Hiring in General
Chapter 1 of Title 5 of Part 4 of Division 3 of the California Civil Code deals with hiring in general. Section 1925 provides that hiring is a contract by which one gives to another the temporary possession and use...
Legal
California Democrats Call Omar Home Search ‘Fascism’ After Cheering Mar-a-Lago Raid as Rule of Law
Federal agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant early Monday at the Washington, D.C.-area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Homeland Security Investigations officers arrived before dawn. Neighbors reported banging on doors...
Considering Legislative Statements with Unambiguous Statutes
As a general rule, California courts only consider extrinsic evidence (such as committee or floor analyses) when a statute is ambiguous. In other words, if a statute is clear, then the plain meaning of the language controls and there is...
El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells’ DSA Opponent Scrubs DSA Website of Endorsement
El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells is in a tough reelection campaign and his opponent is Alexander Kraft, a self-described socialist. You may remember El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells from California Globe reports earlier this year when he asked the California...
Disposition of California Assembly Bills
Over the past seventeen years, I have tracked by each year of the 2-year California Legislative Sessions a series of actions related to bills. The following chart lists those seven actions per session year. The first figure is the number...
‘DEI Bike Lanes’ – Sacramento City Council Inflates Bicycling Numbers for Federal Taxpayer Grants
Recently, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the end of federal funding for “DEI bike lanes.” Sacramento didn’t get the memo. “Sean Duffy, Mr. Trump’s transportation secretary, has argued that when bike lanes cut into space for cars and trucks, the...
Snapshot of Bill Signing Messages
The following chart covers five Governors and their bill signing messages that accompany bills. I only have them for the second term of Governor Wilson, but then all of the years for the current and three prior governors. This chart...