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Driver Leasing Companies Surge in Popularity a Month Before AB 5 Becomes Law

December 3, 2019 2:05 amDecember 2, 2019 8:28 pm

Driver leasing companies in California and other states are seeing a surge of Californian business due to the impending implementation of AB 5. AB 5 and Loopholes AB 5, which was written by Assemblywoman and former San Diego AFL-CIO CEO...

Is California a ‘Permanently Blue’ State?

December 2, 2019 10:06 amDecember 1, 2019 10:00 am

“The very rapid decline of California’s Republican Party,” writes Dan Walters of CALmatters, “from near-dominance in the 1980s and early 1990s to its current irrelevance has been one of the state’s most dramatic political events.” Walters has been writing on...

Single Subject Rule and the Ballot Initiative

December 2, 2019 6:05 amDecember 1, 2019 11:49 am

California Constitution Article II, Section 8(d) provides “An initiative measure embracing more than one subject may not be submitted to the electors or have any effect.” You may recall that a similar rule exists for bills considered by the California...

Lawsuit at Cal State Fullerton Leads to Calls for Strengthening Hazing Laws

November 29, 2019 8:10 pm

The parents of Bea Castro, a 19-year-old Cal State, Fulletron student who died from acute ethanol intoxication in March of 2018 during a hazing incident, are suing both the University and the Chi Sigma Phi sorority. The charges in the...

Roles of the Attorney General and the Legislative Analyst in the Initiative Process

November 29, 2019 2:04 amNovember 28, 2019 10:15 pm

In California’s initiative process, both the Attorney General and the Legislative Analyst play important roles. Those roles are established by the state Constitution, as well as the California Elections Code. This article provides an overview of the relevant laws specifying...

California’s Online Privacy Law to be the Basis for a New Nationwide Online Privacy Bill

November 28, 2019 12:34 pmNovember 28, 2019 7:37 am

A California bill that is to give Californians greater digital and personal data privacy starting in 2020 may soon be law nationwide after U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington proposed another. The Consumer Privacy Act was fought by every major...

Assembly Majority Ian Calderon Announces That He Will Not Seek Re-Election in 2020.

November 28, 2019 7:33 am

Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon (D-Whittier) announced in a statement on Tuesday that he will not seek re-election. Assemblyman Calderon, who has held the seat for the 57th district since 2012 when he was only 27, has said that he...