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Prosecutorial discretion has become a political battleground in state and local government. Among other initiatives, reform prosecutors...

Some of the Justices at SCOTUS have been reading author (and Sixth Circuit Chief Judge) Jeffrey Sutton. The Court’s per curiam decision...

In some academic circles, the phrase “local economic development incentives” has become an oxymoron along the lines of “military music”...

We are delighted to share this post from a former Virginia legislative leader, David J. Toscano. This is the latest in our Field...

The pandemic lockdowns shed light on the state and relevance of our sidewalks. When we could go nowhere, we could walk, exercise, play,...

Omicron notwithstanding, rising COVID-19 vaccination rates in the US means that an end at least to the acute phase of the pandemic may...

Following a practice that originated in Israel and Denmark before spreading more widely through Europe, several big “blue” cities in the...

SLoGLaw Blog, and its human capital, will take a brief hiatus, now to January 4. We'll let half the country nurse mild COVID-19 omicron...

Recently, I’ve become fascinated by special districts, independent government units created for a specific, limited purpose. These...

The ruling is mostly based on the Texas state constitution and probably will not affect the federal case challenging SB 8, currently...

A few weeks ago Mason, Ohio voted to make itself a new kind of “sanctuary city” by banning abortions and threatening to punish anyone...

Cross Posted at the Niskanen Center This book review is about people v. place-based policies at the federal level (and Congress) but,...

We’ve lifted up the work of SLoGLaw Blog contributors Rich Briffault and Erin Scharff on punitive pre-emption in earlier posts of this...

Montgomery, Alabama, seat of state government, site of the famous Bus Boycott that helped launch the Civil Rights Movement, and home to...

This is the last in a four part series. SLoGLaw thanks Chris Elmendorf and Tim Duncheon for this timely treatment of the important issue...

Here is Part 3 or this four-part series: The HAA prevents cities from denying or reducing the density of housing projects, but it doesn’t...

In yesterday’s post, we asserted that the recent denial of a downtown housing project in San Francisco portends a generational clash of...

Late last month, observers erupted in fury when San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted down a proposal to build nearly 500 new homes...

This last July, the Michigan Supreme Court dusted off an obscure canon of statutory construction to resolve a high-profile case involving...

Ithaca, New York made headlines recently with its announcement that it would fully decarbonize its buildings. The city’s Energy...