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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

6:18-CV-06772-MAT, 2019 WL 2192502, at *6 (W.D.N.Y. May 21, 2019) (“[D]og owners forfeit many of these possessory interests when they allow their dogs to run at large, unleashed, uncontrolled and unsupervised.” 18-CV-04189-ARR-PK, 2019 WL 1406647, at *7 (E.D.N.Y. 28, 2019) (in turn quoting Dziekan , 376 F. Hall , No.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since the 2020 election, over half of the states in the US have changed election laws. Since 2019, Voterly has partnered with HeadCount , a non-partisan organization that uses the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy. Since 2004 HeadCount has supported the registration of over one million voters.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Every country needs a law that specifies the nature of the civil protection system and the basic details of how it works. Moore-Bick, M.

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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

588, 592-93 (1872) (nonperformance excused when occasioned by act of law); see also Sch. 2d 342, 345 (2004); see also Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 264 (1981). 2019); Specialty Tires of Am., Harrington v. Dennie , 13 Mass. 93, 94 (1816); Mis. & Tenn. Green , 56 Tenn. of Olyphant v. 22, 29, 184 A. Brown Amusement Co. ,

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