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

JonathanTurley

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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No, Trump Supporters Cannot “Citizen Arrest” the Judge or James in New York

JonathanTurley

Indeed, the Statute of Winchester states that citizens should “follow them with all the town and the towns near, with hue and cry from town to town until that they be taken and delivered to the sheriff.” ” The right still exists for any felonies (or certain misdemeanors committed in the presence of the citizen).

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Freedom of Movement: Understanding Immigration Through The Lens Of Jaywalking Laws

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With the decriminalization of jaywalking in Nevada , Virginia and now California — the “ Freedom to Walk ” Act will take effect in Los Angeles in the new year — it appears that people understand this when it comes to jaywalking, but not when it comes to immigration. . When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S.

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Roughing the Protester? Activist Tackled by Rams Players Files Police Report and Threatens Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

PETA and other groups have called the activists “heroes” f or their actions but prosecutors are seeking convictions for felony burglary and theft charges. The protester was engaged, at a minimum, in a criminal misdemeanor while be pursued by security. In my view, Wagner and McKinley had a right to tackle the protester.

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Supreme Court will hear forum selection and workers’ comp cases, but it turns down two animal rights matters; also, there’s one separate statement

At the Lectern

Granting a two-day-late petition for review (related: Getting relief for a late petition for review might not be a hopeless cause ; and see here , here , and here ), the court also agreed to hear California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation v. Board of Trustees of the California State University is a grant-and-hold for Stone v.

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Supreme Court takes three cases and depublishes three opinions; dissenting votes in four review denials

At the Lectern

Division Six concluded an erroneous felony-murder instruction was harmless. The unpublished opinion of the First District, Division One, affirmed the sustaining of a wardship petition for misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. Offley (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th 5th 588), in which no petition for review was filed. ” (Emphasis added.) .”

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. People of State of California v. California Federal Court Upheld Environmental Law Waivers for Border Wall.

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