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San Diego Surf School Owner Sues Over California State Beaches Monopolizing Surf Instruction

October 22, 2025 10:46 amOctober 22, 2025 12:12 pm

California state beaches are supposed to belong to the public. So should government bureaucrats really have unbridled power to crimp commercial activity on them? San Diego surf school owner Helina Beck apparently does not think so. Beck wants to teach...

San Diego First-Time Homebuyers Sue for Equal Treatment Under the Law

March 14, 2025 7:00 amMarch 14, 2025 7:01 am

Whites need not apply. But now they can. In the face of a lawsuit by the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, the San Diego Housing Commission is no longer limiting its financial assistance program for first-time home buyers to blacks...

Federal Judge Safeguards Teachers Right to Say ‘No’ to California’s Gender Secrecy Policy

February 2, 2025 9:53 amFebruary 3, 2025 9:17 am

Separating parents from their kids is a pernicious–really unnatural–proposition. But that is what California state policy requiring schools to keep secret from parents kids’ gender transitions effectuates. Now, that policy has suffered a serious setback with a federal judge’s sweeping...

Judge Blocks Major Part of California Gun Control Bill

December 17, 2022 2:30 amDecember 18, 2022 7:20 am

United States District Court for the Southern District of California Judge Roger Benitez ruled on Friday that a major part of a California gun bill signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in July should be blocked, invalidating roughly half the bill....

United States Supreme Court to Consider Intervening in San Diego Schools’ COVID Vaccination Mandate

December 11, 2021 8:12 amDecember 12, 2021 2:26 pm

The family of a Scripps Ranch High School student athlete is suing the San Diego Unified School District for religious discrimination over the districts’ strictest-in-the-nation COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Thomas More Society attorneys filed suit against the school district and its...

San Diego Student Wins Religious Rights Injunction for District’s COVID Vaccine Mandate

November 29, 2021 11:43 amDecember 8, 2021 3:46 pm

A San Diego Unified School District public school student has won a religious rights case in an Appeal at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for an Injunction over the school districts’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Last week, Thomas More Society...

San Diego School District Sued Over Not Having a Religious COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate Exemption

October 25, 2021 4:05 pmOctober 28, 2021 10:36 am

The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) was sued over the weekend by a Scripps Ranch High School student athlete and her family for religious discrimination over the district’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Last month, the SDUSD approved COVID-19 vaccination mandates...