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8 Aug 2022, 1:00 pm
In response to today’s announcement by Governor Newsom, California Film Commission Executive Director Colleen Bell stated that the Commission stands ready to help all projects – including those that reject states where fundamental rights are under assault – make the most of all that California has to offer. [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]
16 Apr 2004, 3:55 pm
Voting 33-3 in favor of a workers' compensation bill, California's senate joined the state's house, which earlier today passed the bill by an overwhelming 77-3 vote. [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]
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]
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]
30 Apr 2004, 1:58 pm
The Supreme Court of California Thursday made it more difficult for custodial parents to move out-of-state with children over the objections of the other parent. [read post]
28 Aug 2005, 2:56 am
[JURIST] California Attorney General Bill Lockyer [official profile] is seeking a court order requiring warning labels on foods [AG's press release] that contains acrylamide [research materials], a chemical found in potato chips and french fries that the state believes may cause cancer. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 2:46 pm
Only four state officials – the governor, treasurer, controller and lieutenant governor [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]
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]
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]
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]
21 Nov 2019, 6:00 am
As we have written about in past posts, the issue of inverse condemnation remains on the forefront in the state given the continuing, severe wildfire risks and other climate change impacts. [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]
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]
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]
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]
23 Dec 2005, 12:34 pm
In a ruling issued Wednesday, US District Court Judge Ronald Whyte stated the industry groups were likely to succeed [read post]
15 Feb 2006, 4:22 am
[JURIST] A US federal judge in California has ruled [opinion, PDF] that the state must change the drugs it uses when executing prisoners, because the current method may constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. [read post]
