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How To Avoid A "Holy War" -- Dealing With Potential Rluipa Claims, Alan C. Weinstein
How To Avoid A "Holy War" -- Dealing With Potential Rluipa Claims, Alan C. Weinstein
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This article discusses how local government can seek to avoid a claim being brought against it under the Religious Land Use & Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). Thus, the focus is not on what steps a local government should take when a RLUIPA claim is brought - or threatened to be brought - against it, but focuses instead on what steps local governments should take to seek to avoid a RLUIPA claim in the first place. After reviewing both the changing context of religious observance in the United States, and RLUIPA decisions to date, the article concludes that we are clearly …
Reclaiming Abandoned Properties: Using Public Nuisance Suits And Land Banks To Pursue Economic Redevelopment, Mathew J. Samsa
Reclaiming Abandoned Properties: Using Public Nuisance Suits And Land Banks To Pursue Economic Redevelopment, Mathew J. Samsa
Cleveland State Law Review
The dangers posed by abandoned and vacant properties present a matter of primary concern for municipalities, especially in older, industrial cities. Addressing these issues requires innovative methods and long-term planning. This Note examines the methods of attacking abandonment. Part II, describes the problems presented by abandoned and vacant housing. Part III examines the effectiveness of code enforcement and traditional tax foreclosure. Part IV analyzes privatized nuisance abatement suits and receiverships. Part V discusses land banks. Part VI argues that using broadly empowered privatized nuisance abatement suits for individual parcels and land banks for mass acquisitions is the most effective means …
Natural Is Not In It: Disaster, Race, And The Built Environment, Thomas W. Joo
Natural Is Not In It: Disaster, Race, And The Built Environment, Thomas W. Joo
Cleveland State Law Review
Reviewing After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina edited by David Dante Troutt. New York: New Press. 2006. Editor David Troutt has assembled a fascinating and wide-ranging collection of essays on the Katrina disaster. The contributing authors, primarily (though not exclusively) law professors, put the disaster into a larger context of American law and politics. While the authors' concerns and opinions are diverse, the interaction between human choice and the "natural" is a consistent theme running through the background of the book.