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On May 25, 2023, the Texas Legislature passed HB 19, legislation that creates specialized business courts. The bill now will make its way to the Governor’s desk for consideration. Here...

TX HB 19, waiting for Gov. signature, legislation will create specialized business courts. Business court judges appointed by Governor advice and consent of the Senate, for a fixed term, and subject to certain qualification. Creates Tiers of jurisdiction for business courts

Sign up for local news and alerts; we will not sell your email, who does that? _____________ May 2, 2023 By Brian Hews In a nearly unanimous vote, with two assembly people walking, the California Assembly voted 78-0 to take legal revenue away from community newspapers and place them on obscure unadjudicated websites. The COVID-19…

Asm. Juan Carillo (D-39) wants to cut community newspaper revenue. Editorial from Antelope Valley Press published in Asm. Carillo's district; Los Cerritos Community News edited and added to the editorial. April 2, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 dealt economic blows to many industries, the newspaper industry being one of them. It was already hard…

Last December, I wrote about  AB 83 (Lee & Kalra), which would enact the "Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act".    The California Political Reform Act already forbids a...

California Political Reform Act already forbids foreign government or principal from making contribution expenditure or independent expenditure in connection with qualification or support of state or local ballot measure or an election for a state or local office. Cal. Gov't Code § 85320.

The first law signed by California's first Governor, Peter Burnett, was the The Act Concerning the Public Archives (Chapter 1, Statutes of 1850). The act instructed the Secretary of...

Secretary of State announced that it had released records to researcher with respect to forced sterilization program conducted in state for seven decades. Records provided included records dated from 1948-1954. According to the Secretary of State, the records included names.

California Government Code allows state agencies to designate as a precedent decision a decision or part of a decision that contains a significant legal or policy determination of general application that is likely to recur. Cal. Gov't Code 11425.60b.

Yesterday's post noted that an administrative decision had not been listed as a "precedent decision".  Today's post will delve into the role of precedential and nonprecedential agency...