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Disaster Indemnity for State Militia

April 25, 2025 2:30 amApril 25, 2025 2:31 am

California’s Military and Veterans Code, in Division 3, Chapter 6, Article 3.8, provides for disaster indemnity among state benefits for veterans. Section 989.4 requires the department to maintain an Indemnity Fund, which was created in the State Treasury, for the...

UCLA Students Protest Lawsuit Alleging That UC Still Uses Race-Based Admission Decisions

April 24, 2025 9:00 amApril 24, 2025 9:01 am

Close to 100 students protested at UCLA over the weekend, rallying against a Students Against Racial Discrimination (SARD) lawsuit that says that the UC system still uses race-based decisions in admissions despite state and federal law already banning the practice....

Federal Lawsuit Filed Challenging Validity of Nor Cal Ione Band of Miwok Indians

April 24, 2025 2:55 amApril 24, 2025 2:56 am

The Ione Band of Miwok Indians recently started the process of building a casino in Plymouth, California in Amador County. They broke ground after the first of the year, and have been grading the land non-stop. Roughly 12 miles away,...

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...