A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks to allow a Pleasanton man to resume preaching on a public street after he was ticketed three times for noise complaints and had his amplified speech permit revoked by Santa Cruz police. The lawsuit also seeks to overturn two city laws that allow police to issue a city permit for amplified public speech and allows police to revoke the permits …
A federal judge ruled in favor of the city of Portland on Thursday in a lawsuit brought by a white, American-born taxicab driver who claimed he was a victim of discrimination for being denied one of 43 permits to work as part of the Portland International Jetport’s taxi pool. The driver, Paul McDonough of South Portland, claimed in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland in 2015 …
A Christian student group is suing North Carolina State University over a policy they say requires members to get a permit to talk to their classmates about Jesus. Grace Christian Life, a religious student group long recognized by the 35,000-student school in Raleigh, claimed in a federal suit that school officials barred members last September from evangelizing to people on campus. The …
Truro landowner Brenda Connors recently won a lawsuit in Barnstable Superior Court that will annul a town zoning board of appeals decision from 2014 granting a comprehensive permit to Habitat For Humanity to create six lots at 181 Route 6. Three of those lots would be used to build a total of three affordable homes, two would remain undeveloped and a driveway would be constructed on the …