobacco products.
Read moreThe Arizona Supreme Court upheld Phoenix’s ordinance imposing trip fees on commercial ground transportation providers like Uber and Lyft who take passengers to and from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, finding the ordinance is constitutional because paying fees to use airport property for commercial purposes is not transaction-based.
Read moreA resident of Bloomington, Minnesota, who describes herself as a “point person for delivering neighborhood concerns” to officials lost her suit challenging the city’s child photography ordinance and the state’s harassment statute in federal court. The woman was interviewed by police after she was reported for photographing children — who attend a charter school within an Islamic center — during their recess in a public park.
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