A Tokyo suburb on Wednesday imposed Japan’s first ban on a habit seen around the world: pedestrians glued to their phone screens while walking, sometimes dangerously oblivious to their surroundings.
Read moreThe Southern California city of Los Alamitos has voted to repeal an ordinance claiming it was exempt from the Golden State’s sanctuary laws, following a settlement with community groups and federal and state court findings that its stance was unconstitutional.
Read moreTwo musicians sued University City, Missouri in federal court, claiming its recent enforcement of an ordinance barring public performance of music in the traditional busking site called the Delmar Loop is unconstitutional.
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Prior to the pandemic sparked by the novel coronavirus, there was the widespread calamity of homelessness in the city of Los Angeles. City officials said Thursday they are in talks to draft an ordinance to address shelter bed shortages.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed two ordinances Tuesday temporarily banning rent increases and requiring a large portion of essential businesses to provide gloves, masks and other protective gear for workers.
Read moreA federal judge in Florida refused to block a county ordinance closing local beaches in a suit brought by beachfront property owners, including former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the court ruled, “it seems highly likely … that the county has the authority to take the measures that it has in order to address the emergency.”
Read moreA federal court in Illinois ruled against a man who claims the Village of Evergreen Park infringed on his constitutional rights when it cited and fined him for a municipal fencing ordinance violation, finding the man has not proven that his vegetable garden is “a form of expression protected by the First Amendment.”
Read moreLos Angeles officials are temporarily barred from seizing and destroying large items belonging to homeless individuals, a federal judge in California ruled, finalizing a tentative ruling issued April 1 in a suit challenging a city ordinance that regulates the storage of personal property in public areas.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance requiring companies and nonprofits with 500
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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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