With the convening of a new 2-year California Legislative Session, the Senate and Assembly will organize their respective houses and elect their leaders on December 5 when the 2023-24 Legislative Session officially begins. This article briefly reviews the applicable constitutional,...
California’s Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which sets forth the rules that California’s more than 200 agencies, departments, boards, and commissions that adopt regulations must follow, does not apply in all instances. Government Code Section 11340.9 specifies that the APA does...
Meta, the Menlo Park-based parent company of social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, laid off 13% of their employees, or over 11,000, on Thursday, continuing the stark trend of cutbacks at Bay Area and Silicon Valley tech...
There are many Republicans looking for someone to blame for the Red Wave that wasn’t in Tuesday’s midterm election. They probably should look inward, rather than giving in to the impulse to blame. Blame might be the most self-defeating coping...
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins declared victory Wednesday following a tight DA special election where she squared off against the candidate backed by the Democratic Party upset, following changes she has made since being appointed by Mayor London Breed...
At the polls on Tuesday, Californian voters overwhelmingly defeated two propositions that would have brought sports gambling into California, with the Golden state remaining one of the handful of states to not allow the practice. Ever since being created as...
We know that, absent bills that take effect immediately, new statutes in California take effective on January 1, following their enactment the previous year. But, when do regulations take effect in this state? Government Code Section 11343.4, which is part...