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The Italian ban continues a steady rhythm of both cities and nations tightening regulations on Uber, though few have instituted such sweeping restrictions.

On Saturday night, Uber's New York City Twitter account announced that it was turning off surge pricing for trips at JFK airport in light of the protests against Donald Trump's executive order that bans immigrants from seven Muslim - majority countries.

Still, it's an audacious plan, not least because Billy Bishop's operations are hemmed in by its short runway and a ban on jets — part of a 1981 agreement between the city, the federal government and the Toronto Port Authority designed to protect local residents.

Euwyn Poon, a cofounder of Spin, a rival electric - scooter - sharing startup, told Business Insider his company hadn't heard anything from the city about banning electric scooters anytime soon.

When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by 120,000 people on April 24, 1865, his widow, Mary Todd Lincoln, explicitly banned shutterbugs to preserve the privacy of the solemn moment.

The legal battle pitches one of the world's richest cities against a tech giant known for its forays into new markets around the world that have prompted bans, restrictions and protests, including by drivers of London's famous black cabs.

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the controversial 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, which gives an alternative fate for Jesus Christ, was banned in numerous counties, and in the US cities that had successful bans during the film's release included: Savannah, Georgia; New Orleans; Oklahoma City; and Santa Ana, California.

Taking a page from laws creating sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants, a group of lawmakers have submitted a bill that bans California law enforcement from working with federal authorities if they attempt to take action against marijuana grow facilities or dispensaries that operate legally under state law.

The San Diego Union - Tribune puts the number of California cities and counties that have banned either the sale or cultivation of cannabis at higher than 70 %.

The case was tossed not just because of bad punctuation, but because Ms. Cammelleri argued that she was unable to understand the specifics of a city ordinance banning parking vehicles for more than twenty four hours.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 27 - A top German court ruled on Tuesday in favor of allowing major cities to ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars, a move set to hit the value of 12 million vehicles in Europe's largest car market and probably force carmakers to pay for costly modifications.

FRANKFURT / BERLIN, Feb 19 - A court will decide on Thursday whether German cities can ban heavily polluting cars, potentially wiping hundreds of millions of euros off the value of diesel cars on the country's roads.

That ban is extended to playgrounds in Amsterdam, and Rotterdam is working to reduce the number of coffee shops in the city.

Born into a nomadic tribe in the Syrian desert to a poor mother who was raped by his father and died when he was young, Altrad was raised by his grandmother, who banned him from attending school, in Raqqa, the city that is now capital of ISIS.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 27 - German cities can ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars from their streets, a court ruled on Tuesday, a move likely to be mirrored in other parts of Europe and to force automakers to pay to improve exhaust systems or switch to cleaner vehicles.

Some had a hard time getting there — New York City cab drivers had chosen to suspend their service in protest of the ban, while the subway service was being monitored by the NYPD.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 22 - A German court on Thursday delayed a ruling on whether major cities can ban heavily polluting diesel cars, which could hit the resale value of 15 million vehicles in Europe's largest car market and force automakers to pay for costly modifications.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has become New York City's nutritional nag, banning the use of trans fats, forcing chain restaurants to post calorie counts and exhorting diners to consume less salt.

The issues reached a point where officials in Oakland, California, debated whether to ban use of the platform by city departments.

Over the weekend, San Francisco and Seattle mayors announced executive orders banning the use of city funds for employee travel to Indiana.

Following allegations of rape, Uber has been banned in India, Spain and various other European cities.

In June 2009, as a response to widespread calls for bans or other anti-bag measures from environmental groups, the city of Toronto required that all local stores charge 5 cents for every plastic bag they handed out.

Uber framed the issue as unfitting for Cambridge, writing: «For a city known for its innovation and progressiveness, it is shocking that Cambridge would cling so blindly to the past and ban an innovation that thousands of its residents and small businesses value and use on a daily basis.»

In cities and towns where voters opposed legalization, elected bodies such as town councils or boards of selectmen can impose a ban without polling residents.

Marijuana companies will be banned from a majority of cities and towns in Massachusetts when recreational sales begin this summer, a Globe review has found, the latest indication that there will be fewer pot stores in the early going than many consumers expected.

