{"article":{"id":273207,"heading":"San Jose affordable housing law headed to U.S. Supreme Court","author":"Howard Mintz","created":"2015-09-18 12:12:08","modified":"2015-09-19 20:45:52","last_modified":"Sun, 20 Sep 2015 03:45:52","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>San Jose affordable housing law headed to U.S. Supreme Court by Howard Mintz, Sept 15, 2015 <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/crime-courts\/ci_28816160\/san-jose-affordable-housing-law-headed-u-s?source=infinite\">http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/crime-courts\/ci_28816160\/san-jose-affordable-housing-law-headed-u-s?source=infinite<\/a> <br><br> The California building industry has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its legal challenge to a San Jose affordable housing law upheld earlier this year by the state Supreme Court. <br><br> In a petition filed Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers for the industry argue that San Jose's law and others like it across California violate federal constitutional protections against the \"taking\" of private property. The Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative Sacramento group representing the industry, has taken its fight to the nation's high court.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"marc1seed@yahoo.com","link":"www.freembtranslations.net","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Wealth is really socially produced. The state takes enormous risks and makes massive investments in schools, hospitals, roads, food safety and environmental care to make private wealth possible. Tax justice, closing tax havens and public investment are vital.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2015\/09\/273207.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}