Judging from the court docket, there’s been a four-month period of comparative legal silence in the copyright violation lawsuit by the International Code Council, which publishes the model building code widely used in North America, against UpCodes, a San Francisco-based company that provides searchable databases of published state and local building codes and related tools for designers.
Seattle and King County, Wash., want to block voted-in ballot initiative that would blow a half-billion-dollar hole in funding plans and delay city's light-rail system expansion.