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Quiet on the Set! Attorney General Bonta Secures Critical, Early Win

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted the states’ request for a temporary

Californians are subsidizing mansion wildfire insurance as FAIR risk explodes

As commercial insurers have fled California in the wake of wildfires, FAIR has become the insurer of first resort for owners of multimillion-dollar properties in exclusive but fire-prone communities.

Almost nowhere in California is building enough, according to the state. Here’s why

California ordered cities and counties to plan for 2.5 million new homes by 2030. Only five jurisdictions are on track to hit their numbers.

Who Rules Oakland? : Indybay

The Oakland Chamber of Commerce and other business lobbies in the East Bay have recently pressured government officials to crack down on Occupy Oakland. Furthermore, they have popularized a narrative portraying Occupy as "harmful to local business." We critically examine ruling class networks of shared ownership, governance, and political advocacy impacting communities in Oakland by revealing links between the directors and executives of major corporations that are members in the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. In subsequent parts to this series we will provide more detailed information about the directors and executives of these companies, and provide an analysis of their social cohesion, profit-driven collusion, and political influence. More broadly, we will explore networks and institutions of economic and political power in the Bay Area.

Why They Don’t Want You Driving a Chinese Car

Politicians say they have “national security concerns.” In fact, Chinese cars are better and cheaper, and American corporations know they can’t survive market competition.

I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead

California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.

Why Mississippi Courts Must Produce Public Defense Plans

The state Supreme Court wants to know how local courts provide lawyers, if any, to poor people after their arrest.

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Mississippi Courts Won’t Say How They Provide Lawyers for Poor Clients

Six years ago, the Mississippi Supreme Court told judges around the state to file plans showing how they meet their obligations to poor defendants. So far, only one has.

Last-Mile Optimism

Reducing Waste. Eliminating Fraud. Promoting Civic Responsibility. At least that’s what the city bureaucrats said.

AI fabrications in legal filings grow in Oregon, US

The general counsel for the Oregon State Bar said fabricated cases and citations have become more common among lawyers and people representing themselves.

Mississippi public defender system varies widely by county, court plans show

In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that the Sixth Amendment requires states to provide lawyers to criminal defendants who cannot afford one. Mississippi delegates that responsibility to counties, a system civil rights attorneys say is inconsistent and ineffective.

Shareholder Democracy Is a Corporate Governance Myth That Won’t Die

In a new article, we challenge one of corporate law’s most persistent narratives: the concept of “shareholder democracy.” With people on opposing sides of recent high-profile battles at compa…

The Supreme Court is corrupting American democracy

One cannot hope to bribe or twist/ (thank God!) the U.S. chief jurist

Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist

“It's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didn’t read it for whatever reason, didn’t check it.”