The Southern California Record

14/07/2025

LA's City Controller says the city's liability payments were up 226% in the just completed fiscal year, punching an unexpected hole worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the city's budget

19/06/2025

A state appeals court says Palm Springs must pay more for labor on a big downtown plaza redevelopment project despite $51 million in city funds being invested in the work, because the city is partnering with a private developer on the project, so it can't escape California's prevailing wage law

PALM SPRINGS - A state appeals panel has agreed that although a charter city is involved and invested into a private development project, that work isn’t exempt from California’s prevailing

04/06/2025

A California Republican congressman says the Golden State's vote-by-mail system - forcing votes to be counted if they are received up to a week after Election Day - is illegal. His case may be tied to a similar case out of Illinois, which is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court

In coming months, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up an Illinois congressman's claims that lower courts were wrong to box him out from suing the state over its mail-in

21/05/2025

LANSING, Michigan – A group has submitted language to the Michigan Board of Canvassers for a ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to ensure only American citizens can vote in all state and local elections.Americans for Citizen Voting – Michigan submitted the language April 30. Read more…

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21/05/2025

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Legal Newsline) - Puerto Rico has abandoned its climate change lawsuit, adding to the growing list of setbacks for the alliance of private lawyers and government officials suing the energy industry.

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21/05/2025

DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - Union Pacific Railroad isn’t liable for the su***de of a worker who killed himself allegedly because of harassment by his supervisor, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled.

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21/05/2025

TOPEKA, Kan. (Legal Newsline) - The Kansas Supreme Court won't let the maker of a gun be sued over the accidental shooting of a teenager, reversing a lower court ruling that had the case headed for trial.

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21/05/2025

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A California federal judge says the State has no right to put acrylamide, a naturally occurring compound in roasted foods and coffee, on its Prop 65 list of potential carcinogens.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A California federal judge says the State has no right to put acrylamide, a naturally occurring compound in roasted foods and coffee, on its Prop 65 list of potential carcinogens.

21/05/2025

Zahid Arab, Uber’s public policy and communications representative, said that SB 1166 will create higher prices for rideshare consumers, along with providing unreasonable requirements that undermine safety. Read more…

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21/05/2025

Greenpeace calls the $660 million verdict a jury delivered against it for orchestrating violent protests at a North Dakota pipeline a threat to “our rights to peaceful protest and free speech.” But one of the biggest threats may be to its status as a tax-exempt public interest group.

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Greenpeace calls the $660 million verdict a jury delivered against it for orchestrating violent protests at a North Dakota pipeline a threat to “our rights to peaceful protest and free speech.” But one of the biggest threats may be to its status as a tax-exempt public interest group.

21/05/2025

HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers who ran with a study produced by a controversial laboratory are asking for $1.2 million from a settlement that gives buyers of a dry shampoo some money back.

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21/05/2025

A 900-acre proposed solar farm in Cherokee County might be the fourth largest in Iowa and provide substantial tax revenues to the rural county residents. But standing in the way is a proposed zoning ordinance that would require a setback minimum of up to 13 times greater than the average setback requirements for solar farms across America. Read more…

A 900-acre proposed solar farm in Cherokee County might be the fourth largest in Iowa and provide substantial tax revenues to the rural county residents. But standing in the way is a proposed zoning ordinance that would require a setback minimum of up to 13 times greater than the average setback req...