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General Provisions for Commencing Civil Actions

April 24, 2025 2:30 amApril 24, 2025 2:31 am

California’s Code of Civil Procedure provides a number of general provisions relating to commencing civil actions in Part 2, Title 2, Chapter 4. Section 350 provides that an action is commenced, within the meaning of this title, when the complaint...

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...

Issue and Issuer under the Commercial Code

April 23, 2025 2:30 amApril 23, 2025 2:31 am

The Commercial Code, in Division 8, Chapter 2, deals with issue and issuer of investment securities in California. Section 8201 defines an “issuer” to include a person that does any of the four specified acts. A guarantor is an issuer...

Bill to Halt Universities From Punishing Students Who Call 911 For Overdoses Awaits Vote In Assm.

April 22, 2025 6:07 pmApril 22, 2025 6:07 pm

A new bill that would stop colleges and universities from academically punishing students who call 911 for help with overdoses continued to await being heard by a committee this week following a massive rewrite last month. Assembly Bill 602, authored...

One Year After Fatal Mountain Lion Attack, Partisan Democrats Inflict More Harm on Brooks Family

April 22, 2025 3:24 pmApril 23, 2025 3:56 pm

UPDATE BELOW: Partisan politics was on full display at the California State Capitol Tuesday, with Democrats using their supermajority to kill an important Republican bill, just because they can. A tragic mountain lion attack in 2024, which killed one El...

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Proposes 1,647 City Employee Layoffs Amidst Huge $1 Billion Budget Gap

April 22, 2025 2:20 pmApril 22, 2025 2:20 pm

During her state of the city address on Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced several cuts and rollbacks in the city budget to close the nearly $1 billion city budget deficit, including the layoffs of 1,600 employees and the...

Greenberg: Can Oakland Survive Barbara Lee?

April 22, 2025 7:21 amApril 22, 2025 7:22 am

Barbara Lee’s triumph in Oakland’s mayoral race on April 15, 2025, has been hailed as a progressive milestone, marking her as the city’s first Black woman mayor. But beneath the applause lies a grim reality: Lee’s victory signals trouble for...