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28 Mar 2020, 8:00 am
The only way to make sense of it all is to recognize that the policy of the state of California is to place a child’s needs as the top priority. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 1:57 pm
Green begets green – at least insofar as the California cannabis industry is concerned. [read post]
11 May 2013, 1:02 pm
Although California became the first state in the country to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes, the drug remains illegal under federal law. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 12:12 pm
Many California employees received a raise on January 1, 2019 when the state increased the minimum wage to $12 per hour for large employers (26 employees or more) and $11 per hour for small employers (25 employees or fewer). [read post]
19 Feb 2004, 12:20 am
A Superior Court judge in Sacramento County California Wednesday declined to issue a restraining order to prevent the use of electronic voting machines in the state's upcoming March 2 primary election, saying that 13 days before the vote he was not convinced by arguments that the machines were vulnerable to hackers. [read post]
7 May 2020, 4:00 am
Newsom, (ED CA, May 5, 2020), a California federal district court refused to enter a temporary restraining order against enforcement of state and county COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 10:40 am
[JURIST] California Attorney General Jerry Brown [official website] formally notified [letter, PDF; press release] the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] Thursday that the state would file a lawsuit against the agency if it refused to issue rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from ships, aircraft, industrial and agricultural machinery, and other vehicles. [read post]
17 Jan 2006, 5:37 am
[JURIST] A California school district has agreed to stop teaching a philosophy class [AU press release] discussing intelligent design theory [Natural History backgrounder; JURIST news archive] as part of a settlement agreement filed Tuesday, according to the legal director for the Americans United for Separation of Church and State [advocacy website]. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 9:09 am
Beginning Jan. 1, the California stem cell agency is expected to start bringing aboard a number of new employees as the 50-person cap on staff is lifted by a new state law. [read post]
20 Sep 2006, 4:14 pm
[JURIST] The state of California filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit [complaint, PDF] against six leading US and Japanese car manufacturers on Wednesday, alleging that vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases [EPA backgrounder] from cars made by the companies have contributed to global warming constituting a 'public nuisance' that has cost it millions of dollars. [read post]
2 Mar 2008, 3:55 am
., Feb. 28, 2008), a California state appellate court rejected the claim by parents that they have a First Amendment right to home school their children because of their sincerely held religious beliefs "based on Biblical teachings and principles". [read post]
28 Jun 2004, 8:28 pm
In upholding the registry, the state Supreme Court [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 8:17 am
[JURIST] Chief Justice Ronald George [official profile] of the California Supreme Court told the state's Judiciary Council on Friday that the Supreme Court is withdrawing a proposed constitutional amendment [PDF text] aimed at expediting death penalty appeals by allowing the Supreme Court to transfer death penalty appeals to the intermediate appellate courts, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 5:21 pm
The state's top fiscal officer, who has a special role in connection with the California stem cell agency, this afternoon called for cancellation of this week's election of a new CIRM chair, declaring that the current process is fundamentally flawed. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 5:38 am
The details are here.The purpose of the meeting is to allow members of the public "to inform the newly appointed California State Labor Commissioner, Angela Bradstreet, of their concerns regarding how recent changes to the meal and rest period enforcement practices required by legislation and recent court decisions has impacted their daily work-lives. [read post]
18 Apr 2006, 12:46 pm
New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber [official profile] said the state's lawsuit [NJ AG news release] against R.J. [read post]
23 Sep 2003, 12:14 pm
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that California's October 7 recall vote should go ahead as scheduled, overturning an earlier panel ruling to postpone it. [read post]
19 Mar 2004, 2:15 am
In court papers filed Thursday, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera asked the California Supreme Court to allow the city to resume gay marriages while the state court system deliberates on their constitutionality, a process that could take over a year. [read post]
24 May 2011, 6:03 am
New York Times WASHINGTON — Conditions in California’s overcrowded prisons are so bad that they violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, ordering the state to reduce its prison population by more than 30,000 inmates. [read post]
27 Jan 2007, 9:48 am
[JURIST] The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) [official website] has unanimously approved a regulation that will prohibit utilities from buying electricity produced by power plants whose emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) [EPA backgrounder] exceed the state's standards. [read post]
