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Jurisdiction in Limited Cases in California

January 31, 2025 2:30 amJanuary 31, 2025 2:31 am

Code of Civil Procedure Part 1, Title 1, Chapter 5.1, Article 1 deals with the jurisdiction of limited civil cases in our courts of justice. Section 85 provides that a law that classified an action or special proceeding as a...

Labor Suits Against Employers

May 22, 2023 5:07 amMay 22, 2023 5:08 am

Labor Code Division 2, Part 3.5, Chapter 7 concerns suit involving employer and labor organizations. Section 1165 provides that suits for violation of contracts between an agricultural employer and an agricultural labor organization representing agricultural employees, or between any labor...

New Overtime Law for Agriculture Workers Was Never About the Workers

January 9, 2023 8:10 amJanuary 10, 2023 3:42 pm

After many failed attempts to unionize more agricultural workers in California, Gov. Jerry Brown instead signed into law Assembly Bill 1066 in 2016 by then-Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), to require overtime pay of time-and-a-half for farm employees working more than eight...

Catholic Church Files Motions to Make ‘Child Sexual Assault’ Law Unconstitutional

January 30, 2021 2:18 amFebruary 2, 2021 1:19 pm

This week, the Catholic Church filed motions in the Northern and Southern Superior Courts to remove the AB 218 law. Assembly Bill 218, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) was passed by the legislature and signed into law by...

Amazon Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Rules CA Appellate Court

August 14, 2020 2:30 pmAugust 17, 2020 5:19 am

On Thursday, California’s 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana found that Amazon.com can now be held liable for injury for selling defective products from third party sellers in its online marketplace. The ruling has grouped Amazon with other...

Ventura County Judge Censured for 8 Years of ‘sexist’ and ‘profane’ language

March 26, 2020 4:40 pmMarch 26, 2020 4:41 pm

Ventura County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Bennett was censured on Wednesday by the state Commission on Judicial Performance after years of ‘sexist’, ‘profane’, and ‘demeaning’ language used in the court. Judge Bennett, who has been on the Superior Court since...

California’s Judicial Branch of Government

March 11, 2019 6:33 amMarch 11, 2019 6:35 am

Overview Just like the federal government, California has three branches of government: legislative, executive and judicial. Article VI of the state constitution provides for the judicial branch of government. As we learned in our high school civics course, the judicial...