The new trend since the Michael Vick case of allowing dogs seized from fight busts to be evaluated and adopted out or transferred to rescue groups.

More and more cities are facing lawsuits from police shooting family pets.

More cities are enacting reckless or problem pet owner ordinances to prevent bad owners from owning pets and repealing their breed discriminatory or breed specific laws.

The unintended fiscal costs of enacting ordinances that target breed not behavior.

In conjunction with the 100th ICMA Annual Conference in September, a panel examined the local challenges associated with changes in marijuana policy.

While the Supreme Court’s next term officially begins on October 6, its “long conference” is September 29. At this conference the Court will review a backlog of petitions that have been piling up over the summer.