As laboratories of democracy, local governments are incubators for innovative policies with the potential to improve health and reduce health inequities. Local policy change is often grounded in a ...
The Fifth Circuit’s recent decision in National Press Photographers Association v. McCraw threatens to dilute the First Amendment rights of photographers and filmmakers using uncrewed aircraft systems ...
Knife preemption laws are quietly redrawing the map of who governs everyday life in your city. As state legislatures... The post Knife preemption bills spreading again — why cities keep losing control ...
LGBTQ advocates are sounding the alarm about how the legal doctrine of preemption is being used to prevent local progress for equality in red states. Some red states are working to undermine local ...
Most states have statutes or common law that allow an insurance policyholder to bring a civil action and seek more than just compensatory damages (e.g., punitive damages) when her insurance company ...
Arkansas has just rewritten the rules for how knives are regulated, shifting power from city halls to the Capitol... The post Arkansas just passed knife-law preemption — what local bans it wipes out ...
The Department of Justice sides with Monsanto on whether federal law preempts state-law duty-to-warn suits against pesticide manufacturers, setting up an important test of the Court's view of federal ...
The plaintiffs bar has argued that courts can only preempt prescription pharmaceutical state law failure-to-warn claims when ...