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Pacific Legal Foundation Applauds California’s Move to End Home Equity Theft Loophole

October 4, 2025 7:27 amOctober 4, 2025 7:27 am

On Wednesday, October 1, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 418 by Assemblywoman Lori D. Wilson (D-Suisun City), closing a loophole that allowed California localities to seize and transfer homes to the government or nonprofits without compensating former owners...

Fighting White Supremacy Once Again, Ku Klux Klan Act is Challenging Race-based Scholarship at UCSD

August 4, 2025 10:10 amAugust 4, 2025 10:10 am

In 1871, over five years after the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Ohio Republican Congressman Samuel Shellabarger introduced the KKK Act as “An Act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.” The KKK Act was intended to...

Legal Case of Navy Diver Who Sued Newport Beach for First Amendment Violation Advances

July 28, 2025 2:30 pmJuly 28, 2025 2:31 pm

Retired Navy diver Jason Murchison recently prevailed in his lawsuit against the City of Newport Beach for violating his First Amendment rights by repeatedly refusing to allow him to give paid surfing lessons on its beaches. Represented by the Pacific...

San Diego Historian, Playwright and Actor Sues County Library for Race Discrimination

June 30, 2025 12:05 pmJuly 1, 2025 3:35 pm

Men are encouraged to call themselves women these days. But it seems a different set of rules on transitions applies when a white person tries to assume the role of a black person even for artistic purposes. San Diego native...

Mental Health Crisis Meets Unnecessary Red Tape – It’s Time For Change

May 30, 2025 10:42 amMay 30, 2025 10:42 am

Millions of Americans struggle with depression, anxiety, and addiction, among other mental health issues. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated one in five adults lives with a mental illness, yet only half of them receive treatment....

California Reparations Bill Passed in Assembly Judiciary Committee

April 23, 2025 2:45 amApril 23, 2025 2:46 am

A reparations bill aimed at giving at least 10% of funds from California Housing Finance Agency’s home purchase assistance program to qualified individuals who are descendants of formerly enslaved people continued to move up in the Assembly Judiciary Committee on...

City of Newport Beach Denies Former Navy Diver Permit to Teach Surfing on Public Beaches

March 19, 2025 1:22 pmMarch 19, 2025 3:53 pm

Former Navy diver Jason Murchison wants to give paid surfing lessons on the City of Newport Beach public beaches. But it seems that City officials are on some kind of power trip to turn the beaches into their own private...