The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

With the decriminalization of jaywalking in Nevada , Virginia and now California — the “ Freedom to Walk ” Act will take effect in Los Angeles in the new year — it appears that people understand this when it comes to jaywalking, but not when it comes to immigration. . When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In an interview co-published by The Crime Report and The Imprint , Contra Costa County (California) DA Diana Becton offers an impassioned defense of her record in changing the juvenile justice system in her jurisdiction. The DA’s office used to be really a family, and we had BBQs and baseball games,” she said on the “WTF California” podcast.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The courts, including the state supreme court , ruled for Cross, noting that he could keep his job, adhere to his faith and satisfy the policy by avoiding pronouns altogether. Recently, a California court ruled that misgendering patients is protected despite a landmark LGBTQ+ rights bill.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2021

which states a person who commits any primary offense — such as misdemeanor property destruction — with the intent to “intimidate or terrorize another person or with reason to believe that his action would intimidate or terrorize that person” is subject to a class B misdemeanor primary offense becoming a class A misdemeanor.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At its conference yesterday, a double one, the Supreme Court ruled on a robust 164 matters. The court granted review in EpicentRx, Inc. Had the defendant’s conviction been of a misdemeanor instead of later reduced to a misdemeanor, lifetime registration would have been discretionary instead of mandatory.

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Misdemeanor Court Entertainment Felony 45

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. On March 1, the court set a schedule for motions to dismiss, with the parties’ briefing to be completed by April 10. People of State of California v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Alito would reverse the lower courts ruling without additional briefing or oral arguments. He emphasized that the lower courts made more than a trifling mistake. The question came to the court in the case of John Woodward, who was tried twice for murder. In Woodward v.

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Court Misdemeanor Court Decisions Laws 89

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. Federal Court Rejected Federal Preemption Challenge to Berkeley Natural Gas Ban. California Restaurant Association v. California v. Haaland , No. July 23, 2021).

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