A resident, Janet Ramos, challenged the ordinance on behalf of her sons Angel and Richard.
The following year, this progressive piece of legislation was obliterated when, by a two-to-one margin, voters approved a charter revision (Article 12) that specifically prohibited the city from enforcing the human-rights ordinance on behalf of gays and bisexuals and forbade the council to pass any future gay-rights legislation.
The bureau was used as a tool of the powerful Fujiwara family for issuing official ordinances on behalf of the emperor.
They've gotten some support: the Chicago Sun-Times editorialized on behalf of the ordinance, and mayoral hopefuls James Meeks and Miguel del Valle have both expressed their hope that the bill will pass.
Yesterday, the ACLU, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and the law firm Pepper Hamilton filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Ms. Briggs, challenging the ordinance.
But Maggie Ellinger-Locke, a lawyer suing on behalf of individuals charged under that ordinance, said arguments in the case, which the county has already been dragging out, will not take place until Sept. 1.
At around 11 p.m., one protester spoke to the police on behalf of the crowd, negotiating an agreement that if protesters could remain quiet -- apparently to comply with a noise ordinance -- and remain on sidewalks, then the arrested protesters would be released immediately.
Weitzel wrote the letter to Preckwinkle on behalf of the West Suburban Police Chiefs Association, which expresses alarm that the ordinance makes detainers optional for felony charges as well as misdemeanors.
The judge, James C. Chalfant of Superior Court, granted an injunction on behalf of Westside Green Oasis, a medical marijuana shop, which had challenged a Los Angeles ordinance that put a moratorium on new dispensaries in 2007.
On behalf of the ACLU of Colorado, I write in opposition to the proposed city-wide ordinance to prohibit unauthorized camping ("the Ordinance").
A federal appeals court has struck down an ordinance that created two types of buffer zones around medical facilities after a Christian legal group challenged the law on behalf of a nurse who protests abortions.
