good moral character for firearms possession," Judge Pauley wrote.

Mr. DiNapoli's suit argued that the police department places illegal administrative obstacles between people and firearm licenses, by requiring repeated visits to One Police Plaza to submit paperwork or attend hearings and interviews.

Mr. DiNapoli's suit claims that his disabilities  he suffers from joint disease, back trouble, and vertigo  render him unable to travel to One Police Plaza from his home in the Bronx to attend the hearings relating to his case.

In court papers, Mr. DiNapoli explains his complaint by quoting directly from the Declaration of Independence. He accuses the police department of holding inconvenient hearings "for the sole purpose of fatiguing" people "into compliance," one of the grievances listed against King George III. Mr. DiNapoli is a formersource of litigation between Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. In 2002, the Supreme Court decided that groundwater pumping by Nebraska caused reduced instream flows in Kansas. As a result, groundwater management districts in Nebraska were forced to introduce a variety of restrictions: moratoria on new wells (introduced in 1999), metering of existing ones, and volumetric pumping restrictions.
The data for this research include all agricultural parcels in Chase County, Nebraska that sold between 2000 and 2008, obtained from the Chase County tax assessor’s website. Each parcel contains sale prices along with the new ownership and sales date. In addition, the presence of outbuildings and the square footage and age of residences are included. Each observation also includes the distribution of agricultural land (irrigated, dryland or grassland) and four soil quality