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Gov. Newsom Signs Unconstitutional Bill Requiring Candidates’ Tax Returns

July 30, 2019 1:00 pmJuly 31, 2019 9:16 pm

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 27 Tuesday, requiring candidates for U.S. President and California Governor to disclose their income tax returns in order to appear on California’s primary ballot. As California Globe reported, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed an...

California Bar Exam Leaked by California State Bar

July 29, 2019 3:15 pmJuly 30, 2019 9:40 am

From the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” file: On Sunday, the State Bar of California admitted that it mistakenly leaked essay topics for Tuesday’s bar examination to 16 law school deans last week. Then after discovering the inadvertent leak,...

Yolo County Murder Trial Reveals Back Story of Violence Against Women

July 25, 2019 3:30 pmJuly 25, 2019 3:43 pm

Rohail Sarwar, a native of Pakistan, is on trial for the murder of Sacramento resident Junying Lu, 51, in a Woodland, CA massage parlor last August. Last Friday in Yolo County Court, the defendant did not testify but the first...

Journalist or criminal? Judge quashes more than warrant in Adachi leak investigation

July 24, 2019 2:06 pm

Legally, it’s as if the warrant never existed Two weeks shy of executing a broad search warrant on the home and office of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott stood before cameras and a podium...

TV Reporter Drew Police to Journalist at Center of Leak Investigation

July 23, 2019 4:11 pm

A series of tweets coupled with a television news report set in motion a massive investigation into a leak of police documents shortly after famed San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi died in February, according to newly-unsealed court documents released...

Selected Highlights from California’s Constitution, Part V

July 22, 2019 2:13 amJuly 21, 2019 9:17 pm

The California Constitution, one of the longest of the fifty states, has 32 articles (even though the last one is numbered 35), and three articles contain subparts (Articles 10, 13 and 19). There are approximately 365 sections contained in those...

Berkeley Going Gender-Neutral in its City Code

July 20, 2019 5:06 pmJuly 20, 2019 5:08 pm

The City of Berkeley, CA announced it is removing all gendered language from city code. “The City Council adopted the first reading of the new ordinance on Tuesday, which would replace all instances of ‘he’ and ‘she’ in the city...