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Litigation related to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become increasingly common in federal and state courts. [1] Following adoption of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) and publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), additional pressure was placed on California public agencies to evaluate potential ...
Sterling Tucker (December 21, 1923 – July 14, 2019) was an American civil and political rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C. He was the first chair of the Council of the District of Columbia and was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of the city in 1978.
The officer must ensure that "the laws of the state are uniformly and adequately enforced" (Constitution of California, Article V, Section 13). The California attorney general carries out the responsibilities of the office through the California Department of Justice. The department employs over 1,100 attorneys and 3,700 non-attorney employees.
California Attorney General warned police about license plate data law. Departments ignored him. Stephen Hobbs, Tyler Dukes. July 1, 2024 at 7:07 PM. Travis Long/tlong@newsobserver.com.
As a judge and an attorney, Larson is known for high-profile cases, including his role from 2011 to 2018 as lead defense counsel in People v. Biane et al., the case which former California Attorney General (and former governor) Jerry Brown once touted as "the biggest corruption scandal in San Bernardino County, if not the state's, history. [3]
Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U.S. 63 (2003), [1] decided the same day as Ewing v. California (a case with a similar subject matter), [2] held that there would be no relief by means of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments.
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A cryptocurrency platform run by Robinhood Markets will pay $3.9 million to settle claims it failed to let customers withdraw cryptocurrency from their accounts from ...
On June 10, 2021, California Attorney General Bonta and Bureau of Firearms Director Luis Lopez appealed the ruling to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. [10] [16] On June 21, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit – Barry G. Silverman, Jacqueline Nguyen, and Ryan D. Nelson – granted their request to extend the stay as appeals are litigated.