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Las primeras personas en hacer uso de una nueva ley estatal sobre el sellado de antecedentes penales comparecieron ante un juez la semana pasada. Anteriormente, solo las personas cuya condena no resulto en encarcelamiento podían solicitar la eliminación de antecedentes penales. Jay Jordan es director ejecutivo de la organización sin fines...
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The first people to make use of a new state law on sealing criminal records went before a judge last week. Previously, only people whose conviction did not result in incarceration could petition for expungement. Jay Jordan, CEO of the nonprofit Alliance for Safety and Justice, which pushed for...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Medication abortion is still legal in California and across the U.S. A preliminary U.S. Supreme Court order on Friday April 21 preserves the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone until the full merits of the case are heard by the...
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Grace Gedye CalMatters Un fallo judicial reciente que favoreció a las empresas de trabajos temporales, como Uber, Instacart y Lyft, entre otros, puede tener un resquicio de esperanza para los grupos pro-laborales. El lunes pasado, un tribunal de apelaciones de California dictaminó que la Proposición 22, una medida electoral...
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Grace Gedye CalMatters A recent court ruling that favored gig work companies may have a silver lining for pro-labor groups. Last Monday, a California appeals court ruled that Proposition 22 — a 2020 ballot measure that allowed Uber, Lyft, and other platforms to classify their workers as independent contractors...
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The Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments October 31 in a pair of cases which could spell the end of affirmative action on American college campuses. Activist Edward Blum with the group Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, arguing race-conscious admissions criteria unconstitutionally discriminate against...
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The ACLU of Nebraska has joined a national brief filed in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging a 1978 law passed by Congress aiming to stop harmful assimilation practices separating Native American children from their families and tribes. Misty Flowers, executive director of the Nebraska Indian Child Welfare Coalition, said the...
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En un estado que no tiene muchas latinas sentadas en el estrado judicial o discutiendo casos, Patricia Guerrero haría historia como presidenta del tribunal supremo de California. El gobernador Gavin Newsom nominó el miércoles 10 de agosto a Guerrero, de 50 años, como presidente del Tribunal Supremo de California. Ya...
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In a state that doesn’t have many Latinas either sitting on the judicial bench or arguing cases before it, Patricia Guerrero would make history as chief justice on California’s highest court. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday August 10 nominated Guerrero, 50, to be chief justice of the California Supreme...
Las primeras personas en hacer uso de una nueva ley estatal sobre el sellado de antecedentes penales comparecieron ante un juez la semana pasada. Anteriormente, solo las personas cuya condena no resulto en encarcelamiento podían solicitar la eliminación de antecedentes penales. Jay Jordan es director ejecutivo de la organización sin fines...
The first people to make use of a new state law on sealing criminal records went before a judge last week. Previously, only people whose conviction did not result in incarceration could petition for expungement. Jay Jordan, CEO of the nonprofit Alliance for Safety and Justice, which pushed for...
Kristen Hwang CalMatters Medication abortion is still legal in California and across the U.S. A preliminary U.S. Supreme Court order on Friday April 21 preserves the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone until the full merits of the case are heard by the...
Grace Gedye CalMatters Un fallo judicial reciente que favoreció a las empresas de trabajos temporales, como Uber, Instacart y Lyft, entre otros, puede tener un resquicio de esperanza para los grupos pro-laborales. El lunes pasado, un tribunal de apelaciones de California dictaminó que la Proposición 22, una medida electoral...
Grace Gedye CalMatters A recent court ruling that favored gig work companies may have a silver lining for pro-labor groups. Last Monday, a California appeals court ruled that Proposition 22 — a 2020 ballot measure that allowed Uber, Lyft, and other platforms to classify their workers as independent contractors...
The Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments October 31 in a pair of cases which could spell the end of affirmative action on American college campuses. Activist Edward Blum with the group Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, arguing race-conscious admissions criteria unconstitutionally discriminate against...
The ACLU of Nebraska has joined a national brief filed in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging a 1978 law passed by Congress aiming to stop harmful assimilation practices separating Native American children from their families and tribes. Misty Flowers, executive director of the Nebraska Indian Child Welfare Coalition, said the...
En un estado que no tiene muchas latinas sentadas en el estrado judicial o discutiendo casos, Patricia Guerrero haría historia como presidenta del tribunal supremo de California. El gobernador Gavin Newsom nominó el miércoles 10 de agosto a Guerrero, de 50 años, como presidente del Tribunal Supremo de California. Ya...
In a state that doesn’t have many Latinas either sitting on the judicial bench or arguing cases before it, Patricia Guerrero would make history as chief justice on California’s highest court. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday August 10 nominated Guerrero, 50, to be chief justice of the California Supreme...
