by Judy Lin for CalMatters SACRAMENTO — Quebec Premier François Legault will be hosted by Gov. Gavin Newsom in Sacramento to discuss reducing greenhouse gases. Today’s closed-door...
by Rhonda Lyons for CalMatters SACRAMENTO — On the heels of the #MeToo movement, California has approved a new law extending the statute of limitations on...
By Dan Morain for CalMatters SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers knew the reproductive FACT Act had constitutional issues, but passed it anyway. Now that the U.S. Supreme...
WASHINGTON — Lambda Legal has asked a federal court to end the U.S. Social Security Administration’s (SSA) categorical refusal to provide spousal survivor’s benefits to a...
NEW YORK/CALIFORNIA (Daily Mail) — Lawmakers in California and New York are proposing bills that would effectively ban surgery on intersex children unless the operations were...
by Tom Dresslar (CalMatters) — The people of California, through their legislature and governor, just decided to end a decades-long, unbridled fleecing of millions of the...
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation on November 2nd declaring “California Women’s Equality Day” in recognition of the centennial anniversary of California’s ratification of...
WASHINGTON DC (ProPublica) — This week, in a near-unanimous vote, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment to help heirs’ property owners clear titles. Heirs’ property refers...
By Steven Lubet for The Conversation Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will donate to charity the US $1 million Berggruen Prize for Culture and Philosophy she recently...
by Joel Bellman for CalMatters LOS ANGELES –In a blue state, in a blue city, on the Bruin blue campus of a public university system that...
By Rachel Becker for CalMatters SACRAMENTO — California’s latest clean air fight with Trump’s EPA is about more than backlogged paperwork — but it likely won’t...
by Kyle Greenwalt for The Conversation Pregnant teachers in classrooms are routine these days. But the law didn’t always protect expectant women in any workplace. As...