Gov. Gavin Newsom is streamlining a major mixed-use development near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles to speed the building of housing and urban infrastructure, using new state laws aimed at reducing environmental litigation.
A late addition to the budget could stop a hard-fought opportunity for voters to have their say on a November 2024 ballot measure about the future of fast food in California.
As the California Legislature continues its work to balance energy and environmental concerns, a new bill to make it easier to produce fuel products here, reducing reliance on oil from countries that don’t share the same values, has received unanimous bipartisan support
With proposed state legislation nearing a crucial June deadline, another bill to change the system of direct democracy in California remains under discussion in Sacramento
As storms bring rain and snow to California, Governor Newsom signed an executive order that makes it easier to capture floodwater to recharge groundwater – temporarily lifting regulations and setting clear conditions for diverting flood stage water without permits to boost groundwater recharge storage.
With the debate between candidates for California governor set for later this weekend, it’s raising questions about how each will address inflation, cost of living, and crime – issues that have consistently ranked as important to voters throughout this election year.
With national figures flying in to campaign for Gov. Gavin Newsom in the lead up to the recall, it’s raising questions about the impact on the election outcome and how public education, homelessness, wildfires, and other issues that have led to the recall will be addressed.
A federal judge on Friday denied a legal challenge that sought to change or cancel the upcoming gubernatorial recall election, stating there is “no chance” the plaintiffs could prevail on the merits because their “federal constitutional rights simply are not violated.”
Following the Legislature’s passage of key remaining measures of the architecture of the 2021-22 state budget, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the below legislation.
Governor Gavin Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) announced an agreement on a broadband trailer bill, AB/SB 156, to expand the state’s broadband fiber infrastructure and increase internet connectivity for families and businesses.
Governor Gavin Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) issued a statement regarding the 2021-22 state budget.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge is expected to issue a ruling Monday on whether Gov. Gavin Newsom’s party affiliation will appear on the gubernatorial recall election ballot.
While preliminary data released by the Secretary of State shows the special election to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom is likely to proceed, Californians’ appetite to do so this fall compared to last remains to be seen.
SACRAMENTO - Leslie Gielow Jacobs, inaugural Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Professor of Law at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, told the Northern California Record that legal challenges to an order by Gov. Gavin Newsom requiring residents to wear face masks to prevent COVID-19 are not likely to succeed.
With the COVID-19 pandemic causing extreme infection rates at nursing homes across California, some health care trade groups have been calling for immunity protection from litigation, a move that nursing home reform backers say would lead to more deaths.
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a bill that opens a three-year window to allow sexual abuse victims of any age in the state to sue on previously expired claims. Some groups, however, say the new law could lead to a big bump in civil litigation and the bankruptcy of some small school districts.
SACRAMENTO – Some employer attorneys say Private Attorneys General Act lawsuits will increase due to the provisions of the recently signed Senate Bill 142.
