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California Must Smartly Confront the Growing Crisis of Online Fraud

October 6, 2025 8:00 amOctober 6, 2025 4:25 pm

At California Consumer Voice, we believe everyday Californians deserve a fair shake. Our mission is to inform, empower, and advocate for consumers across the state, ensuring their voices are heard when policy decisions affect their lives. That mission has never been more...

Potential Impact of Retail Gas Prices of the Chevron El Segundo Fire

October 6, 2025 6:35 amOctober 6, 2025 6:35 am

Facts California is facing a gasoline crisis and the potential for significant price increases and worse, supply shortages. (Note: the primary reason why gasoline prices are lower than expected is due to the 19% decrease in the cost of crude...

Restoration of a Spouse’s Former Name

October 6, 2025 2:30 amOctober 6, 2025 2:31 am

Division 6, Part 1, Chapter 7 deals with the restoration of a spouse’s former name in nullity, dissolution, and legal separation proceedings. Section 2080 provides that, in a proceeding for dissolution of marriage or for nullity of marriage, but not...

Governor and AG Bonta Targeting El Cajon Again with Lawsuit over License Plate Data

October 5, 2025 10:32 amOctober 6, 2025 11:36 am

Governor Gavin Newsom and California Attorney general Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit Friday against the City of El Cajon and its police department for sharing automated license plate reader data with out-of-state law enforcement agencies. El Cajon is located in...

Disclosure of Assets and Liabilities in Family Law Cases

October 5, 2025 2:30 amOctober 5, 2025 2:31 am

Division 6, Part 1, Chapter 9 deals with the disclosure of assets and liabilities in nullity, dissolution, and legal separation cases. Section 2100 contains three legislative findings and declarations, including that sound public policy further favors the reduction of the...

Why Legislative Counsel Should Draft All Ballot Measures

October 4, 2025 4:13 pmOctober 4, 2025 4:13 pm

I found myself recently discussing initiatives and the common drafting concerns expressed by those who review them. With measures placed on the ballot by the Legislature, the attorneys in the Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC) for the California Legislature draft...

Newsom Signs Bill to Unionize California’s 800,000 Rideshare Gig Workers: This Was the Plan All Along

October 4, 2025 8:50 amOctober 6, 2025 11:33 am

Governor Gavin Newsom Friday signed Assembly Bill 1340 by Democrat Assembly members Buffy Wicks and Marc Berman into law, “marking a historic milestone for California’s gig economy and the hundreds of thousands of drivers who power it,” Wicks and Berman...