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First Amendment questions and California arbitration battles

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Next, we explore the bounds of the Federal Arbitration Act, with a pair of petitions arguing that California’s efforts to restrict arbitration agreements undermine federal law. Rollins challenges a Massachusetts law that makes it a felony to secretly record the speech of anyone other than a law enforcement officer, irrespective of motive.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

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for shipping undocumented migrants to California. It is a curious call for a governor to make after he ran ads in Florida calling on people to “join us in California.” came across as the ultimate example of California dreaming, as Newsom and a chorus of politicians and pundits called for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R.,

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Court to decide requirements for noncitizens defending against federal prosecution for criminal re-entry

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In 1991, he received a felony conviction for driving under the influence under California law and completed his sentence. The government alleged that he was removable, despite having a green card, because it believed that his 1991 DUI constituted an “aggravated felony” under the immigration laws.

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The Supreme Court doesn’t decide all important issues

At the Lectern

That 2018 legislation, which scales back the felony-murder rule and the “natural and probable consequences” doctrine, has been attacked by various district attorney’s around the state as an invalid amendment of several voter initiatives and as a violation of the separation of powers. Marquez (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

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With Justice Stephen Breyer expected to retire at the end of this term , California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger is one of the frontrunners to succeed him. A native of southern California, Kruger is the daughter of two physicians. An “out of the box” pick for the California Supreme Court. Supreme Court.

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Supreme Court grants review in one bail denial case, orders an OSC in another

At the Lectern

California Mutual Insurance Company , which, according to the published opinion of the Fourth District, Division One, “present[ed] an issue of first impression for a California appellate court: does a commercial property insurance policy provide coverage for a business’s lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic? Covid insurance.

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Solar energy, civil sexual assault cases to be decided

At the Lectern

It concerns what the First District, Division Three, Court of Appeal described in its published opinion as a change to California’s decades-long “net energy metering. The court will hear the big-deal case of Center for Biological Diversity v. Public Utilities Commission. ” Lawsuit dismissal and res judicata.

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