Public Policy
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The county of El Paso in Texas and a local immigrant-rights nonprofit asked a Texas federal judge on Monday to block the entirety of the Trump administration’s planned diversion of $6.1 billion in defense funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A split Ninth Circuit panel said Monday that pornography mogul Larry Flynt can go ahead with a lawsuit challenging a California law that limits how much owners of Golden State gambling houses can invest in out-of-state gambling interests, ruling Flynt’s challenge isn’t time-barred… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The city of Santa Monica can continue to enforce a ban on short-term property rentals that’s aimed at companies like Airbnb and HomeAway, a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel ruled on Thursday, saying the California city’s ordinance doesn’t violate the Constitution’s commerce clause… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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City officials in San Francisco have fired back at what they called a “series of mischaracterizations, inaccuracies and falsehoods” contained in a letter the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent on Wednesday alleging the city had violated the Clean Water Act… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Apple Inc. weighed in on Wednesday in a U.S. Supreme Court fight over the Trump administration’s 2017 decision to wind down the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, telling the justices that the program protected hundreds of its workers who entered the U.S. without authorization as children… Read this piece in its entirety at…
Mike LaSusa 