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Jersey City Council reviews $4M budget for ‘profoundly understaffed’ law dept.

The Jersey City Council held a budget hearing for the $4,059,803 allocated to the Law Department in the preliminary $886.5 million spending plan that comes with a 15.5 percent tax...

What NYC Co-op and Condo Boards Need to Know About Corporate Transparency Act Exemptions

Infrastructure Head Says Unfilled Positions Delaying Projects, Accounting Has Been Fixed

At a Wednesday hearing before the City Council, the Infrastructure Department offered up a defense of its proposed $7.65 million operating budget for 2026, more than double the dep...

Kochi Corporation writes to Railways seeking lease of land for High Court parking facility

Former Milwaukee city attorney testifies in misconduct trial

Former Milwaukee City Attorney Tearman Spencer testified in his misconduct trial, denying he broke the law by seeking city staff guidance on a property issue. The post Former Milwa...

Honolulu Special Funds

This week we will be discussing some of the proposals on the ballot in Honolulu that have been put forward by the Honolulu Charter Commission.  (If you are in another county, don’t...

DLGF Confirms General Counsel Post Is Vacant as Property-Tax Law Takes Effect; OMB Attorneys Providing Interim Review

A week after Indy Politics reported that the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance was operating without in-house counsel as a major property-tax law took ...

Campaign Spending Commission Files Civil Complaint Against Sylvia Luke - Honolulu Civil Beat

Campaign Spending Commission Files Civil Complaint Against Sylvia Luke - Honolulu Civil Beat

DC “ATTORNEY GENERAL SCHWALB ANNOUNCES PUBLIC CORRUPTION CHARGES AGAINST 6 MPD MEMBERS FOR WIDESPREAD OVERTIME FRAUD SCH...

From the Office of the Attorney General (OAG): “Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today announced that warrants were signed seeking the arrest of six members of the Metropolitan Po...

Applicants sought for four vacancies on County of Maui Liquor Control Adjudication Board

Maui County residents are encouraged to apply for four vacancies on the County of Maui Liquor Control Adjudication Board, a volunteer board that plays an important role in ensuring...

Department of Administration Budget Grows Despite Fiscal Crisis, Drawing Council Scrutiny

The Jersey City Department of Administration defended a proposed $17.3 million budget for 2026 during Monday morning’s departmental budget hearing, fielding questions from City Cou...

Local Counsel for Civil Fraud Case in PUERTO RICO

Limited Scope Local Counsel Needed — Active Federal Case, D.P.R. I am seeking a Puerto Rico-barred attorney admitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico for...

Tension Between U.S. Supreme Court and Hawaii Supreme Court

Lawyer Discipline

The Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR), an agency of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, provides these summaries. The OLR assists the court in supervising the practice of law and protecti...

Joint hearing slated for 2 Honolulu City Council election challenges

The Hawaii Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Tuesday in two cases contesting recent Hawaii primary election results for a Honolulu City Council seat held by Tommy...

Fired Maui County official sues Mayor Bissen, Board of Ethics for defamation

In a lawsuit, Luana Mahi says the allegations that she improperly oversaw grants that benefitted her family members were based on "inaccurate" information and they publicly tarnish...

DC Attorney General “sued the owners of two apartment complexes in Ward 1 for allowing their buildings to fall into extr...

From the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), led by Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb: “Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb sued the owners of two apartment complexes in Ward 1 […]

UPDATE- Former Public Works employee suing county

UPDATE- Former Public Works employee suing county

Council Looks to Raising Revenue During Housing, Economic Development, Commerce Budget Hearing

For the second week, members of the City Council scrutinized municipal department budgets looking for ways to reduce a $255 million deficit and avoid a 15% tax increase proposed by...

Board of Fire And Police Commission Had No Jurisdiction to Hear Disciplinary Charges

An Illinois Appellate Court held that a board of fire and police commissioners did not have jurisdiction to hear disciplinary charges against a police officer because the hearing w...

DLGF Without In-House Counsel as Property Tax Law Takes Effect

The Indiana Department of Local Government Finance is operating without an in-house attorney, the agency confirmed this week, as counties begin implementing a property tax ...

Ozawa presses for ruling in suit over Council term

Honolulu City Council candidate Trevor Ozawa is asking a state judge to declare Council Chair Tommy Waters ineligible to seek a third consecutive term representing East Honolulu’s...

Finance Head Testifies to Reforming Processes, Rethinking Job Roles, Driving Revenues

At a Tuesday budget hearing, Finance Director Bill Viqueira talked of modernizing his department while putting together a responsible budget.  Viqueira pitched a $6.01 million prop...

Attorneys for U.S. government request city, county lawsuits against Army Corps be consolidated 

Lawyers for the U.S. government requested last week that a judge consolidate two similar lawsuits, one by the city of Salem and the other by Marion County, against the U.S. Army Co...