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Working People Across the Country Are Living Out of Their Cars - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Houston, at Odds With Regional Planning Council, Pushes for Reform - Bloomberg What Happened When Fake Trump Signs Appeared in Greenwich, Connecticut - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Should opioid settlement funds go to cover police expenses? : Shots - Health News : NPR Ashcroft says initiatives seek to ‘nullify Missouri laws protecting the right to life’ • Missouri Independen

Here are the picks for October 20. Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value (economist.com) Beyond the Myth of Rural America | The New Yorker City Backtracks on Key Commitments for New 15-Story, 1,040-Bed Boerum Hill Jail, Locals Say | Brownstoner US Cities Enter Era of Austerity Without Pandemic Aid, Report Says - Bloomberg Milton home prices: A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report on the housing crisis What Happened to San Francisco, Really? | T

Here are the picks for the week. Note the food cart licensing report, an interesting counterpoint to Laura Napoli Coordes' post here last week on taxi medallion licensing in New York City. Adams: NYC policy to shelter the homeless shouldn't cover migrant influx - POLITICO Kentucky Activists Step In to Deliver on the Promise of Voting Rights Restoration | Bolts (boltsmag.org) More than 1,000 birds killed in one night after hitting the same Chicago building (accuweather.com

Before getting to Swan's Picks for this week, here is a suggested reading from Gregory Shill, University of Iowa College of Law, on some ways that second-best interventions may pick up quick gains on transportation safety policy. Drawing from economic theory, "second best" interventions are self-consciously designed to reach for the best policy that can be achieved quickly. See more on what Shill has to say here , including suggestions for more bollards, better streetlight

My Secured Transactions students are often surprised to learn that a taxi medallion can serve as collateral for a secured loan. But taxi medallion lending is a big business: at the end of the 20th century, fewer than 30% of cabdrivers in New York City owned their medallions outright; most owned them subject to a loan secured by the value of the medallion. For years, New York encouraged investment in medallions, as they were thought to be an incredibly safe investment due to

Here are Swan's picks for the week. A word on the article on teaching Ta-Nahesi Coates in South Carolina: if students are never challenged by provocative or controversial views, how can they ever learn to think critically? What is the goal of public education, a right guaranteed under the constitution of every one of the states? Your thoughts, as always, welcome here. HOA Foreclosures Continue in Colorado, Despite Reform - Bloomberg Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years

Here are Swan's picks for this week. Black churches in Florida buck DeSantis: 'Our churches will teach our own history.' (msn.com) CA Legislature Approves Sen. Skinner’s SB 345, Strengthening Protections for Medication Abortion, Contraception and Gender-Affirming Care | Senator Nancy Skinner NYPD Quality-of-Life Crackdown Sends Thousands to Criminal Court, Undoing Landmark Reforms - THE CITY Judge Reverses Course on 2020 Protest Settlement Because Police Union Doesn't Like

The school year has begun, and the pace is picking up. Here are some recent developments: In a small Rhode Island town, a big issue about the First Amendment - The Boston Globe Texas highways targeted by antiabortion activists seeking to block interstate travel - The Washington Post A federal court throws out Alabama's congressional map again : NPR New York City’s foie gras ban is about more than fancy food - POLITICO Iowa court rules rental inspection law is unconstitutio

This week's edition of Swan's Picks features the reversal at the trial court level of the Texas "Death Star" preemption bill. The Texas AG has vowed to appeal. For Managing Editor, any state bill that contains a Star Wars reference is a strong contender to be included in the first state and local government law class of the semester, and this was in mine. Anything highly salient that you included in Class 1 (profs)? Any cases or legislation from IRL that you want to lift up

Very handy guide to the Supreme Court of all fifty states from Bolts. Great resource. Your State-by-State Guide to Every State Supreme Court | Bolts (boltsmag.org) Can I Buy a House: Higher Rates Hit Market With Affordability at 40-Year Low - Bloomberg Anoka approves state's first social district, allowing public consumption in certain area - KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News South Carolina Six-Week Abortion Ban Will Take Effect As State Supreme Court Reverses Itself (forbes.com)

