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'Threat to direct democracy:' CA Supreme Court ruling preserves Dem power over CA taxes, fees
The California Supreme Court has kicked off the fall 2024 ballot the so-called Taxpayer Protection Act, a citizen initiative that would have required state and local governments to get voter OK before hiking taxes and fees. The court agreed with Gov. Gavin Newsom that the initiative exceeded citizen initiative power -
CA Supreme Court hands win to primary insurers in fight vs excess insurance providers over asbestos claims
The California Supreme Court said lower courts were wrong to block a primary insurer saddled with massive claims resulting from asbestos-related lawsuits vs Kaiser Gypsum from seeking additional coverage from Kaiser's excess liability insurance providers -
CA Supreme Court clears way for UC Berkeley housing project; Law says student noise can't stop new developments
The California Supreme Court has ruled a new state law indeed pulls the rug out from under opponents of the People's Park student housing project at UC Berkeley, who had scored a win on appeal to force the school to include concerns over 'student-generated noise' in their environmental review -
CA Supreme Court: LA assessor right, State Board wrong on when corporate owned properties can be reassessed
The California Supreme Court says property transfers of corporate-owned property can trigger a reassessment under Prop 13, even if the property remains essentially under the same control throughout. "Stock" refers to real ownership interests, not who controls a company, the high court says -
Appeals court: CA Supreme Court ruling makes Macy's next retailer unable to escape PAGA class action
A panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said a recent ruling from the California Supreme Court makes it impossible for Macy's to escape a class action under California's controversial Private Attorney General Act, even though the lead plaintiff's "individual claims" must go to arbitration -
Good intentions enough to protect company from class action lawyers
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Businesses have received a measure of relief from the California Supreme Court, which has rejected a call for penalties against a company that thought it was complying with state law. -
CA Supreme Court majority: Race may need to be considered by cops when detaining 'nervous' suspects
A unanimous California Supreme Court has ruled police cannot choose to detain suspects simply because they act nervously or seek to avoid interacting with officers. But a majority on the court called for future decisions to account for black suspects' fear of police, potentially allowing them to outright flee from officers -
Pre-trial jail inmates aren't entitled to minimum wage for jail kitchen work, CA Supreme Court says
A class action lawsuit claimed that, since state penal laws don't explicitly limit their earning abilities in jail, people not yet convicted of crimes should still be protected by California's minimum wage laws while working in the jail for private services vendors. Not so, California Supreme Court said. -
CA Supreme Court says car buyers can demand to keep trade-in credits under 'lemon law' verdicts
Automaker Stellantis/FCA had argued such a ruling would essentially allow car buyers to profit when they buy defective cars, trade them in toward the purchase of other vehicles, and then sue under the lemon law for a full refund. -
California employers hammered by record number of PAGA lawsuit filings in 2023, analysis finds
It was a record-breaking year for California’s PAGA (Private Attorneys General Act) in 2023, with nearly 8,000 notices filed, even after a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling found PAGA is subject to terms of the Federal Arbitration Act. -
Cal Supreme Court OKs new ethics rules to fight conflicts of interest
Newly issued rules from the California Supreme Court are designed to combat corruption and to prevent conflicts of interest like those resulting from the Thomas Girardi scandal. -
California Supreme Court says drug abuse alone not enough to justify removing kids from parents
Unanimous ruling sends father's lawsuit back to appellate court for reconsideration under new framing of legal standard that did away with the so-called tender years presumption. -
Proposed Amended Conflict of Interest Code for Designated Employees of the Supreme Court of California
The Political Reform Act of 1974 (Gov. Code, § 81000 et seq.) requires public agencies to adopt conflict of interest codes for their officers and employees. (Gov. Code, § 87300.) -
Rampant PAGA, Prop 65 lawsuits land California courts high on list of worst U.S. 'Judicial Hellholes'
The report issued by the American Tort Reform Association says California ranks third on the annual list, thanks to its continued status as lawyers' 'laboratory' for innovative ways to increase businesses' lawsuit risk -
CA Supreme Court says PG&E customers can't sue utility over forced blackouts during wildfire season
Attorneys for the plaintiffs say the decision marks a "sad day" in California, as they predict it will remove the risk of harmful lawsuits and allow PG&E and other California utilities to shut off power to California communities more often and for longer periods -
A Supreme Success: Justice Kelli Evans Featured in UC Davis Magazine
California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kelli Evans, J.D. ’94, sits inside her chambers in San Francisco with a sweeping view of Civic Center Plaza and City Hall. -
Newsom, California Dems ask state high court to block voters from reining in their ability to raise taxes
As Californians face more tax increases, a new ballot measure that would allow residents to have a say in the process is being challenged by government leaders in a petition to the state Supreme Court. -
California Supreme Court to Hold Oral Argument Remotely
The California Supreme Court will host its oral argument session remotely on Wednesday in light of events in San Francisco’s Civic Center honoring the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. -
California High Court tells appeals panel to revisit whether Santa Monica's at-large voting weakens Latinos at the polls
State Supreme Court has ordered an appellate court to reexamine its decision that an activist group failed to show Santa Monica's at-large voting system "dilutes" Latino voting power, saying the lower court did not undertake a "searching" evaluation of the issue. -
California Supreme Court rule to report attorney misconduct takes effect, to avoid repeat of Girardi debacle
A new rule from the California Supreme Court requires increased oversight among attorneys, a mandate long present in other states, and now here following high profile cases of wrongdoing including now disbarred attorney Thomas Girardi.