Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. This is the third in a series of posts about whether and how state ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. What can be done to protect the ability of private property owners to ...

As laboratories of democracy, local governments are incubators for innovative policies with the potential to improve health and reduce health inequities. Local policy change is often grounded in a ...

The federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 governs the administration of employee benefit plans and is noteworthy in that it includes an extremely broad preemption clause. The ...

LGBTQ advocates are sounding the alarm about how the legal doctrine of preemption is being used to prevent local progress for equality in red states. Some red states are working to undermine local ...

Every two years we optimistically go to the polls and vote for the state representative and/or senator we think will best represent our interests before the legislature. And for the next two or four ...

Terms like "preemption" and "home rule" may be unfamiliar to many outside the political sphere Those terms relate to how much, how little local government has in making rules affecting residents ...

JURIST Guest Columnists, Sarah Wetter and James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discuss preemptive legal schemes that deprive states and localities ...

In Kansas v. Garcia, the state of Kansas appeals the Kansas Supreme Court’s ruling that the federal Immigration Reform and Control Act preempts the state’s prosecution, under state identity- and ...