The Latest Breaking News from State Law

The account posted items such as (in mid-2020), "ASU: No More Social Distancing. No More Masks. It Is Time to Party!"

Petoskey's draft ordinance would require both "legitimate" fortunetellers and people pretending to tell fortunes to be licensed, calling into question the sense of licensing at all.

A state law bans it -- but that law is very likely unconstitutional (though a different version of such a ban would have been constitutional).

Kentucky’s Democratic governor has filed a lawsuit to block a new state law that gives Republican officials the power to appoint the majority of members to an ethics commission.

Millions of Americans will lose access to abortion care if Supreme Court reverses landmark ruling

Officials in Gallatin County, Montana, say a state law that prohibits local governments from forcing businesses to turn customers away is preventing it from cracking down on zoning code violators.

An Illinois law bans schools from fining students, so local police are doing it for them

MIAMI — As Florida legislators were rushing through passage of a bill to repeal the special district that governs Walt Disney World last week, they failed to notice an obscure provision in state law that says the state could not do what legislators were doing — unless the district’s bond…

PTS had sought to move its Consume dispensary from 6428 N. Milwaukee Ave. to 605 N. Clark St. Yet the plan was doomed by state law, so the firm is now partnering with a social equity firm in attempt to open at the former tourist attraction.