Sugary drink tax a sugary drink tax alone. In March 2017, Pepsi laid off between 80 and 100 employees at two distribution plants in Philadelphia and one plant in nearby Wilmington, Delaware. The company blamed the layoffs on the tax, an assertion rejected by the city government. In September 2016, the American Beverage Association, Philadelphia business owners, and other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the soda tax, alleging that the tax violated the "Tax Uniformity Clause" of the state constitution. The legal challenge was dismissed by the Court of Common Pleas in December 2016, and in June 2017 the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Brighton Kemptown (UK Parliament constituency) Brighton Kemptown (UK Parliament constituency) Brighton Kemptown is a constituency created in 1950 in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament covering the eastern portion of the city of Brighton and Hove including Kemptown and part of the Lewes District. Since 2017, the constituency has been represented by Lloyd Russell-Moyle of the Labour Party. Save for two elections in 1974 when the seat leant to the right bucking the national result, the affiliation of the winning candidate was that of the winning party nationally for the years 1951 to 2015 – a bellwether. Brighton Kemptown is one of two