With continued disagreement among courts in the U.S., the Kentucky Supreme Court has weighed in on the side of finding short term rentals of property to be more like hotels than home ownership or residential leasing and so does not qualify as a "residential" use prohibited by a covenant that prohibits nonresidential uses of the land.. Hensley v. Gadd, 560 S.W.3d...
The Minnesota Supreme Court has held that a state statute that prohibits landlords from refusing to rent to housing voucher (Section 8) recipients does not violate the due process or equal protection clauses of the Minnesota Constitution. Fletcher Properties, Inc. v. City of Minneapolis, 947 N.W.2d 1 (Minn. 2020). While federal law does not require landlords to rent to...
Tiembla en Paseo de la Reforma. El Ángel de la Independencia se encuentra blindado por mamparas azules de más de tres metros de altura; los centros comerciales y los bancos también se han protegido con vallas. Se siente la fuerza, la...
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN PONG FILM AND SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHY LAB, MEDIATED BY THE GRADUATE RESEARCH TRAINING GROUP “DOCUMENTARY PRACTICES: EXCESS AND PRIVATION”
What does it mean to conceptualize the making of a documentary film as collaborative work? Can we understand collaboration as a reflexive lens that also attends to the power relations and social differentiations inherent within the film’s fabrication? Such is the proposition of this event. Through this frame we aim to emphasize not only the formal aesthetics of the cinematic object, but also its...
A federal judge for the Western District of New York has ruled that the state public accommodations statute can be applied to a wedding photographer who refused to provide services for same-sex couples. Carpenter v. James, 2021 WL 5879090 (W.D.N.Y. 2021). On the speech claim, the court assumed that the law compelled speech on the part of the photographer but held that...