Counties and municipalities are responsible for ensuring public safety at the many parades, festivals and special activities that may take place in their communities.

Whether the U.S. Constitution requires states to give a credit for taxes paid on income earned out-of-state.

The State and Local Legal Center (SLLC) filed an amicus brief in Plumhoff v. Rickard where the Supreme Court will decide whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity for the use of deadly force in a high speed chase.

These cases implicate an issue with unique importance for local governments. In the present cases, the Court is asked to decide whether for-profit, closely held secular corporations may invoke the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, to assert that they must not be required to comply with the federal government’s regulations implementing the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The forces that perpetuate the status quo are powerful and changes often are temporary and evolutionary, not permanent and revolutionary.

February 11, 2014 As anticipation mounts that Detroit will file a plan to adjust its debt with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court next week and with the ongoing confusion of public pensions, bond holders, and in the case of Detroit, art, PensionDialog spoke with Mr. Robert D. Klausner to better understand the basics of municipal bankruptcy...

Since Detroit declared bankruptcy in 2013, many have questioned the overall financial condition of state and local governments(...)

ICMA and a coalition of state and local government associations wrote a letter to the editor regarding the SEC's proposal to reform money market mutual funds (MMMFs).

ICMA joined the State and Local Legal Center’s (SLLC) amicus brief in Wood v. Moss...