Local Goverment Law Report
Today the U.S. Supreme Court held that under the Indian Reorganization Act, the Interior cannot take land into trust for tribes seeking to avoid town's land use controls if the tribe was not federally recognized as of 1934 (per Carcieri v. Salazar) and that a state is free to forbid its local governments to provide payroll deductions for transmittal to unions for political activities (see Ysursa v. Pocatello Education Association).
Also, yesterday the Eleventh Circuit found that police cordon around protest rally allegedly so far from the rally point that the public and press could not hear what was going on likely violated the First Amendment . (See Amnesty International, USA v. Battle).
