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Mark Meuser and Harmeet Dhillon announcing lawsuit against the California Secretary of State and the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles. (press conference, Facebook)

Big Legal Win for Religious Liberty: Easter Services Now Permitted in San Bernardino County

April 10, 2020 2:51 pmApril 10, 2020 2:54 pm

‘Religious freedom is a fundamental human right and the government must respect the dignity of all persons, regardless of their faith background, to exercise their faith according to the dictates of one’s conscience.’ The Center for American Liberty and...

Homeless Begin to Move Into State Funded Hotel Rooms

April 10, 2020 2:15 amApril 10, 2020 6:40 pm

On Wednesday, selected homeless across the state began temporarily moving into state-funded hotel rooms to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. “We have a moral and ethical responsibility to do our part” Announced last week by Governor Gavin...

New California, Nationwide Unemployment Claims Remain High for Third Week in a Row

April 9, 2020 9:33 pmApril 9, 2020 10:24 pm

Statewide unemployment claims climbed past 2 million during the first week of April according to a new Department of Labor report. The weekly report also found that California’s 925,000 newly unemployed workers were a major part of last weeks 6.6...

New Bill Would Aim to Stop Price Gouging During State Emergencies

April 9, 2020 2:16 pmApril 12, 2020 11:28 am

On Wednesday, a new bill that targets price gougers during states of emergency was announced. Expanded misdemeanors for price gougers Under Senate Bill 1196, authored by Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D-Santa Ana), consumer protections against price gougers would be expanded....

California Falls Behind Paying Out Federal Unemployment Dollars

April 9, 2020 2:28 amApril 11, 2020 12:08 am

California has fallen behind on adding the $600 of additional federal funds to each person on unemployment payments. At a Tuesday news conference, Governor Gavin Newsom confirmed that the federal funds provided by the CARES Act to add additional relief...

CA Appellate Court Unanimously Rules Sacramento City Council Violated Local Developer’s Constitutional Rights

April 9, 2020 2:15 amApril 12, 2020 9:07 am

Three California courts and a unanimous appellate court have ruled that the Sacramento City Council violated the constitutional rights of Sacramento developer Paul Petrovich over his request for a special permit for a 16-pump gas station next to a new...

California Spends $1 Billion to secure 200 million masks a month

April 8, 2020 7:10 pmApril 9, 2020 2:17 pm

‘We need to spend what we need, but also need what we spend. And the Governor just went way beyond that this week without any oversight.’ On Tuesday, Governor Newsom announced that California would spend $990 million to receive...