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...
Court Will Rule Soon on Exclusivity Oral arguments have been completed and summary judgment briefs filed in a federal court case in Montgomery, Ala., focusing on whether a local government may pass an ordinance forbidding programming exclusivit Court Will Rule...
The Pikesville methadone clinic that has, since its founding, beaten back Baltimore County's efforts to force it to relocate, may remain where it stands for another two years, a judge has ruled in U.S. District Court. Judge Catherine C. Blake's decision, which comes eight months after an...
DALLAS -- A federal judge on Friday stopped a Dallas suburb's latest attempt to drive away illegal immigrants, ruling that Farmers Branch cannot enforce a ban on apartment rentals to those who can't prove they live legally in the country. U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle's temporary restraining...
U.S. District Court, Northern District of N.Y. Equal Protection Zoning Lamar Advertising of Penn. LLC v. Pitman 05-CV-375 Judge Mordue Background: The plaintiff, a company engaged in outdoor advertising, brought this...
Jose Merced wants to cut a few throats, but the city of Euless, Texas, won't let him. Merced, a Santeria priest, is challenging a local ordinance that prohibits the slaughter of goats, an essential part of the sacrifices required by his Afro-Caribbean religion. In April, after U.S. District...
District of Columbia v Heller marked the first time the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Second Amendment right of an individual to own a firearm. (1) In Heller, the Court struck the District of Columbia's ordinance that banned possession of handguns and mandated all registered firearms be kept unloaded and...
U.S. District Court, Western District of N.Y. Administrative Procedure Act Indian Gaming Citizens Against Casino Gambling in Erie County v. National Indian Gaming Commission 07-CV-0451S ...
Free speech rights were upheld on June 2 by the U.S. District Court in Phoenix, Arizona, when it issued a preliminary order stopping the town of Cave Creek from enforcing an anti-solicitation ordinance that prohibited individuals standing on or near a street or highway from soliciting employment, business, or contributions...
A federal judge has given Kane County until Monday to take down more than 30 road signs it has placed on hundreds of routes into the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, declaring the roads open to off-road vehicles. U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell issued an order Friday to...
Federal jury awards $3.7M to church A group of Seventh Day Adventists won a $3.7 million verdict against Prince George's County for having illegally discriminated against the religion by blocking the sect's effort to build a church on property it owns in West Laurel. The jury, in...
A group of Seventh Day Adventists won a $3.7 million verdict against Prince George's County for having illegally discriminated against the religion by blocking the sect's effort to build a church on property it owns in West Laurel. The jury, in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, found...
A federal judge has stopped the St. Bernard Parish Council from proceeding with a plan to evict a group of tenants from single- family homes that were never granted required permits for rental use by the council. The temporary restraining order was handed down Thursday by Judge...
Voters in the City of San Clemente will decide on a building height and view ordinance, thanks to a state appellate court ruling regarding signature gathering for a referendum of the ordinance. The Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled that referendum supporters did not have to abide by...
A newly opened lingerie store recently sued Craighead County over an ordinance that requires adult businesses to obtain a sexually oriented business license. Seductions Lingerie, which sells lingerie and a combination of adult and non-adult products, hasn't been required to get the license yet, but the owners want...
Byline: Rebecca Vesely A new court ruling has cast into further doubt the notion that municipalities and states can require employers to pay for healthcare for their workers, and could foil efforts, such as in California, to extend coverage to millions of uninsured....
Billboard ordinances in five cities have survived constitutional challenges, as the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected claims filed by three billboard companies. In three published decisions, the Ninth Circuit upheld billboard regulations in San Diego, Beaumont and Oakland. In unpublished memoranda, the court upheld regulations...
NEW YORK -- A federal judge's decision striking down a municipal law here that had required hundreds of restaurants to post calorie contents on their menus only intensified foodservice leaders' strategizing nationwide over ways to block lawmakers' push for point-of-purchase disclosure of dietary data. In a ruling that...
Dick Heller's status in the District of Columbia is clear: He is a special police officer with a responsible job. By day he's an armed guard at the Federal Judicial Center. But when he applied under D.C. law for permission to keep a pistol at his home, permission was denied....
A three-month-old Elkton loitering ordinance has been repealed after the American Civil Liberties Union challenged its legality. Town officials unanimously repealed the ordinance Wednesday, two days before the town was due to respond in U.S. District Court. Mayor Joseph A. Fisona says the town...
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