Affirmative action, an active effort to provide access to educational and employment opportunities to historically underrepresented groups, is now in danger of being eradicated by the Supreme Court. While the Court upheld affirmative action in […]
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The Role of Vaccination Decision Making in Coparenting in the Post Covid-19 World
The Coparenting Vaccine Debate The practice of coparenting has long been fraught with difficulties and disagreements. The Covid-19 pandemic has compounded these difficulties. With the increased politization that surrounded the pandemic, vaccination became a particularly […]
Putin’s Arrest Warrant: The What and the Why of “Unlawful Deportation of Children”
Earlier this year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation. The charge: unlawful deportation of children, a war crime. While there have been many calls […]
California Restaurant Workers Seeking Justice at the Workplace
According to a finding by the Economic Policy Institute, about $2 billion in wages are stolen from workers in California every year. A report by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) found that over 1 […]
Cyberbullying Prevention Poses Thorny First Amendment Questions
A new playground for children has digitally emerged. Unfortunately, like most playgrounds, social media is a magnet for bullying. The pain inflicted by such harassment, however, doesn’t belong in an innocent playground. In some cases, […]
San Jose Says No to Minimum Parking Requirements
In December 2022, San Jose became the largest city in the United States to end the minimum parking space requirement for new developments. The City Council unanimously voted to remove the minimum parking requirement across […]
The Supreme Court Rolls Back the Clock for Juvenile Justice
For decades, the Supreme Court has protected juveniles from harsh punishments, such as mandatory life without parole (LWOP), by acknowledging that children are different and must be sentenced accordingly. The developmental differences in children make […]
SLAPP The Gravamen Test! Callanan v. Grizzly Designs, LLC
Introduction California’s anti-SLAPP law has been misused and weaponized against the very class of litigants that it was meant to protect in the first place, namely, individual workers. The traditional justification for anti-SLAPP law is […]
Here’s why you should care about the California Healthy Youth Act in Post-Roe America
California’s implementation of AB 329 is an opportunity to lead More than six years after its passage, the California Healthy Youth Act continues to face challenges to its implementation. The significance of this legislation reaches […]
PAGA in the Wake of U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana
Despite historical judicial hostility to arbitration agreements, Congress has enunciated a national policy of enforcing arbitration agreements in Section 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), which provides that arbitration agreements “shall be valid, irrevocable, […]
Temporary Protected Status for Ukraine – how are countries selected for TPS and who qualifies?
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Ukraine has been designated for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months from April 19, 2022 to October 17, 2023. Eligible Ukrainian nationals who receive […]
Does CEQA Need a Rewrite or Just a Better Public Relations Manager?
I’ve recently been tempted to blame my existential climate-change-induced dread on a 50-year-old environmental law that may be exacerbating California’s contributions to the climate crisis. The impacts of climate change are here and will only grow more […]