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

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2005); Altman v. 6:12-CV-1697-Orl-37DAB, 2014 WL 3908187 (M.D. 11, 2014); McCarthy v. 2005); Warboys v. In short, “the law does not require the officer to wait until the approaching animal is within biting distance or is leaping at him before taking protective action.” Davis , 826 F.3d 3d 925 (7th Cir.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004).

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

For the buyer, closing costs vary significantly by state, reflecting different state regulations and laws. The ten-year average from 2014 to 2023 was 6.4 Of note, during the height of the bubble (2005 and 2006), the average downpayment by an FTHB actually decreased to just two percent.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.