The Escondido City Council's vote Oct. 18, banning landlords from renting to illegal immigrants, seems to be raising more questions than answers. "The ordinance, as currently written, is putting landlords in a lose-lose situation, asking them The Escondido City Council's vote Oct. 18,...
Byline: Mike Verespej The American Chemistry Council and several retail and manufacturing associations have asked the Superior Court of California to set aside an ordinance that bans the sale, manufacture and distribution of products that contain Byline: Mike Verespej ...
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings assigns an underlying 'BBB-' rating to the City of Philadelphia, PA's approximately $320 million gas works revenue bonds, sixth series (1998 general ordinance), and places the bonds on Rating Watch Negative. At this time Fitch maintains the Rating Watch Negative that was initially assigned to...
ON JAN. 31, 2005, THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME Court invalidated the city of Oakland's antipredatory lending ordinance, ruling that the ordinance (Ord. No. 12361 CMS), is pre-empted by the California covered-loan statute enacted in 2001. The court concl ON JAN. 31, 2005, THE CALIFORNIA...
On 12 September, the Senate approved a government ordinance reducing sanctions in the Penal Code for libel or for insulting a public official on duty. The ordinance has already been approved by the Chamber of Deputies and provides jail sentences of b On 12 September, the...
Some tenants and landlords in Escondido are protected--for the time being --from a newly created city law that could someday leave many undocumented residents homeless. A federal judge Nov. 16 stayed the ordinance restricting illegal immigrants fr Some tenants and landlords in Escondido...
AT&T Broadband & Internet Services has apparently stalled the open-access debate in metro St. Louis at least until November, when voters will be asked to decide the contentious issue. The MSO submitted a petition with more than 24,000 ...
In the Westchester County, N.Y., towns and villages served by Tele-Communications Inc., the operator is just three weeks away from the expiration of its 20 franchises, yet not even informal refranchising talks have begun. Instead, several of the In the Westchester...
July started out well for business in Illinois. Chicago won the contest for United Airlines' new headquarters, ensuring that 350 jobs stay in the state, and deflecting a potential blow to the city's stature as a business hub. Then city officials ...
WAL-MART STORES INC. OF BENTONVILLE has sued a California county over an ordinance that would prevent it from opening a Wal-Mart Supercenter there. Wal-Mart had announced its intentions to build a Supercenter in Alameda County, just east of San Fr WAL-MART STORES INC....
By Linda Haugsted The Little Rock, Ark., government has taken the first step toward allowing AT&T Inc. into town with infrastructure improvements that will enable its Internet-delivered video service. On July 11, Little Rock's board ...
Dec. 25--NEW DELHI -- Ignoring protests from the Left, the government is all set to take the Ordinance route in the next few days to meet WTO obligations and put in place a product patent regime after January 1, 2005. Dec. 25--NEW DELHI --...
A few thoughts about events of the past week: The good ... * The Oakland University Golden Grizzlies. The team was eliminated from the NCAA tournament by the University of North Carolina on Friday afternoon, but the team provided many feel-good ...
Byline: Donny Jackson Erecting wireless infrastructure in public rights-of-way may have become easier for wireless operators after the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last month ruled that a California city could not block construction of t Byline:...
Byline: SARAH A. KLEIN Smokers won't shun restaurants in favor of TV dinners at home if the Chicago City Council adopts a proposed smoking ban. But a ban would change their typical restaurant experience. Instead of grabbing a cigarette in the ba...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Tobacco giant Philip Morris Cos., the owners of three local restaurants, a hotel association executive and three others have asked the courts to overturn this city's stringent new smoking ordinance.
NEW ORLEANS--BUSINESS WIRE--May 18, 1995--FM Properties Inc. (NASDAQ: FMPO) announced today that the jury in the U.S. District Court trial in Austin, Texas found that the City of Austin violated the constitutional right of FM Properties Operating Co., the operating unit of FMPO, to substantive due process through the way...
A county could not stop construction of two "big-box" retail stores on the ground they violated an ordinance that did not go into effect until after the proposed stores had received all discretionary county approvals, and lacked only buildi A county could not stop construction of...
Councilman seeks to copy controversial San Francisco rule NEW YORK - Lawyers for the New York City Council have been asked to draft a domestic partner benefits ordinance similar to the one San Francisco adopted late last year. The New York bill's backCouncilman seeks to copy...
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