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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Ban on Possession of Large-Capacity Magazines Did Not Facially Violate the Second Amendment

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

According to the Ninth Circuit in Bonta , California law allows owners of large-capacity magazines to modify them to accept 10 rounds or fewer. In so holding, the court reversed the decision of a federal district court that had granted a motion for summary judgment filed by the plaintiff gun owners. Becerra , 366 F. 3d 1131 (S.D.

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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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Building trust in government: A data-driven imperative

Partnership for Public Service

Partnership President and CEO Max Stier speaking about our work on rebuilding trust in government at govDATAx 2023. The Data Foundation, notably through its govDATAx summit , works toward this goal.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 26, no. 3 (2019): 795-817.

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Why States Need Stronger Statutes about Animal Cruelty

Barrett & Greene

Known as “Desmond’s Law” it was enacted in October of 2016. The first law of its kind in the nation the statute puts a pro bono lawyer or a law student under the supervision of a law professor in court to advocate for justice for the dog or cat victim of egregious abuse. There is no “get out of jail free’ card any more.

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How One State Advances Cyber Protection

GovLoop

And whether that involves helping people pay their water bills or allowing law enforcement to preserve crime data, the cost of IT security is worth it, she believes. In August 2019, 23 local governments, from one end of Texas to another, were hit by ransomware. Here are her suggestions to keep government agencies cyber-secure.

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What @sog_ced is reading online: October 2022

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The School of Government property tax law expert, Chris McLaughlin, evaluates possible bias in property tax appeals. DFI in the news: The Well revisits one of the 2019 stops of the Tar Heel Bus Tour, downtown Kannapolis, and describes DFI’s work there and the City’s successful revitalization effort. unc.live/3SEV3f6.

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