A People's Choice

APRIL 25, 2022

The adoption process has been around for thousands of years, with roots extending to the ancient Roman Empire and beyond. This legal process establishes a parent-child relationship between adoptive parents and an adopted child.

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A People's Choice

APRIL 20, 2022

Adoption is a beautiful thing. It's the official legal process of assigning parental rights to adoptive parents, making the adopted child a legal part of the family. Nonetheless, adoption comes with its fair share of worries, and the cost is one of them.

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A People's Choice

MAY 9, 2022

You may wonder, "Can I adopt my siblings in California?" Not every adoption involves adoption service providers and strangers meeting to hand over a newborn. If you're an adult with much younger siblings, what happens if your siblings need a better living situation than they currently have? The answer is yes!

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A People's Choice

MAY 30, 2022

"Can I adopt my relative in California?" Perhaps you want to serve as an adoptive parent to a niece, nephew, grandchild, or cousin whose birth parents can't do the job for whatever reason. People ask this question more than you might expect. If the process seems intimidating and you aren't sure how to do [.].

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A People's Choice

AUGUST 7, 2020

Unless a birth parent agrees to a stepparent adoption, that individual's parental rights will need to be terminated in order for the adoption to continue. However, if the biological father in unknown, the court may not require a hearing. However, if the biological father in unknown, the court may not require a hearing.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

Account holders Thursday filed a class action lawsuit against PayPal in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. PayPal also allegedly violated the Electronic Funds Transfer Act and the California Business & Professions Code.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Some states have adopted minor changes, e.g., New Jersey now permits TV ads to include music and animation. While the states are changing their rules, they are not adopting the most recent version of the ABA Model Rules governing law firm marketing per se. Changes to state advertising rules. The ABA Model Rules. Law firm trade names.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Hong Kong Sanctions Act was introduced by Massachusetts Representative Jim McGovern, Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan, California Representative Young Kim, Utah Representative John Curtis and Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley on November 2. In his writ, Siu requested that the court permit all individuals to arrest the five US lawmakers.

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A People's Choice

JUNE 6, 2022

You saw how some foreign kids lived, and you decided you needed to take action by adopting a child. You decided that you want to adopt [.]. Little did you know that a glance at a foreign country will change your life forever.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 5, 2022

If the group is serious about improving access to justice by lowering the educational barrier to entry, they should lobby the ABA’s Section of Legal Education to adopt changes that would reduce the overall cost of law school by reducing course load or substituting work experience for academic credit.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Virtually every state adopted the rule. California, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., Depending on your point of view, there’s either lots new or “not so much” new with law firm ownership. Most lawyers are familiar with Rule 5.4 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Seems Like the Status Quo.

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A People's Choice

MAY 2, 2022

This same thing happens when a celebrity adopts a child. Adoption cases like those of Angelina Jolie, Sia, and Sandra Bullock [.]. News about their public and private lives makes headlines constantly, creating waves among their fanbase and the general masses alike.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

EPA (April 23) Whether fuel producers have a legal right to challenge a waiver, given to California, of the general bar on the adoption of emissions standards by states. Zuch (April 22) Issues regarding when a tax hearing becomes moot that is, no longer a live controversy. Diamond Alternative Energy v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a challenge to California’s vehicle emissions standards as well as a Wisconsin case concerning tax exemptions for religious organizations. The post US Supreme Court to take up California emissions, Wisconsin religious tax exemption cases appeared first on JURIST - News.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

Share A divided Supreme Court on Friday night granted a request by a California pastor to put COVID-related restrictions on in-home Bible study and prayer meetings on hold. In a brief filed on Thursday , California countered that its policy applied to all gatherings, whether they are secular or religious.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 26, 2020

He further argued that states might not adopt counterterrorism measures to justify government intrusions, adding that these “justifications should be limited to situations in which the interest of the whole nation is at stake, rather than the interests of the government, a regime, or a power group alone.”. “The

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

California firms are making their voices heard during this round of raises. The post Elite West Coast Firm Adopts Davis Polk Salary Scale appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOCAblog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Overview California can and should adopt a parliamentary system. Proposition X would survive legal challenges, including the amendment–revision and separation of powers doctrines, and the federal constitution’s guarantee clause.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Supreme Court should seize the opportunity to adopt the Restatement with respect to maritime contracts”: A little over a month ago, Nicholas J. Neidzwski had this essay in The Daily Journal of California. The post “The murky waters where state law and federal maritime law converge; The U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A California privacy law set to go into effect in 2024 will reshape how children and teens use the Internet, Caitlin Dewey reports for Pew Trusts Stateline news service. Several states have adopted the approach. Several states have adopted the approach. Some commentators say it can act as a model for national legislation.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 25, 2021

The plaintiff Candie Frazier filed this class action suit on behalf of all others similarly situated before the US central district court of California. She contends that TikTok has thus acted negligently and failed to provide a safe working environment mandated under California’s labor laws.

