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pointing to barriers in areas like housing segregation and voter suppression, as well as “forced labor” that “rested on discrimination in law enforcement, judicial decisions, and prison sentencing that doomed African Americans to slavery-like conditions....
For the Democratic Attorneys General Assn., a political action committee-turned-judicial alliance of progressive top cops, the Hollywood policy conference was a chance to plot their next move in an ongoing barrage of lawsuits against the Trump administration. Their stated aim is to thwart a constit...
Section 3. In fact, the language of Section 3 states: “The powers of state government are legislative, executive, and judicial. Persons charged with the exercise of one power may not exercise either of the others except as permitted by this Constitution.” ...
There is little room for judicial discretion. Which means that the V-date can be a victory date for some spouses, if market conditions are in their favour on the day they separate. But the Ontario statute on the V-date can encourage devious behaviour on the part of warring spouses. One...
Janet Nguyen (R-Garden Grove) had asked for a partial review of election results that had her losing to Tom Umberg. (Marc Martin / Los Angeles Times) Democrat Tom Umberg’s election victory will stand in the 34th state Senate District after supporters of losing Republican...
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3d 56, 62.) However, there has [43 Cal. App. 3d 321] been no judicial formulation of a precise definition of the term "municipal affairs." (Bishop v. City of San Jose, supra.) The approach has been largely ad hoc, each case being resolved according to its particular facts. (Sato,...
judicial interpretation by hedging it with a decisional procedure intended to bring a measure of certainty to the process, narrowing the scope within which a sometimes mercurial discretion operates. In broad outline, a court asked to resolve a putative conflict between a state statute and a charter...
(B) any misdemeanor conviction for which probation has been successfully completed or otherwise discharged and the case has been judicially dismissed pursuant to Penal Code Section 1203.4. See also California Penal Code Section 851.7, regarding expungement of misdemeanor convictions.See...