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The Legal Intelligencer

Real Estate Matters in Monetizing Municipal Assets

Municipalities under financial pressure from rising budgetary costs and long-term obligations are increasingly looking for options to "monetize" publicly owned assets through transfers to private entities. Especially attractive are municipal water and wastewater systems. With the delivery of water and wastewater utility services becoming increasingly complex and subject to more and more regulation each year, municipalities have an additional incentive to sell or lease such assets beyond any expected financial windfall.
13 minute read

Corporate Counsel

New Federal Agency Climate-Change Disclosures Worry Businesses

The Obama administration wants federal agencies to disclose more information about how their work affects climate change, in new guidance that was six years in the making and has spurred legal and economic concerns. Environmental groups are hailing the new disclosures, published by the White House Council on Environmental Quality, while others contend the climate-change analysis could thwart new business and infrastructure projects and provide fodder for litigation.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Snapping Up Cheap Spy Tools, Nations 'Monitoring Everyone'

Except for blacklisted nations such as Syria and North Korea, there is little to stop governments that routinely violate basic rights from obtaining the same so-called lawful intercept tools that have been sold to Western police and spy agencies.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Blue Lives Matter Legislation Introduced

Attacks on police officers, firefighters, correctional officers and first responders could fall under the state's hate crimes statute, making the attacks liable for additional penalties, under two bills recently introduced in the statehouse. The so-called "Blue Lives Matter" legislation follows the final passage of similar legislation in Louisiana in May. The legislation has been introduced in several other state legislatures as well.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Blue Lives Matter Legislation Introduced

Following is a listing of executive and legislative activity for the week of July 25. Members of the General Assembly are scheduled to return to session Sept. 19; members of the Senate on Sept. 26.
11 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Illegal Alien Criminals Will Laugh at 'Casey's Law'

Illegal immigrants and their enablers have become a big constituency of the Democratic Party, and Sen. Blumenthal and Rep. Courtney are Democrats. While they regret Casey Chadwick's murder and the many crimes committed by other illegal immigrants, they don't regret them enough to risk proposing anything that might be effective.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Official Pushes 48 Percent Pay Raise for Lawmakers

A member of a commission empowered to grant raises to state legislators is advocating for a 48 percent pay increase, saying it would mirror the increases provided in contracts the state has negotiated with the Public Employees Federation since 1999, the last year that members of the Assembly and state Senate received raises.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Real Estate Billionaire Moishe Mana Offers $2 Million for Trump Tax Returns

An Israeli-born real estate developer offers a $2 million donation to charity if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump coughs up his tax returns.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Socially Conservative Guatemala Sees Quiet LGBTQ Gains

Alex Castillo knew growing up that he was a boy trapped in a girl's body. It wasn't until recently, 40 years after his birth, that the government of his native Guatemala, or at least some parts of it, agreed.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Primary Proposal Could Boost State's Solar Energy Production

Florida voters will be asked Aug. 30 to extend to commercial and industrial properties a renewable-energy tax break that residential property owners already enjoy.
8 minute read

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