A South Miami city commission candidate is banned from a Coral Gables Publix after the manager said he shoplifted and ran out of the store.

Merchants want new rental services for bicycles that don't need to be returned to a shop or docking station to be banned until rules can be created for them.City officials sent the city's operators a list of rules that apply to all businesses this week.Supporters say the bikes have changed perceptions...

Consumers in 75 % of California communities have no local access to cannabis because of city or county bans.

In New York City, a coalition of labor, community and civil rights groups recently won the strongest ban on employment credit checks in the country.

Coral Gables, which also joined the lawsuit, dropped a plan last month to ban the sale of military - style rifles, saying it would open the city up to lawsuits.

As a former city councilor, Selina advocated for the rights of taxpayers, fought to protect the health of children and families by introducing a local ban on cosmetic pesticides and worked to improve access for people with disabilities as chair of the Coquitlam Universal Access - Ability Advisory Committee.

Romy Tittel, Leader of the Green Party of Alberta and Catriona Wright, Shadow Cabinet member for Sustainable Towns and Cities, strongly encourages the Alberta Government to quickly adopt the following in order to keep recyclables out of the landfill: An immediate plastic bag ban.

Councilor Rachelle Armstrong said that this period may be too long, and feared that the ban could be introduced at the expense of city businesses.

The number is virtually unchanged (71 %) from when Ipsos / World Vision asked the same question in October, before the City of Lights experienced tragedy and American politicians began debating state bans on Syrian refugees in response.

New York (CNN)- One week after New York's Department of Education drew controversy with a request to ban 50 words and references from the city's standardized tests — including «dinosaur,» «birthday» and «religion» — the department announced Tuesday that it is abandoning the plan.

The ban didn't come soon enough to save the thousands of Jews crucified outside Jerusalem when they tried to leave the besieged city in AD70.

A new report from Lord Darzi says hundreds of children in London take up smoking every week and that the city should lead the way with these bans, which could become a blueprint for the rest of Britain.

The banned word list was made public — and attracted considerable criticism — when the city's education department recently released this year's «request for proposal» The request for proposal is sent to test publishers around the country trying to get the job of revamping math and English tests for the City of New Ycity's education department recently released this year's «request for proposal» The request for proposal is sent to test publishers around the country trying to get the job of revamping math and English tests for the City of New YCity of New York.

The New York city based Watchtower sect is concerned foremost with liability lawsuits for wrongful death.They know that if they repeal the ban on * whole * blood transfusion, that it will open the door for legal examination of all the thousands who have died since 1945.

By way of sharpest contrast to the ban on depictions of God in Judaism and Islam, the Greek gods and goddesses are nearly as omnipresent to a Greek city as billboards are in today's city.

There was no attempt to protect civilian population: Israel engaged in the ban, or herein, in which every inhabitant of a conquered city was killed: men, women, the old, little children (Josh.

In connection with wars which Yahweh orders, we must pause to consider the ban, or herem, the custom of destroying cities utterly, leaving no one alive: man, woman, or child.

Consider some aspects of the American history of racial and ethnic relations: Systematic racial segregation emerged in the South after the failure of Reconstruction, while in the 1880s a growing California banned Chinese immigration and in the early twentieth century ethnic politics, often bitter and sometimes violent, dominated major American cities.

Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has banned regular, sugary soda from any vending machines found on city property.

Housing: In New York City, Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a school under Orthodox Jewish auspices, banned same - sex couples from its married dormitory.

City officials have voted to ban possession of ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets.

An official decree banning all western music was issued on 22 August by a heavily bearded Islamist spokesman in the city of Gao.

Zambia has banned all church services in parts of its capital city Lusaka, as the African nation fights... More

The proposed content fitted exactly with Luther's own views and his own understanding of the situation, so he duly wrote it, giving his reasons for returning and stating specifically: «I know that my coming to reside in Your Electoral Grace's city is without Your Electoral Grace's knowledge or consent» and saying that he realised the danger for the Elector and for himself «banned and condemned by papal and Imperial law as I am, and expecting death at any moment».