Lawyers

• California Governor and State Agencies Face Lawsuit in Aliso Canyon Gas Leak

  Hundreds of residents in Los Angeles have filed claims against governors and state agencies, seeking 3.5 million in damages for gas blowout. While more than 3,000 claims are waiting to be filed.

• SoCalGas pleads not guilty in Porter Ranch gas leak case

  SoCal Gas Co. has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges related to a natural gas leak began in Oct. The complaint said the company failed to report the gas leak to the officials.

• Marijuana Bill being fixed by California Lawmakers after mistakes regarding medical regulations

  California Lawmakers just drafted a new assembly bill which will battle some serious concerns regarding the state's new marijuana regulation law.

• New data privacy legislation limits use of student data in California

  A new student privacy legislation was signed into law and effective January 1, 2016. The said law is promoting security for students' personal data from companies. Moreover, this law shall protect the usage of these personal students' information used in advertising and for profit.

• California to ban 'Redskins' for school sports, keep Confederate building names

  California will ban public schools from naming their sports teams "Redskins," a name seen as a slur against Native Americans, but will not stop municipalities from naming parks and buildings for Confederate heroes, Governor Jerry Brown said on Sunday.

• California governor signs bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide

  Physician-assisted suicide will become legal in California under a bill signed into law on Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, despite intense opposition from some religious and disability rights groups.

• Assisted-suicide bill approved by California Assembly

  A hard-fought measure to legalize physician-assisted suicide in California cleared the state Assembly on Wednesday despite opposition from religious groups and advocates for the disabled, and moved to the state Senate, where it was widely expected to gain final passage.

• California assisted suicide bill advances in special session

  A controversial bill to allow physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in California passed a key legislative committee on Tuesday, after failing in the legislature earlier this summer amid opposition from the Catholic Church.

• In drought-stricken California, cities push back against steep water cuts

  Cities set to feel the brunt of California's mandated cutbacks in water use pushed back on Wednesday, calling a plan by regulators to demand reductions of as much as 35 percent in some communities unfair.

• California governor blocks parole of ex-Mexican Mafia prison gang leader

  California Governor Jerry Brown blocked parole for a former leader of the Mexican Mafia prison gang who went on to become an informant for police, his office said on Friday.

• U.S. judge puts Arizona's 'revenge porn' bill on hold

  A U.S. judge on Wednesday put on hold enforcement of Arizona's "revenge porn" law that made it a felony to post online nude images of others without their consent, after a rights group said the measure was too broad and state attorneys agreed it should be revisited.

• California governor signs inmate sterilization ban

  California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that bans prisons from sterilizing inmates without their consent, his office said on Thursday, after media reports and a later audit showed officials failed to obtain consent from dozens of incarcerated women.

• California governor signs ridesharing insurance legislation

  California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Wednesday new insurance requirements on ridesharing companies, but the regulations come at a far lower costs to the industry than previously written into the bill, officials said.

• California passes plastic bag ban, would be first such law in U.S

  The California state legislature enacted a ban on plastic grocery bags on Friday near the end of its two-year session, a measure that if signed into law would become the first of its kind in America.