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

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2005); Altman 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. 2016); Maldonado v. Fontanes , 568 F.3d 3d 263 (1st Cir. 2009); Viilo v. Eyre , 547 F.3d

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Alcohol regulations against licensing due to proximity to schools, churches, and parks are dumb

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the problem, according to the state’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services (DABS) and Utah law, is that his business is too close to a church. Given how much the state is controlled by the Mormon Church, it's likely this law will change anytime soon. This is where antiquated laws get in the way.

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Driving people-centered digital transformation in public safety with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Colonel Lamar Davis of the Louisiana State Police (LSP), recently summed up the law enforcement landscape, saying, “When you look at crime today, it’s not just a public safety or law enforcement problem—it’s a social problem.” Share data and facilitate collaboration For first responders, poor communication can have dire consequences.

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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Differences in state laws affecting manufactured housing’s purchase or ownership, as well as local laws affecting zoning and siting, can also complicate the manufactured housing landscape.” (p. Further complicating manufactured housing finance is that owned manufactured homes can be sited on owned or rented land.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The same shortcomings were present in the 2005 London bombings, as were others (for example, the way in which 'major incident' as declared). Now every country needs a basic law that broadly specifies the organisation and structure of the civil protection system, and how it works.

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Explaining the Cycle of Systemic Vacancy

Center for Community Progress

More than half of properties bought on those subprime loans provided by Wells Fargo between 2005 to 2008, for example, were subject to foreclosure. When the housing bubble burst, many homes were suddenly worth much, much less than what people owed on them. Seventy-one percent of those were in predominately Black neighborhoods.

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