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More than 75 people visited Chicago Police headquarters Monday to pick up applications to register firearms on the day the city's new handgun ordinance took effect. The ordinance, which requires gun owners to keep their weapons in their homes, was hastily crafted by the city after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the city's 28-year-old handgun ban....

“The goal is to start managing the homeless population within our city,” said Chief James Wickham. Wickham asked council members to pass a no-camping ordinance. “It just basically means you can’t set up a tent. You can’t live in your vehicle. You can’t live in the woods in Nevada City,” he said. That is unless you have a permit.

The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit challenging a government regulation that unconstitutionally restricts photography on federal property, including public plazas and sidewalks.

Federal Court Upholds the Herding of Demonstrators Into “Free Speech Zones”

Small town city council wants to ban people from gathering together to discuss city matters without approval from the city government

AP) - A South Carolina jail was sued Wednesday over its policy barring inmates from having any reading materials except the Bible.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the policy on behalf of Prison Legal News, a monthly journal on prison law. The 16-page complaint says officials at the Berkeley County jail in Moncks Corner, about 100 miles southeast of Columbia, are violating several of the magazine's and inmates' constitutional rights including free speech, freedom of religion and right to due process.

Chief U.S. District Judge Curtis L. Collier in East Tennessee blocked East Ridge from enforcing a ban on fortunetellers Oct. 8, hours after Candice Wohlfeil, a disabled grandmother who describes herself as a “spiritualist,” filed a lawsuit that says the ordinance violates her free-speech rights.

A man in New York was sentenced to 15 days in jail for violating his city's ordinance regulating electronic billboard messages.

The City of Tampa has removed the proposed “Clean Zone” ordinance for the 2012 National Convention from the tampagov.net website.