Legal – California Globe

Statewide Child Support Registry

January 2, 2026 2:00 pmJanuary 2, 2026 2:01 pm

Division 17, Chapter 1, Article 4 deals with the Statewide Registry for Child Support under the Department of Child Support Services. Section 17390 contains a legislative finding and declaration that there is no single statewide database containing statistical data regarding...

DOJ Halts California’s Unconstitutional Mask Ban on ICE Agents

January 2, 2026 11:48 amJanuary 2, 2026 11:49 am

The U.S. Department of Justice has successfully paused enforcement of California’s controversial “No Secret Police Act” (SB 627), a law championed by State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) that sought to prohibit law enforcement officers—including federal ICE agents—from wearing face...

Sable Pipeline Gets Go-Ahead to Restart California Pipeline

January 2, 2026 7:36 amJanuary 2, 2026 7:46 am

The Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration just gave Sable Offshore Corp. a Christmas present: Sable can begin pumping oil from its three platforms off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., after a federal appeals court allowed the restart...

The Steep Price of Tolerance

January 2, 2026 4:30 amJanuary 2, 2026 4:31 am

I truly feel sorry that Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered in cold blood by their own son. It doesn’t matter to me that I did not agree with Reiner’s politics. Besides being a severe drug addict, Reiner’s son...

More Prop. 50 Redistricting Contributions and Expenditures and $31M to Consultants

January 2, 2026 3:30 amJanuary 2, 2026 6:14 am

The Daily Caller is reporting that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting map guru employs man who got $31 million to fight Prop 50. They report that California’s redistricting map author, Paul Mitchell, told lawyers during a deposition that he was paid...

Foreign Country Money Judgments

January 2, 2026 2:55 amJanuary 2, 2026 2:56 am

Part 3, Title 11, Chapter 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure deals with foreign country money judgments in civil cases in California. Section 1713 names the law the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act. Section 1714 defines the terms...

How Many Bills Are on the Inactive Files?

January 1, 2026 8:34 pmJanuary 1, 2026 8:34 pm

As we begin the second year of the 2-year Session, we need to not only be concerned with 2-year bills in policy committees, but also those pending on the Floors. While there are quite a few bills on second house Inactive...