The city is delaying borrowing $300 million to support a massive rebuild of the city’s parks, libraries and community centers as a lawsuit over the new sugar-sweetened beverage tax snakes through the courts system. Mike Dunn, a spokesman for Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration, told Billy Penn Tuesday that in addition to delaying the borrowing of that $300 million, the city …
An appeals court has upheld a judge’s dismissal of Mayor Stephanie Miner’s lawsuit against Cor Development over the property tax deal the company got for its $342 million Syracuse Inner Harbor project. The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court in Rochester unanimously dismissed on Friday the city’s appeal of Judge James Murphy’s year-old order. Miner sued Cor on Dec. 15, …
We can all thank Melania Trump for giving us a clearer sense of what she and her family are looking for from their stay in the White House. In court papers Melania filed Monday as part of a libel lawsuit against the parent company of the Daily Mail, she said that the British tabloid and website, by falsely reporting that she had once worked as a prostitute, caused the first lady to miss “major …
A bitter feud over Florida’s largest private school voucher program ended Wednesday when the state Supreme Court tossed out a lawsuit challenging a program used by nearly 98,000 school children. The court in a 4-1 decision declined to hear the case, resulting in a significant victory for backers of school choice programs while handing a sizable defeat to Florida’s main …
A Philadelphia judge on Monday dismissed the beverage industry’s legal effort to block the city’s planned tax on sugary and sweetened drinks, clearing the way for the levy to take effect Jan. 1. The president of the Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said the industry coalition fighting the tax would appeal the ruling. But stores are getting ready for …
There seems to be some confusion whether or not Glacier County officials will allow taxpayers to pay their taxes under protest citing the ongoing Class Action Lawsuit that has been appealed to the Montana Supreme Court.At least one taxpayer had her protested tax payment and form “denied” by the Glacier County Treasurer’s Office on Monday, Dec. 12, reported Elaine Mitchell. “We are awaiting …
The collapse of the plan to build a hotel and conference center next to St. Joseph’s hospital has resulted in the filing of a lawsuit on Thursday in which the would-be developer is seeking $400 million in damages from the medical center. An artist’s rendering of a hotel proposed for Paterson. The 51-page complaint by the nonprofit group that proposed building hotel alleges that St. …
A Birmingham man is asking a judge to remove a statewide amendment from the Nov. 8 ballot because he says it could overturn a judge’s ruling that halted Jefferson County’s plan to refinance more than a half-billion dollars in school construction debt and divert much of the $60 million in savings to the county’s general fund and other non-educational projects. Besides the general …
A Leonia man has started a class-action lawsuit against the Costco Wholesale Corporation, claiming the business illegally charged him sales tax on toilet paper. Robert Arnold, 55, claims he and his wife purchased Charmin toilet tissue from the wholesaler twice in July 2015 – once at the Wayne store and another time at the …
The state of that enter the state from other states after the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association reached a $44.4 million tax refund agreement with the state. The state’s Supreme Court agreed earlier this year with OOIDA’s challenge that the registration and decal taxes in the state were unconstitutional and discriminatory against out-of-state truckers who drive mostly in other …