On wednesday, the board ruled that the viaduct. · as violent crime continues to drop nationwide and even more so in philly , according to recent data, we continue to believe that this matter is fundamentally an attack on democracy and on philadelphia voters, not about public safety. · the court based the fulton ruling on its finding that philadelphia ’s anti-discrimination ordinance failed the test of “general applicability” because it left room for case-by-case exceptions by city officials. · the supreme court unanimously ruled on thursday that philadelphia cannot force a catholic group to certify same-sex couples as foster parents without violating the first amendment. Many laws affected by the power act already prohibit retaliation, including the paid sick leave ordinance. · philadelphia had fought css over its refusal to consider same-sex married couples as potential foster parents since march 2018 when an investigative piece by the philadelphia inquirer revealed that css had an anti-lgbtq policy with regard to foster parents. These retaliation provisions in the individual ordinances have been streamlined by the power act under the newly created protecting victims of retaliation ordinance. Last year, the city petitioned the surface transportation board, a federal agency charged with economic regulation of freight rail, for a ruling.

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