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California Courts and Prospective Application of Laws

December 30, 2024 2:30 amDecember 30, 2024 2:31 am

California courts follow the statutory construction principle that statutes are to be applied prospectively unless there is clear evidence that the Legislature intended retroactive application as well. What are some recent appellate court statements on the topic of prospective application...

State Agency Design Build Projects

December 29, 2024 2:30 amDecember 29, 2024 2:31 am

In Public Contract Code Division 2, Part 2, Chapter 1, Article 6, it provides for state agency design-build projects. Section 10187 contains legislative findings and declarations that the design-build method of project delivery, using a best value procurement methodology, has...

Haughty Gov. Gavin Newsom Takes Credit for ‘Recent Crack Down on Retail Theft’

December 28, 2024 11:25 amJanuary 1, 2025 6:59 am

The recent news stories of actual arrests for blatant crime and serial theft rings in California is thanks to voter’s overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 36 to reverse the state’s perverse lax theft laws. Most people are celebrating that...

Jewish Parents and Teachers in Legal Battle with LA Teachers Union over Anti-Semitic Ethnic Studies

December 28, 2024 9:17 amDecember 28, 2024 9:04 pm

Jewish parents and teachers fighting a pitched legal battle to keep an anti-Semitism ridden ethnic studies curriculum out of the Los Angeles public schools, are vowing to appeal a federal judge’s snide ruling dismissing their lawsuit against the Los Angeles...

Electronic Records Under the Commercial Code

December 28, 2024 2:30 amDecember 28, 2024 2:31 am

California’s Commercial Code, in Division 12, deals with controllable electronic records. Section 12101 names this division as the “Uniform Commercial Code—Controllable Electronic Records.” Section 12102 defines the following terms: “controllable electronic record,” “qualifying purchaser,” “transferable record,” and “value.” In addition,...

Asm. DeMaio Unveils Republican Contract to Reform California in ‘26

December 27, 2024 8:00 amDecember 27, 2024 8:01 am

Carl DeMaio hit the ground running after being sworn in Dec. 2nd to the California Assembly. Two weeks ago DeMaio released his 7-Point Plan to Overhaul ‘Broken’ CA Republican Party. Now, he and Reform California are unveiling a Contract to...

California Courts and the Title of a Bill

December 27, 2024 7:33 amDecember 27, 2024 7:33 am

One of the constitutional requirements for a bill in the California Legislature is that every bill must contain a Title. That Title plays several important roles including advising the reader of what is the general subject matter of the bill...