California is burning at a record high rate and has seen unprecedented damage due to the increase of the severity of fires as well as the increase in the duration of fire season. However, many […]
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Los Angeles’s Social Equity Cannabis Applicants are Getting Left in the Weeds
The passage of California Proposition 64 (Prop 64) opened the door for cities to grant licenses to businesses for the purpose of selling cannabis and to legalize personal recreational use within their own jurisdiction. The […]
read moreExecutive Order No. 13925: An Attempted Stop Sign on Our Global Cyber-Freeway
The year 2020 has brought times of physical isolation and the world has turned to the Internet as a bridge to normalcy. It is not uncommon for a person to wake up and grab his […]
read moreThe Gig Economy’s Battleground – California Proposition 22
This November, California voters will have the chance to voice their opinion in the ongoing battle between app-based tech companies and the state of California. These companies want to continue classifying their drivers as independent […]
read moreHIV is Not a Crime, There Should Be No Jail Time
Introduction By way of personal, activist narrative, this blog post will provide broad context to the post-Stonewall legal landscape and the gay rights (now, the LGBTQ+) movement. The stage set, the writer will inform the […]
read moreChildren In Foster Care: The Odds Are Against Them
Most child welfare reports that lead to removal of children from their homes are filed for neglect rather than abuse. Often, their parents want to take care of them, but are failing for one reason, […]
read moreA Narrowly-Tailored, Technical Disenfranchisement: Risking Death to Vote Amidst a Viral Pandemic
In what has been referred to as a tragedy for American democracy and one of the most egregious examples of voter suppression in history, a United States Supreme Court ruling on April 6th made it […]
read moreLaw in the Time of COVID-19: Legal Considerations Amidst a Growing Crisis
There is no doubt that the global pandemic of “coronavirus disease 2019” (“COVID-19”) has drastically taken over numerous aspects of our society. With hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases worldwide and counting, most of which […]
read moreThe Bill That Disrupted the Gig Economy: AB-5 and Uber’s Troubling Response
Taken effect on January 1st, California’s Assembly Bill 5 (“AB-5”) has created a great deal of controversy. Supporters of the law praise it for its attack on inequality in the workplace, while gig-based companies, like […]
read moreThe Submerged Metaphoricality of Legal Language
We may have three principal objects in the study of truth: one to discover it when it is sought; another to demonstrate it when it is possessed; and a third, to discriminate it from the […]
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