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Judge enters another order blocking CA from enforcing law over young user online privacy

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A group advocating for tech companies said the ruling represents a victory for free online speech, as the law would essentially force social media and other online companies to serve as "censors," enforcing the state's content standards online
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More lawsuits target hair care product makers, now claiming hair dye caused cancer

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The lawsuits have been filed vs. L'Oreal, Clairol, Henken and others on behalf of hair stylists, claiming chemicals in hair dyes caused bladder cancer. Hair care product makers have also been targeted by thousands of suits over cancers allegedly caused by hair relaxers
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Penn trucking company signs onto petition to challenge California 'Clean Cars' standards

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A petition has been filed to challenge a waiver granted by the EPA in the final days of the Biden administration to allow California to proceed with its so-called 'Advanced Clean Cars' emission standards. Those standards automatically control vehicles in many other states
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Rocklin schools appeal ruling ordering them to revoke parental trans notification policy

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Rocklin Unified School District has asked a CA appeals court to undo a ruling from the public employees labor board that directed them to rescind a policy requiring staff to notify parents if their child asks to be known by a different gender. The board said the district needed to first negotiate with the teachers union
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Appeals court: ClassPass can't use arbitration to escape class action; Dissent: Ruling leaves online biz 'guessing'

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The Ninth Circuit rejected an attempt by online gym access pass seller ClassPass to beat a class action through arbitration because its user terms and conditions weren't good enough to show users agreed. A dissenting judge said the decision defies earlier rulings and fosters uncertainty
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EPA can't make SF pay big fines for overall quality of SF Bay due to wastewater flow

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The U.S. Supreme Court said the U.S. EPA exceeded their authority under the Clean Water Act in imposing so-called "end results" standards on San Francisco wastewater discharges, effectively making the city pay many millions or even billions of dollars in penalties for poor water quality in the Bay
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Lawsuit: Fresno schools run academic help programs that discriminate vs non-black students

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The lawsuit from the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation is the latest challenging alleged racially discriminatory government programs in the state. The lawsuit asserts Fresno Unified School District is spending $12M per year to operate academic programs open only to black students
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Judge says CA's, enviros' plastics recycling 'deception' lawsuit belongs in state court

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A federal judge said ExxonMobil failed to show why the lawsuits launched by California's Democratic attorney general and his environmentalist activist allies should avoid a date in California's plaintiff-friendly state courts. ExxonMobil has claimed the lawsuits are motivated by nothing more than politics and "ambition"
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Lawyers for Chino Valley schools 'declare victory' in fight vs state over parents' rights to know

By Jonathan Bilyk |
CA Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta did not appeal by deadline a San Bernardino County judge's ruling letting the Chino Valley Unified School District enforce policies requiring schools to tell parents when students' records are changed, including for gender change or pronouns
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Maybe 'not act of defiance,' but Norwalk can't escape Newsom's lawsuit over homeless shelter moratorium

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A judge said Gov. Newsom can continue bid to use lawsuit to punish city of Norwalk for attempting to slow down construction of shelters and resettlement of homeless in their community
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Federal law shields Grindr from lawsuit over underaged rapes arranged on app, appeals court says

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A federal appeals panel says Section 230 - a legal provision protecting social media companies from many lawsuits - protects gay dating and sex hookup app Grindr from a lawsuit from a man who claims he was raped four times by men using the app when he was 15, because Grindr didn't verify his age 
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'Hey, Siri:' $95M Apple Siri class action settlement gets initial OK from judge; Lawyers could get $28.5M

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Under the settlement, eligible claimants could get $20 for each Siri-equipped Apple devices they may have owned since 2014, up to five devices. The lawsuit asserted Apple devices wrongly recorded user conversations and other interactions, even when Siri was not summoned
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Lawsuits: CA law banning certain workplace meetings unconstitutional, tramples free speech rights

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Two lawsuits - one from the California Chamber of Commerce and other business advocates, the other from the California Policy Center - assert Democrat-supported SB399 would violate the constitutional rights of business owners and others by subjecting them to lawsuits and fines for sharing their views with workers
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CA appeals court: State OK to go after Christian baker for refusing to bake 'plain, simple' cake for lesbian wedding

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The court said sincere Christian beliefs concerning marriage and lack of "ill will or malice" held by Cathy Miller, owner of Tastries Bakery in Bakersfield, don't shield her from the state's civil rights enforcement action. Miller's attorneys vowed to appeal to the state Supreme Court, saying the state is trying to "crush" her over her beliefs
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Family of man who died while 'train surfing' sues, says BART should've stopped him

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The family of 19-year-old Daniel Baran claims BART should pay because their trains aren't equipped with tech to stop the trains when someone climbs on the roof of a moving train
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San Francisco, Santa Clara, others sue Trump to halt DOJ actions vs 'Sanctuary' cities, counties

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The lawsuit comes as a preemptive strike against the Trump administration, which has signaled its intent to use funding cuts, lawsuits and other actions to pressure 'Sanctuary' governments into complying with efforts to remove criminals and other illegal immigrants from the U.S.
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CA A/G Bonta threatens hospitals for complying with Trump's order blocking child gender transition procedures

By Jonathan Bilyk |
Attorney General Rob Bonta sent a letter to Children's Hospital Los Angeles and issued a public statement threatening state action vs hospitals and other medical providers who comply with President Trump's order forbidding federal funding and directing federal action vs those providing child gender transition procedures
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Ex-49er Stubblefield, who used 'anti-racism' law to beat rape conviction, nearer release from prison

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A CA appeals court, which declared 'racially discriminatory' statements from prosecutors should reverse Dana Stubblefield's rape conviction, has also declared a judge must immediately decide if he should be released from prison
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Appeals court: SF City Hall, fed judge wrongly crushed workers' religious Covid jab objections

By Jonathan Bilyk |
A federal appeals panel has ordered an Oakland federal judge to issue an injunction sought by ex-city workers who say they wrongly lost their jobs for refusing the city's Covid shot mandate for its workers. The appeals panel said the city and a federal judge were wrong to gloss over the workers' 'crisis of conscience'
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LA school district gets new chance to shut down lawsuit over Covid vax mandate

By Jonathan Bilyk |
The full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out their colleagues' earlier holding that had allowed L.A. public school workers to sue L.A. Unified School District over its Covid shot mandate, because the Covid shots don't prevent infection. LAUSD said the effectiveness of the shot shouldn't matter to the court

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