Laura Napoli Coordes
- Dec 20, 2021
- 4 min
What’s So Special About Special Districts?
Recently, I’ve become fascinated by special districts, independent government units created for a specific, limited purpose. These...
Ilya Somin
- Dec 13, 2021
- 4 min
Texas State Court Rules SB 8 Enforcement Mechanism is Unconstitutional
The ruling is mostly based on the Texas state constitution and probably will not affect the federal case challenging SB 8, currently...
Daniel Farbman
- Dec 9, 2021
- 5 min
Sanctuary, Abolitionism, and the Role of Local Governments in Resistance Movements
A few weeks ago Mason, Ohio voted to make itself a new kind of “sanctuary city” by banning abortions and threatening to punish anyone...
davidschleicher
- Dec 7, 2021
- 8 min
"Only the Rich Can Play" and Place-Based Policies
Cross Posted at the Niskanen Center This book review is about people v. place-based policies at the federal level (and Congress) but,...
Meryl Chertoff
- Dec 6, 2021
- 5 min
Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Case in CA Highlights Industry Role in Escalating Punitive Preemption
We’ve lifted up the work of SLoGLaw Blog contributors Rich Briffault and Erin Scharff on punitive pre-emption in earlier posts of this...
Darrell A.H. Miller
- Dec 3, 2021
- 3 min
Montgomery Facing Litigation for Renaming Street after Civil Rights Leader
Montgomery, Alabama, seat of state government, site of the famous Bus Boycott that helped launch the Civil Rights Movement, and home to...
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...
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...
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...