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Zachary Price
- Jan 27, 2022
- 5 min
The Fifty States' Varied Laws on Prosecutorial Nonenforcement
Prosecutorial discretion has become a political battleground in state and local government. Among other initiatives, reform prosecutors...
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Christopher S. Elmendorf & Tim Duncheon
- Dec 2, 2021
- 11 min
Calibrating Environmental Review to the Scope of Municipal Discretion Under the HAA
This is the last in a four part series. SLoGLaw thanks Chris Elmendorf and Tim Duncheon for this timely treatment of the important issue...
Christopher S. Elmendorf & Tim Duncheon
- Dec 1, 2021
- 16 min
Does the HAA (or anything else) Provide a Remedy CEQA-Laundered Project Denials?
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...
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Christopher S. Elmendorf & Tim Duncheon
- Nov 30, 2021
- 9 min
How CEQA and the HAA Became “Super”
In yesterday’s post, we asserted that the recent denial of a downtown housing project in San Francisco portends a generational clash of...
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Roderick M. Hills
- Nov 24, 2021
- 5 min
Canonizing Local Governments
This last July, the Michigan Supreme Court dusted off an obscure canon of statutory construction to resolve a high-profile case involving...
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Carolyn Shapiro
- Oct 21, 2021
- 5 min
Calibrating Judicial Review to the Times
Judge Sutton’s two books, Fifty-One Imperfect Solutions and Who Decides? contain fascinating history lessons, much food for thought, and...