On Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2017, Santa Bar­bara City Coun­cil will con­sider  a tem­po­rary restric­tion on devel­op­ment projects pro­posed under the Aver­age Unit-Size Den­sity (AUD) Incen­tive Pro­gram. The AUD Incen­tive Pro­gram car­ries out a key imple­men­ta­tion action of the City’s 2011 Gen­eral Plan and is intended Read More …

[h4]Gorsuch Fol­lows Scalia In Time and Philosophy[/h4] WASHINGTON — Pres­i­dent Trump on Tues­day nom­i­nated Judge Neil M. Gor­such to the Supreme Court, ele­vat­ing a con­ser­v­a­tive in the mold of Jus­tice Antonin Scalia to suc­ceed the late jurist and touch­ing off a bru­tal, par­ti­san show­down at Read More …

[h3]”“NARROW” RULING COULD HAVE SWEEPING EFFECT[/h3]In a 5–4 deci­sion, the US Supreme Court ruled on Mon­day that requir­ing family-owned cor­po­ra­tions to pay for insur­ance cov­er­age for con­tra­cep­tion vio­lated a 1993 fed­eral law pro­tect­ing reli­gious free­dom. The rul­ing in Bur­well v. Hobby Lobby Stores, No. 13–354, Read More …

Per­ceived By Many As Vic­tory for Undoc­u­mented Work­ers In a 5–2 Deci­sion, the Califor­nia Supreme Court ruled Thurs­day that California’s legal pro­tec­tions for work­ers who suf­fer job dis­crim­i­na­tion extend to immi­grants who ille­gally use oth­ers’ Social Secu­rity num­bers to get their jobs.  See the full Read More …

In its response to a cit­i­zen peti­tion sub­mit­ted under sec­tion 21 of the Toxic Sub­stances Con­trol Act (TSCA), EPA indi­cated that as a first step, it would con­vene a stake­holder process to develop an approach to obtain infor­ma­tion on chem­i­cal sub­stances and mix­tures used in Read More …

Huge Win For EPA and Envi­ron­men­tal­ists   “It bears men­tion that EPA is get­ting almost every­thing it wanted in this case.” –Jus­tice Antonin Scalia In a much-anticipated deci­sion, the United States Supreme Court on Mon­day gave what has been trum­peted as a huge vic­tory for Read More …