It is not too often state constitutional rights claims make Meet the Press, but that was true this week when Chuck Todd interviewed Michael Gerrard of the Columbia Sabin Center. Five states in addition to Montana contain environmental rights in their constitutions. That is one reason why today's first Swan Pick is a must-read! Judge rules in favor of youths in landmark Montana climate trial - The Washington Post A conversation with the newspaper owner raided by cops (substa

Some great picks for this week, as the law school semester is about to begin. Have a look! Direct Democracy—and Abortion Rights—Win in Ohio – Mother Jones The War on Cities | The New Yorker Small towns vote less Republican than other rural areas, data show - The Washington Post Hurricane Season 2023: Florida’s Biggest Property Insurer Is Nonprofit Citizens - Bloomberg First American city to tame inflation owes success to affordable housing | The Seattle Times Idaho Profe

Happy Birthday to Barack Obama, Meghan Markle and Greta Gerwig. Big day for cultural icon celebrations! Kingston passes form-based zoning code to aid affordable housing (timesunion.com) WI’s Dairy Industry Relies on Undocumented Immigrants. The State Won’t Let Them Legally Drive. — ProPublica Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Mexican city of Chihuahua bans misogynist lyrics in live music venues | Global dev

To be clear, we will be seeing "Oppenheimer." 35-property Zillow listing turns heads in West Philly - WHYY Tennessee educators file lawsuit challenging law limiting school lessons on race, sex and bias | AP News Opinion | More Public Pools Could Save Thousands of Lives - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Did Police Criticism Cancel Artist Diego Marcial Rios' Show? (sfstandard.com) Dallas County Jail Adds Election Day Polling Place After Pressure from Activists | Bolts (bolt

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Faces $35 Billion Pension Crisis - Bloomberg Veterans quit DeSantis’ Florida State Guard over militialike training (tampabay.com) New Jersey Police Disproportionately Stop Minorities, Study Finds (governing.com) A Saudi company took as much water as it wanted during Arizona drought - The Washington Post With Veto Override on Housing, City Council Deepens Conflict With Adams - The New York Times (nytimes.com) All Foster Kids in California Can Now

Happy Bastille Day. Here are Swan's Picks for the week: Detroit Marks 10th Anniversary of Bankruptcy With Bond Sale - Bloomberg The Case Against Reparations in Evanston, Asheville and California - Bloomberg ‘Satanic’ Pride Merch Harms Kids, Mississippi AG Tells Target (mississippifreepress.org) Lawsuit seeking reparations for 1921 Tulsa race massacre dismissed - The Washington Post Farmers Insurance is leaving Florida in latest blow to homeowners (tampabay.com) Philly's g

It's July, and you all are busy, it seems, writing. Here are a couple of links to work from our contributors. First, from Michael Pollack, this meditation in Slate , on the regulation of sidewalks. And for another perspective, Vanessa Casado Perez last year wrote her own take on sidewalks in SLoG Law, here . Also this week, from Brian Highsmith, who reviewed David Schleicher's new book last week, check out this new post on the LPE Project blog on how the City of Jackson wate

For those who groove to Justice Brennan's visionary 1977 Harvard Law Review article, State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights, Swan's lead pick this week, by James Forman and Lara Bazelon is like a greatest hits countdown on July 4th weekend. Geek out with us. Liberals Should Use State Courts to Check the Supreme Court (nymag.com) San Francisco Gives Hope to Tenants of Residential Hotels (sfstandard.com) Car insurance premiums based on job, education can d

Here are the week's picks. If you haven't looked yet, Brian Highsmith has done a great post for SLoG, reviewing David Schleicher's new book on fiscal federalism, In a Bad State . Texas Preemption Law Overrides City Laws on Workers Rights, Evictions - Bloomberg These are the new laws starting July 1 in Minnesota | kare11.com How a housing crisis in Utah is causing more first-time homelessness (sltrib.com) Court rules Vallejo illegally destroyed evidence in police killings (o

Written among other purposes as a policymaker’s handbook, David Schleicher’s “ In a Bad State ” develops important—and timely—lessons from the long history of domestic state and local fiscal crises. His compelling account contextualizes this (understudied) history through insights from the academic literatures of public finance and political science, as well as the law of municipal bankruptcy, to conceptualize a new framework for understanding the specific tradeoffs that have