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Oceanside is proposing to loosen regulations on tattoo parlors as the body art becomes more popular and new shops have asked to open.
“Currently, the Municipal Code limits tattoo businesses to one per 50,000 residents, but this has not been enforced by the city due to concerns with First Amendment protections,” City Planner Jeff Hunt said by email Tuesday.
As a result, the planning staff has recommended the City Council delete the population limit and amend its zoning provisions to better accommodate the businesses. The city has four licensed tattoo shops.
In addition to the population limits, the city allows tattoo establishments only in certain types of commercial and industrial zones. The locations also must meet separation requirements from similar businesses, residential areas, churches and other activities.
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) – Be more specific, a federal judge is demanding of class action lawyers who claim Nestle made misleading statements about the origin of the cocoa it uses.
San Diego judge James Lorenz on March 30 granted Nestle’s motion to dismiss the case but allowed lawyers representing plaintiff Renee Walker to amend. She is represented by Coast Law Group, Schonbrun Seplow and Reese LLP.
When those lawyers included pictures of Nestle products with the allegedly misleading statements, they never said which, if any, were actually purchased by their client.
“She does not allege that she purchased any of the products shown in the photographs,” Lorenz wrote. “Without this information it is impossible to infer what was stated on the labels of the products she purchased, and how the statements were presented on the labels.
The Los Cerritos Wetlands at Steam Shovel Slough, in the Los Angeles region. (Credit: Cec4711 via Wikipedia)
LOS ANGELES (CN) For years, the Los Cerritos Wetlands have weathered poor environmental management and oil drilling projects. A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge on Thursday denied a challenge to an oil construction development in the city of Long Beach that is expected to coincide with a 150-acre wetlands restoration project that was approved by the California Coastal Commission.
An environmental nonprofit group sued the commission, arguing they abused their power when they approved the project, which involves a land swap between the oil operators and property owners.