Gavin Newsom’s recall election strategy – sadly – worked. Weighing the California landscape, feeling assured of extremely compliant (complicit) media coverage, and knowing he would have a funding advantage of essentially $100 million dollars to zero, he took an informed...
It’s Deja vu all over again, as the great Yogi Bera once famously said. In California, we have a near repeat of the ousted labor union case in Ventura that the Globe covered last month, where the employees submitted a...
A bill to ban real guns and live ammunition from all film and theater sets was proposed over the weekend in response to the fatal accidental shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin at a movie set in New...
As part of California’s Administrative Procedure Act (APA), executive branch agencies that promulgate regulations are required to conduct an economic impact analysis. What is that analysis and how have the courts interpreted agency actions to comply with this statutory mandate?...
As part of California’s Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the rulemaking bodies of the executive branch of state government must conduct a public hearing on a proposed regulation if requested by a member of the public. Pursuant to Government Code Section...
A recall election of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was made all but certain on Friday after it was announced that 83,487 signatures, more than 30,000 more than needed, had been submitted to San Francisco election officials. Elected in...
California’s Administrative Procedure Act (APA) provides the formal rules that must be followed by executive branch state agencies when promulgating regulations. The APA is found in California’s Government Code, Title 2 (which covers the Government of the State of California),...