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Are Bills with Only Findings and Declarations Considered Substantive?

January 28, 2023 8:48 amJanuary 28, 2023 8:54 am

In the California Legislature, we know that bills that lack proposed substantive law changes are considered “placeholder” measures and generally do not get referred to a policy committee by the Senate or Assembly Rules Committees. In almost all instances, those...

California Physicians’ Free Speech Win with AB 2098 Injunction Upheld

January 27, 2023 1:09 pmJanuary 27, 2023 3:34 pm

Assembly Bill 2098, California’s medical misinformation law, has suffered its first legal defeat. A judge in California agreed with a request for preliminary injunction to protect five California physicians from the Medical Board of California. AB 2098 empowers the Medical...

Disqualification of Judges in California

January 27, 2023 11:17 amJanuary 27, 2023 11:20 am

California’s Code of Civil Procedure (CCP) provides the basis for the disqualification of judges. These provisions of law are found in Chapter 3 of Title 2 of Part 1. CCP Section 170 specifies that a judge has a duty to...

Lawsuit Filed Challenging Constitutionality Of CARE Courts

January 27, 2023 7:15 amJanuary 27, 2023 7:17 am

Three civil rights groups filed a petition on Thursday with the California Supreme Court to block the implementation of the CARE Courts program, which had been signed into law by Governor Newsom last year. According to the state, the Community...

Farebox Recovery: Free is Not Good Enough

January 26, 2023 11:10 amJanuary 26, 2023 11:25 am

There is not a single public transit system in the United States that earns enough money in fares to cover its expenses. In fact, the systems with the highest “farebox recovery ratio” – which is the percentage of the annual...

Drafting Legislative Counsel Digests

January 26, 2023 9:18 amJanuary 26, 2023 9:21 am

The purpose of the Legislative Counsel’s Digest, according to the Office of Legislative Counsel, is to summarize the effect of the proposed bill on current law. It is obviously prepared by the Office of Legislative Counsel and provides a brief...

California’s First Lady Produces ‘Gender Justice’ Films, Sells to State Public Schools

January 25, 2023 8:22 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife, “First Partner” Jennifer Siebel Newsom, have quite a money-making scheme going on: “He runs the state and she’s a nonprofit founder, entrepreneur, and filmmaker,” Open the Books reports. “While her husband attends to...