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Yet only a few days later, the police department sent her landlord a notice, instructing the landlord to evict the victim under the local ordinance based on the arrest.

The proposed ordinance, based on similar laws in Sunnyvale and San Francisco, is "the strongest, most well thought out, most defensible, most important, most significant step forward on safe storage of firearms in the state of California," Councilman Paul Krekorian said.

By contrast, the earlier LA ordinance based on the lower standard requiring a vague "good faith effort" by contractors has resulted in the disclosure of over 50 factory sites in such countries as the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Kenya, Bangladesh and China.

The restaurants were exempt from the city's nonsmoking ordinance based on their managers' claims that they could meet smoke-free standards by using displacement ventilation.

About 70 local governments in California have ordinances based on the Build It Green checklist, according to Bruce Mast, an executive of the organization.

The Justice Department is also arguing, in a case involving a baker's right not to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, that there should be an exemption to gay-rights ordinances, based on religious beliefs.

Last month, after legislation was signed in North Carolina limiting restroom access for transgender people and forbidding local governments to create their own antidiscrimination ordinances based on sexual orientation, the N.B.A. released an official statement questioning whether it could successfully host the 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte.

Women have played a leading role in that opposition, fighting for changes in the restrictive and oppressive Hudood ordinances based on Sharia law that were imposed in 1979.

So for far-right activists and legislators concerned about marriage equality and other LGBT rights, Hobby Lobby provided the perfect opportunity: Pass state RFRA laws and effectively grant a religious exemption claim from LGBT anti-discrimination laws and local ordinances, based on the Court's rewriting of RFRA's language.

The ordinance was based on one in Erie, Pa., that was upheld recently by the United States Supreme Court.

He stressed that while he did not propose the ordinance based solely on Westboro Baptist Church's presence in Topeka, he did want to send a message to the world that the church does not define the city.