A Texas federal judge blocked a Dallas ordinance that requires businesses to offer paid sick leave, further impacting hourly employees dealing with the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit remanded a class action case against the City of Los Angeles and the city’s Housing and Community Investment Department alleging a housing inspection ordinance is unconstitutional. The plaintiffs should be allowed to amend their complaint to raise an as-applied challenge to the ordinance.
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The Minnesota Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a challenge to a state law preventing landlords from refusing prospective tenants based on their use of public assistant programs, notably federal housing vouchers.
Read moreA group of landlords and a conservative election watchdog group in Minnesota’s Twin Cities prevailed Monday in their challenge against two city ordinances that required them to provide voter registration information to their tenants.
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Two reproductive rights groups are suing seven small East Texas cities that have declared themselves “sanctuaries for the unborn” with anti-abortion ordinances that prohibit them from operating within city limits.
Read moreThe Texas Equal Access Fund et al. sued Waskom, Naples, Joaquin and four other Texas cities in federal court for passing unconstitutional ordinances that claim to ban abortion.
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A California appeals court on Tuesday struck down a county ordinance that would have allowed the drilling of thousands of new oil wells.
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Largely rejecting claims that an ad disclaimer law hinders political speech, a federal judge said Friday he will uphold the bulk of a San Francisco ordinance that requires political ads disclose top donors and secondary funding sources.
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A federal judge in New Mexico has ruled that a Santa Fe ordinance requiring disclosure of campaign spending over $250 on a ballot issue passes constitutional muster.
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The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld Minneapolis’ $15 minimum wage ordinance Wednesday, concluding a three-year battle over the pay hike in the state’s largest city.
Read moreThe Iowa Association of Business And Industry claims the City of Waterloo’s ordinance prohibiting employers from asking job applicants about their criminal records violates a state law on the subject, in Black Hawk County Court.
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Despite the recent unseasonable warmth in the area, a small central Wisconsin city has winter weather on its mind as the city council is poised to toss a ban on snowballs as thrown projectiles.
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The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider a pair of city ordinances from Boise, Idaho, that aimed to curb homelessness by criminalizing the act of sleeping in public places.
Read moreThe National Rifle Association’s legal challenge to a Los Angeles ordinance requiring businesses to disclose any links with the advocacy group received a boost Wednesday when a federal judge temporarily blocked the law.
Read moreThe United States sued Hesperia, Calif., San Bernardino County and its Sheriff’s Department in federal court, claiming its rental property/eviction ordinance was enacted to drive black and Latino renters away and discourage them from moving in.
Read moreThe Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a pair of emergency ordinances Tuesday freezing rent increases for tenants and barring “no-fault” evictions until a state law which does both takes effect Jan. 1.
Read moreThe Third Circuit ruled unanimously Friday that a Pittsburgh buffer-zone ordinance that puts space between clinics and anti-abortion activists does not violate the protesters’ rights.
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