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Nevada’s Special Legislative Session Highlighted Everything That is Wrong In State Politics

November 20, 2025 2:14 pmNovember 20, 2025 2:23 pm

After seven grueling days, Nevada’s special legislative session came to a much-needed close. Republican Governor Joe Lombardo had called for a special session last month, announcing: “At some point over the next few months, I intend to call the Legislature...

Service of Process in Vessel Litigation in California

November 20, 2025 2:00 pmNovember 20, 2025 2:01 pm

Chapter 4 of Division 3 of the Harbors and Navigation Code deals with service of process. Section 600 provides definitions for the terms “watercraft” and ”nonresident.” Section 605 states that, where the nonresident has died prior to the commencement of...

BREAKING: State of California and DCCC Trying to Change Rules Already Agreed to in Prop 50 Lawsuit

November 20, 2025 11:12 amNovember 20, 2025 11:20 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom unconstitutionally overturned the voter-approved California Redistricting Commission with Proposition 50, which was just passed by voters. That is bad enough, but the new congressional district maps were drawn based on racial lines, a recent lawsuit alleges....

National Right to Work Foundation Sues UCLA Over Public Records Request for Union ‘Strategic Research’ Workshops

November 20, 2025 10:26 amNovember 20, 2025 10:26 am

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has just filed a lawsuit against the University of California at Los Angeles. The case challenges the university’s failure to produce public records regarding two conferences promoting aggressive union campaign tactics. Foundation...

Former AZ Rep Austin Smith to Be Sentenced for Petition Forgery

November 20, 2025 10:12 amNovember 20, 2025 10:12 am

Former Arizona State Representative Austin Smith, a Republican who represented Legislative District 29 from 2023 to 2025 and a former senior director at Turning Point Action, is scheduled to be sentenced on January 6, 2026, after pleading guilty to charges...

Ringside: Shifting Costs Does Not Solve California’s Electricity Shortages

November 20, 2025 2:55 amNovember 20, 2025 2:56 am

California’s Little Hoover Commission was created in 1962 “as an independent and bipartisan state agency charged with making recommendations to the governor and Legislature on ways to make state programs more efficient.” Funded by taxpayers, officially nonpartisan, they’ve just released a set of...

Financial Support of Parents in California

November 20, 2025 2:30 amNovember 20, 2025 2:31 am

Section 4400 requires an adult child, to the extent of the adult child’s ability, support a parent who is in need and unable to self-maintain by work. Section 4401 makes the promise of an adult child to pay for necessaries...