v. City of Los Angeles.”[22] The court’s decisions reflect a near-uniform record of holding that charter city taxes are municipal affairs, and the court itself has all but said that such taxes are definitively within the Article XI, section 7 charter power. Conclusion The court endorsed ...
Defining New York, Chicago or Los Angeles is easier said than done. Where the border between a dense urban industrial, cultural and political center and the outside world was clear a century ago this is no longer the case. Take any major American metro area today and there will be both ...