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Las Vegas Finally Wins A Round In Baby Tam Saga
Las Vegas Finally Wins A Round In Baby Tam Saga

Jun 1, 2001

Adult businesses, CP&DR Staff, Legal Digest, Nevada, Vol. 16 No. 06 Jun 2001

The latest round in the legal saga of an adult bookstore in Las Vegas has been won by the city. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the city's regulatory system for adult businesses after the city adopted measures to ensure prompt reviews of adult business license applications by city officials and state courts.
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Appellate Panel Says County Can reapportion Property Tax Revenue
Appellate Panel Says County Can reapportion Property Tax Revenue

Jun 1, 2001

Legal Digest, other, Vol. 16 No. 06 Jun 2001

A Santa Barbara County special district had no standing to sue over the apportionment of property taxes from a resort development within the district's boundaries, the Second District Court of Appeal has ruled. And even if the district did have standing, its claim was filed after the 60-day statute of limitations for challenging a government agency's action under the Cortese-Knox Local Government Reorganization Act, the court held.
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Charles Buki
Charles Buki

Jun 1, 2001

Paul Shigley, Q&A, Vol. 16 No. 06 Jun 2001

Charles Buki is the director of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Training Institute in Washington, D.C. The institute was created by Congress in 1978 to revitalize older, distressed communities through a network of local nonprofits. Buki is a former Loeb Fellow in advanced environmental studies at Harvard University. He has written and lectured widely on neighborhood revitalization and neighborhood dynamics, their interrelationship with the environment and implications for social equity.
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