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Governor Gavin Newsom has issued dozens of pardons and commutations since taking office; recent official tallies from his office list totals such as 263 pardons, 160 commutations and 42 reprieves (ann...
has issued multiple over his tenure that, according to official press releases, comprise dozens of pardons, commutations and reprieves, but the public record needed to produce a definitive, consolidat...
Court rulings this year have produced , with some high courts endorsing commission-created maps and others deferring to legislatures, producing a fragmented national landscape. Key rulings in Utah and...
can be grounds for termination or disciplinary action—employers are legally obligated to prevent race-based harassment, and workplace rules or at‑will employment give employers broad authority to disc...
’s core homicide statute criminalizes unlawful killing with malice aforethought and, by longstanding construction, applies only to a “human being” post‑live birth; separate statutory and common‑law st...
’s daily overtime regime forces employers to calculate the “regular rate” for overtime and premium-pay purposes more generously than in many bonus scenarios: non‑discretionary bonuses must be included...
Court dockets are searchable through official court websites and docket services (for example, the California Supreme Court’s docket search lets users search by case name or party) . Flight-tracking a...
California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission is legally required to prioritize , and it must draw districts that are . The commission is barred from favoring incumbents, parties, or candidates, and ...
still authorizes capital punishment under state law—Penal Code 190.2 and related statutes remain on the books—yet the state has not carried out an execution since 2006 and the governor has placed a fo...
No court challenges to an actual, enacted “exit tax” or newly tightened residency rules have been reported in the sources provided because California has not enacted an exit tax; proposed measures and...
law requires that any clemency—pardon or commutation—granted to a person with two or more felony convictions first receive recommendations from and the concurrence of . In practice under , those insti...
’s clemency announcements over multiple years include commutations for a number of offenders convicted of — in some high-profile batches that specifically named inmates convicted of murder, attempted ...
Federal and state anti-discrimination laws make racial slurs in the workplace potentially unlawful when they amount to harassment that creates a hostile, intimidating, or offensive work environment or...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that Travis Collins—who was publicly tried in 2025 in Dauphin County for the alleged homicide at the Harrisburg Hilton—has filed a formal appeal or a post...
California law does not contain a single, explicit statutory definition of “viability” across all contexts; courts and statutory schemes treat fetal viability and newborn protections differently depen...
As of November 2025, reporting and official materials in the provided search results focus heavily on Proposition 50, the November 4 special election about redrawing California’s congressional maps, a...
The California Supreme Court is the ultimate state arbiter on redistricting disputes, with authority to grant or deny emergency relief, interpret Article XXI’s “once‑per‑decade” rule, appoint special ...
Executive Summary The California Supreme Court has repeatedly acted as a decisive backstop in the state's redistricting disputes, exercising original jurisdiction to resolve stalemates, extending dead...
California courts over the past decade offer on statutes closely resembling AB 495; the available record in the provided materials shows more statutory developments and political debate than clear, co...