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The Shoulder Tap Program is an enforcement program that ABC and local law enforcement agencies use to detect and deter shoulder tap activity.  During the operation, a minor decoy, under the direct supervision of law enforcement officers, solicits adults outside ABC licensed stores to buy the minor alcohol.  The decoy indicates that he or she is a minor and cannot purchase alcohol.  Undercover deputies and ABC agents wait nearby, ready to arrest people who buy or sell alcohol for the teens. ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Although the California Consumer Protection Act ("CCPA") went into effect on January 1, 2020 and over 100 class actions referencing the CCPA have been filed to date, very few class actions have actually made their way to court approval. That is about to change. Last week, Judge Chhabria of the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval in a data breach class action involving...

A California statute may help ticketholders get refunds for cancelled concerts in some circumstances.

A California state judge Thursday sanctioned online attorney search website LegalMatch.com $10,000 for its "appalling" discovery behavior in a dispute with the State Bar of California and dismissed its challenge to a state law that restricts the website's advertising practices.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On May 3, 2021, the California Senate Health Committee approved SB-642 “Health care: facilities: medical privileges.” The bill is currently pending in the California Senate. AB-705, which is substantially similar to SB-642, is also pending in the California Assembly.  If passed, the law will curtail hospital governing bodies’ ability to make decisions about the medical services provided at the facility without medical staff ap...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: At a time when many are questioning the continued utility and viability of the corporate practice of medicine ban, California may be doubling down. On May 3, 2021, the California Senate Health Committee approved SB-642, the stated purpose of which is to protect medical decision-making from lay control. The bill is currently pending in the California Senate. Assembly Bill AB-705 is a substantially identical bill in the California Assem...

May 6, 2021 at 3:24 PM Shares0 (Image via Getty) “What else could go wrong?” The answer has always been “Don’t ask.” That may be the dialogue that the State Bar of California is having these days. Just when it couldn’t seem to get any worse, it has. On two fronts. The first is the scathing audit report that the California State Auditor has released about California State Bar shortcomings in its managing/handling/administering, whatever you want to call it, of the lawyer discipline s...

Internet service provider (ISP) Cox Communications Inc. filed a complaint on Monday in the Central District of California alleging that BMG Rights

Unlike the Kyoto Protocol, which established legally binding emissions reduction targets (as well as penalties for noncompliance) for developed nations

Wednesday, May 5, 2021 For those who have not been following the Plaid class action unfold, we previously covered it HERE and HERE. Soon after the class actions were consolidated last year, Plaid filed a motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ Consolidated Class Action Complaint in September, 2020. Oral arguments were held in February of this year, and the Court just issued its 38-page ruling, partially granting Plaid’s motion to dismiss, with prejudice. As you may recall, this action co...