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Summary of California Bills Per Session and Actions Taken – 2025 Edition

October 15, 2025 2:00 pmOctober 15, 2025 2:01 pm

The following research was updated in October 2025 in order to examine the major actions involving bills in the California Legislature over the few years. I examined the following five categories of information for each year, as set forth in...

Supreme Court Hearing Arguments Today in Critical Voting Rights Act Case

October 15, 2025 11:56 amOctober 15, 2025 3:53 pm

Today, the United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments in Louisiana v. Callais on race-based redistricting and the Voting Rights Act, which will impact the entire country. This is a challenge to the congressional map that Louisiana adopted in 2024,...

Gov. Newsom Signs Bill to Create Sports Equity Commission to Undermine Girls Athletics

October 15, 2025 7:51 amOctober 15, 2025 12:50 pm

In yet another violation of Title IX, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 749 to create a Sports Equity Commission. Rather than ratifying girls-only in girls sports and banning trans athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports, Newsom’s...

Family Law Case Management

October 15, 2025 2:30 amOctober 15, 2025 2:31 am

Division 6, Part 3, Chapter 6 of the California Family Code deals with case management for dissolution of marriage and legal separation cases. Section 2450 provides that the purpose of family centered case resolution is to benefit the parties by...

The Proposition 50 Exodus

October 14, 2025 3:00 pmOctober 14, 2025 3:01 pm

There was an interesting Letter to the Editor in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend. In commenting on Proposition 50, the ballot measure to alter congressional district lines, the letter writer noted the disparity of California Democratic representatives in...

2025 Session Governor Bill Signing Messages

October 14, 2025 2:09 pmOctober 14, 2025 2:09 pm

Like governors before him, Governor Gavin Newsom on occasion includes a “signing message” with bills that he has signed. Although only veto messages are specified in the California Constitution, governors have historically used signing messages to express their intent or...

Does Transmission Still Matter for Mandates? The Ninth Circuit Doesn’t Think So

October 14, 2025 11:30 amOctober 14, 2025 11:30 am

For more than a century, the government’s claimed power to coerce medical intervention rested on a single premise: protecting others. That was the logic of Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905), which upheld a $5 fine for refusing a smallpox vaccine. Even...