Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, officials say the city's 2010 audit should be finished sometime in November. But they add that little work has been done on the 2011 audit because the city is late on payments to the firm hired to do that audit. The city is on track to run a $12 million deficit this year.
A newspaper staffed by the country's most famous journalism school says it shouldn't have covered a Jeff Sessions event.
"You have a situation where a person owed $8 and lost their house. I mean, how is that equitable?" asked Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein.
A state law allows counties to effectively steal homes over unpaid taxes and keep the excess revenue for their own budgets.
The Eighth Amendment prohibition against excessive fines and fees applies to states as well, SCOTUS rules, opening a new way to challenge outlandish forfeitures.
Half-truths about American Indians' environmental ethic obscure the rational ways in which they have lived with and shaped the natural world.
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