Lawyers representing four South Shore cities will appear in court Monday to try to prevent a historic land transfer from the provincial government to the Kahnawake Mohawk territory. The cities filed suit four years ago, after the Quebec government signed an agreement to return 500 acres of land that had been appropriated, in 2006, for the construction of Highway 30. Had the transfer gone …
A class-action civil rights lawsuit filed late Tuesday alleges that more than a dozen St Louis-area municipalities are engaged in the discriminatory and unconstitutional practice of jailing people for unpaid debts in order to raise state revenue, a situation the suit says amounts to a system of modern-day “debtors’ prisons” that primarily affects poor residents of color. The suit alleges a …
A memorandum sent last week by the Androscoggin County Commission to all municipal officials in the county was met with anger when commissioners stated that the municipalities failed to offer a “comprehensive settlement proposal” during mediation in their ongoing legal battle. Commissioners sent the memo to explain their side in the dispute and to make certain that the municipal …