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Above The Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Congratulations to LGBTQ+ parents in Colorado, New Hampshire, California, Maryland, and New Jersey for having a less painful legal option for family protection. The post The Bad News Is That Nonbirthing Moms Now, More Than Ever, Need To Adopt Their Own Children. The Good News Is That At Least Some States Are Making That Easier.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 6, 2025

Kansas and California have somewhat similar methods of selecting and electing their supreme court justices, methods that significantly reduce the influence of partisan politics. However, pending legislation would, if adopted, move the two states in dramatically opposite directions. Kansas constitution, article 3 , section 5.)

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Intelligize Blog

AUGUST 29, 2024

The state of California tends to lead the way in applying progressive policies to emerging business issues, so should come as no surprise that lawmakers in the Golden State are trying to address some of the landmines around artificial intelligence. So Big Tech should be supporting legislation intended to do just in California, right?

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Several states, including Connecticut, California, District of Columbia , Massachusetts , and Nevada, have adopted or incorporated the Code in their statutes or regulations. For example, California’s drug marketing law requires pharmaceutical companies to adopt an internal marketing compliance policy that aligns with the PhRMA Code.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

After Yegiazaryan and his brother, Artem, were indicated in Russia for that fraud in 2010, the two men fled to California, where they live in a Beverly Hills home owned by Yegiazaryan’s cousin. Smagin then went to federal court in California to confirm and enforce the arbitration award. In April 2020, the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2022

Now, as California remains woefully behind on protecting critical data, a new audit from the state warns that some state agencies aren’t up to date on information security standards — and a lack of oversight and transparency that “plagues” the state department of technology makes it impossible to know more, according to Courthouse News. “It

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Courts in other states had rejected that argument (see our articles on decisions in New York , Florida and Georgia ), but the question of the status of the law remained unresolved in California. In fact, we wrote about Flo & Eddie making exactly that argument against radio broadcasters in California.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

Smagin adopts a “context-specific inquiry” to determine whether a plaintiff in a private lawsuit brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act has alleged “a domestic injury to its business or property” sufficient to state a civil claim for damages under Section 1964(c) of the federal RICO statute.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Reynolds sued California's attorney general on Wednesday to block S.B. Reynolds by adopting a proposition approving the law. 793, a law that bans the sale of flavored tobacco products in the state, just a day after Golden State voters tanked a referendum effort by big tobacco companies like R.J.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Share When George Sheetz applied in 2016 to build a single-family home on property that he owned, the California county where he lived required him to pay a “traffic impact mitigation” fee, totaling more than $23,000, before it would issue the permit. California Coastal Commission and Dolan v. In Nollan v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In Regents of University of California v. Eight states have banned affirmative action, including California and Michigan. He has subsequently used Students for Fair Admissions to recruit “members” to serve as plaintiffs in his renewed effort to dismantle affirmative action. A UCLA-led study found that “??in

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Share In 2018, California voters approved Proposition 12, a ballot initiative that its supporters describe as the country’s strongest law to protect farm animals. Violators face fines and the possibility of a 180-day prison sentence for each sale of pork in California that does not meet the state’s standards.

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

MARCH 31, 2023

The California Family Rights Act (CFRA) and California Pregnancy Disability Leave law allow employees to take as many as 28 weeks of leave for pregnancy, childbirth, and baby bonding reasons. Pregnant employees can also apply for short-term disability benefits with the California State Disability Insurance program.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 13, 2021

Bonta, Attorney General of California , that could have an even more direct effect on the political advertising disclosure obligations of broadcasters. In that case, the Court struck down a California requirement that charities operating in California reveal to the state their major donors.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In 2018, the Washington high court adopted a rule that made it easier for opposing lawyers to challenge a peremptory strike without having to prove intentional discrimination. In 2020, California passed legislation that codified much of Washington’s rule into California law.

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Law 360

MAY 13, 2025

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced Tuesday that he had adopted a judge's recommendation to approve State Farm General Insurance Co.'s s request for an emergency rate increase for property insurance in the state, following January wildfires that have already cost California insurers $12.1

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