Judges in Climate Change and Immigration Cases Tell the Executive and Congress: Do Your Job
While the national focus on the courts is on President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court, it is interesting that in the last few weeks two federal judges in California concluded cases on the controversial issues of climate change and immigration by both basically telling lawmakers and the executive branch […]
Modern Internet Policies Will Help Latinos Succeed In California
Internet inequality produces economic inequality, which is why all residents of California should be extremely worried about the lack of access for communities of color. For California’s Latino communities in particular, the digital divide has made it increasingly difficult to participate in the rapidly evolving modern economy. Yet certain lawmakers in Congress are supporting misguided […]
The Private Attorney General Act (PAGA) is an Outdated Law
October 12, 2003 Gray Davis signed a new law SB 796 referred to as PAGA and I am not sure if anyone really knew what the outcome would really be. In the first seven months of PAGA 65 cases were filed and the first 9 suits totaled 336 million in penalties. AMGEN was sued over […]