I'm of course not defending sniff dogs — not even close.
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Property owners are pushing back against the ADA's slippery slope of "service animals." Plus: On serial ADA plaintiffs.
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To review: The "bankruptcy" mentioned as the alternative faced by the Big Three automakers, should they not receive a taxpayer bailout, is a Chapter 11 reorganization, not a Chapter 7 liquidation. Some have argued that a long-term reorganization is simply not possible (i.e., because no one would buy a car from a company in Chapter [...]
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A Stitch in Haste recommends the following report from the Congressional Research Service: Federal Civil Rights Statutes: A Primer Summary: Under federal law, an array of civil rights statutes are available to protect individuals from discrimination. This report provides a brief summary of selected federal civil rights statutes, including the Civil Rights Act, the Equal [...]
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From "God's Love, We Deliver" to "God's House, Buzz Off" — When Gary Khera, went with his wife to the Union Mission on Roanoke Avenue to make a donation, a staffer asked him to remove his turban. "She said, 'Sir, you have to take your turban off. This is the United States,'" Khera recounted. "That [...]
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I'm having trouble coming up with a non-expletive term for our infamous local megalomaniac: After being dealt a rare public embarrassment by the City Council, which forced his administration to acknowledge on Monday that he was legally required to send out $400 rebate checks promised to hundreds of thousands of New York homeowners, a defiant [...]
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You may have noticed the current Sidebar Sidetrack, which links to a survey of ugly buildings. By sheer coincidence, word has come down that New York City's out-of-control Landmarks Preservation Commission continues to justify its own unjustifiable existence by finding new sharks to jump: Silver Towers/University Village, three concrete towers designed by I. M. Pei [...]
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Interesting: A state appeals court ruled Wednesday that a western Pennsylvania township violated constitutional protections in forcing a sexually oriented business to close on minor holidays such as Flag Day. … The video and book store, Adultland XXX, faced the prospect of being shut down for a year because it conducted sales on Flag Day [...]
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Another oblivious contribution from the increasingly silly New York Times "Ethicist" column. The question put to him: I own a busy cafe-delicatessen with 25 employees. All the workers except two enjoy listening to background music from the radio while they work, as do I; those two say it irritates them, gives them headaches and makes [...]
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(Or: "Bringing Kelo to Copyright?") Two law professors suggest exactly that: After vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin finished her big speech at the Republican National Convention, the 1977 song "Barracuda," by the band Heart, blared out over the roar of the crowd. Convention organizers chose the music to highlight Palin's high school basketball-team nickname, "Sarah [...]
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