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Sacramento Bee Claims Prop. 187 ‘Sought to Ban Immigrants From Receiving Social Services’

December 20, 2022 2:57 amDecember 20, 2022 6:43 am

A Sacramento Bee reporter made a serious false claim in an article Monday highlighting California’s four newest Latino GOP state lawmakers being barred from the Latino Caucus because they are Republicans. The Globe wondered, “What about equality, equity, tolerance and inclusivity?”...

Bill To Require Opioid Medicine Availability In Numerous Businesses Introduced in Assembly

December 20, 2022 2:22 amDecember 19, 2022 7:22 pm

A bill to require Narcan, the opioid reversal medicine, to be available in bars, gas stations, public libraries, and single-room occupancy hotels, was introduced on Monday in the Assembly. Assembly Bill 24, authored by Assemblyman Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) would...

Official Reporter of California Appellate Court Decisions

December 19, 2022 6:08 pmDecember 19, 2022 6:13 pm

California law requires the appointment of a “reporter of decisions” of the state supreme court, as well as the courts of appeal. Government Code Title 8, Chapter 3, Article 3 concerns the Reporter of Decisions. Government Code Section 68900 requires...

Doctors Without Ethical Borders

December 19, 2022 2:54 pmDecember 19, 2022 3:04 pm

Since the time of Hippocrates, medicine has had one common thread – first, do no harm. Often, the harm done is only clear in retrospect – bloodletting, various treatments involving toads, the “humours” system of diagnostics all seem just plain...

Senator Weiner Reintroduces Psychedelic Drug Decriminalization bill

December 19, 2022 2:15 pm

A bill to decriminalize plant-based psychedelic drugs was reintroduced on Monday in a much-watered down version that previous iterations have taken. According to Senate Bill 58, by Senator Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco), plant-based and other natural hallucinogens such as psilocybin...

Politics and Public Health Agencies Behind Latest Round of Covid Hysteria

December 19, 2022 10:19 amDecember 20, 2022 7:25 am

Politicians, public health officials, doctors and health care workers and members of the media are very clearly trying to gin up another lockdown Covid winter. In California the pandemic never really ended. California Gov. Gavin Newsom still clings to his...

California’s Court of Appeal

December 18, 2022 2:03 pmDecember 18, 2022 2:21 pm

California has three levels of courts – trial courts (called the superior courts), courts of appeal, and the high court (called the supreme court). Title 8 of the California Government Code deals with the organization and government of the state’s...