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Civil Offenses in Navigable Waters

June 28, 2025 2:30 amJune 28, 2025 2:31 am

Division 1.5, Chapter 4 of the California Harbors and Navigation Code deals with civil offenses committed in navigable waters. Section 151 provides that any person that intentionally or negligently causes or permits any oil to be deposited in the water...

Is Newsom Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox News ‘Publicity Stunt’ & ‘Frivolous?’

June 27, 2025 1:11 pmJune 28, 2025 7:21 am

Governor Gavin Newsom filed a $787 million lawsuit against Fox News on Friday in Delaware Superior Court, alleging that the network, and Fox host Jesse Watters, defamed him by saying that Newsom was called by President Donald Trump to discuss...

Former California City Prison On It’s Way to Becoming Next ICE Detention Facility in California

June 27, 2025 2:45 amJune 27, 2025 2:46 am

For much of the first half of the 2020’s, the California City Correctional Facility (CCCF) in Kern County went from bad to worse. Sparked by Governor Gavin Newsom’s promise to reduce the number of prisons, CCCF went from being on...

California Boating and Waterways Commission

June 27, 2025 2:30 amJune 27, 2025 2:31 am

California’s Harbors and Navigation Code, in Division 1, Chapter 3, creates the Boating and Waterboys Commission. Section 80 provides that the Harbors and Watercraft Commission and its successor, the Navigation and Ocean Development Commission, are continued in existence in the...

US DOJ Launches Investigation Into Allegations of Race-and-Sex Based Hiring Discrimination at University of California

June 26, 2025 4:56 pmJune 26, 2025 4:56 pm

The United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into the University of California system, and its individual campuses, over alleged race-and sex-based discrimination in university employment practices. According to the DOJ, the Civil Rights Division’s Employment...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Calls Out LA Mayor & Metro Chief for Failed Riot Response

June 26, 2025 12:07 pmJune 26, 2025 12:07 pm

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just sent letters calling out Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Stephanie Wiggins, Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for their “weak leadership during the LA riots that led to...

Ringside: The Grand Water Bargain

June 26, 2025 3:05 amJune 26, 2025 3:06 am

For the last few decades in California, the conventional wisdom has been that farmers and urban water consumers have to improve efficiency and reduce consumption. To the fullest extent possible, rain and snow falling on watersheds must proceed unimpaired from...