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The duplex in East Sacramento where Elizabeth Olson currently lives with her dog and two-year-old son, Lucas. Olson says she would not be able to afford a single-family home in this neighborhood. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters By Manuela Tobias | CalMatters The state housing department is gearing up to send stern warnings to cities trying to skirt a new housing law advocates hope will br...

The Guardian or Authority of Law, created by sculptor James Earle Fraser, rests on the side of the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 28, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Help keep LAist independent, paywall-free, and ready to meet the needs of our city by making a donation during our spring fundraiser. Plus, you'll get us one step closer to unlocking an important $10,000 challenge for local news! In ...

A lobbying arm of the American mining industry roughly doubled its spending last year as Congress took up legislation to overhaul the law that allows a category of mining companies, unlike oil and gas firms, to operate on federal land without paying royalties. The National Mining Association spent $2.1 million lobbying federal agencies and Congress in 2021, records show, a sharp uptick from 2...

The Department of Justice announced two indictments this past week relating to the seizure and shutdown of two major cybercrime forums and marketplaces. Both operations were the result of extensive collaborations and efforts between numerous U.S. agencies and departments that included the DEA, FBI, IRS, Postal Inspection Service and several more. On April 5, the U.S. District Court for the No...

Alyssa Whitaker 1L “During the confirmation, I definitely got teary-eyed, in part because of my frustration and the process, but also the fact that this woman is beyond accomplished in everything she has done, yet still that has not garnered the respect of these senators,” said Whitaker. “But on a different note, it’s reinforcing the promise of democracy. The idea of what America is versus wh...

Earlier this year, the trial of one of the challenges to SB 826, California's female director quota law, concluded but Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis has yet to release her decision. Crest v. Weber, Cal. Super. Ct. Case No. 19STCV27561. Meanwhile, another challenge to SB 826 is pending in federal court. In December, U.S. District Court Judge denied the plaintiff's motion...

By Grace Gedye In the early 2000s, California lawmakers identified a problem: There weren’t nearly enough state investigators and lawyers to pursue all the potential violations of workplace laws, such as minimum wage, overtime pay, and more. So they passed a law letting workers sue their employers in the name of the state, seeking penalties that up until then had been the exclusive domain of ...

Jimmy Lai’s international legal team call on the United Nations to investigate repeated criminal prosecutions. Media mogul Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, arrives at the West Kowloon Law Courts building to face charges related to an illegal vigil assembly commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, in Hong Kong, China, Oct. 15, 2020. Lawyers for jailed pro-democracy media magnate Ji...

Join us on Wednesday April 20 at 5 p.m. ET for this week's Lawfare Live co-sponsored by the National Security Law Society at the Georgetown University Law Center! Lawfare Senior Editor Scott Anderson will participate in a panel that includes Brian Finucane, Senior Adviser at the International Crisis Group, and Todd Huntley, Director of the National Security Law Program at Georgetown Law Cente...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson told backers at a recent event in Wisconsin that his plastics company benefitted from a key provision he pushed for in former President Donald Trump’s tax bill in 2017, addressing a line of attack being made against him during his reelection bid. Johnson made the comments in reaction to a question from an audience member at an event Friday in ...