(The Center Square) - The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled against exorbitant government fees in a case that centered on one California retiree forced to pay a flat-rate $23,000 “traffic impact fee” for the construction of a single small home to raise his grandson in. This ruling combined earlier rulings on government permitting fees, which must both have “essential nexus” — related to the government interest from having the fee — and be “roughly proportional” to the...
A California landowner won his challenge to the constitutionality of a fee a California county charged him to obtain a building permit on Friday. In 2016, George Sheetz of Placerville, CA, attempted to build a home on a parcel of land he owned. When he applied for a building permit, he was gobsmacked to learn that in addition to typical fees, he had to pony up $24,000 for a "traffic impact mitigation fee." A unanimous Supreme Court agreed with Sheetz that the "mitigation" fees he had been...
Montana Supreme Court Tries To Move The State Left Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Montana State Supreme Court. (Screenshot via GoogleMaps) Commentary The Epoch Times reported on March 28 that the Montana Supreme Court struck down four state “election integrity” laws. The court’s decision appears to be part of a wider judicial effort to reverse conservative electoral trends in Montana. Manipulating elections might not seem like a proper role for...
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Big tech and the Brazilian court system are “colliding” in South America. Brazil’s supreme court says it’s launching a probe into billionaire Elon Musk and his social media platform “X” – after Musk said he would lift restrictions on certain accounts that were ordered to be blocked. Musk called the move “unconstitutional” and appears to […]
Leaders, activists and groups across Arizona are reacting to the state Supreme Court's ruling to revert to a 1864 pre-statehood law, handing Arizona one of the strictest abortion bans in the country.
The killing of Kanhaiya Lal- the tailor hacked to death outside his shop in broad daylight in Rajasthan's Udaipur in June 2022 - featured in the Supreme Court Tuesday, as it heard a PIL against increasing mob violence against minorities.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — including a former Columbus resident. Continue reading at The Republic News.
SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – David K. Thomson is New Mexico's 43rd chief justice since statehood. Justice Thomson was sworn in on Wednesday, April 17. Thomson was chosen by his colleagues and will serve a two-year term, according to the Administrative Office of the Courts. As chief justice, he will act as the administrative head of budgetary []
Idaho Supreme Court Upholds Ban On Student IDs For Voting Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court of Idaho on Thursday, April 11, upheld recent legislative amendments to the state’s voter identification requirements, affirming a lower court’s ruling in favor of the Idaho Secretary of State, Phil McGrane, which eliminated the use of student IDs for voter registration and in-person voting. The unanimous ruling came in light of the suit filed by...
The Supreme Court's conservative majority has signaled that it may be preparing to upend hundreds of criminal charges against participants in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.Over 300 January 6 defendants have faced the federal felony charge "obstructing an official proceeding," resulting in many convictions and prison sentences. The statute was passed by Congress in 2002 following the Enron scandal. It mandates a prison sentence of up to 20 years for those who "corruptly" attempt to...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was back on the bench Tuesday, after
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is back on the bench after an unexplained one-day absence. Thomas, 75, was in his usual seat, to the right of Chief Justice John Roberts as t