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1California Lawsuit Alleges that Sacramento Charity Misused Money

California Lawsuit Alleges that Sacramento Charity Misused Money

Sep 25, 2019

In July, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit against a Sacramento nonprofit called Move America Forward alleging that the organization misled donors and its directors misused charity money for political purposes. According to Move America Forward website, it has sent over 388 tons of packages to troops “directly from American citizens affirming their […]

2Weather Channel App Accused of Tracking Data and Selling it to Third Parties

Weather Channel App Accused of Tracking Data and Selling it to Third Parties

Jan 18, 2019

Some shocking news if you are a user of the Weather Channel app, the app may have been secretly mining your data. Earlier this month, a lawsuit was filed by the city of Los Angeles against the Weather Company, the business behind the app that is owned by IBM, which accuses it of manipulating users […]

3City of Los Angeles Releases Security Costs for Mayor Garcetti’s out of State Travel

City of Los Angeles Releases Security Costs for Mayor Garcetti’s out of State Travel

Dec 5, 2018

Last month, the city of Los Angeles revealed that Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Los Angeles Police Department security detail has cost nearly $450,000 since 2015 as Garcetti visited other parts of the United States and foreign countries. The figures were revealed due to a lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Times, which is seeking to determine […]

4Nestle Allowed to Continue Taking Water from San Bernardino National Forest

Nestle Allowed to Continue Taking Water from San Bernardino National Forest

Jul 27, 2018

Last month, the U.S. Forest Service announced that it has granted Nestle a new three-year permit to continue operating its bottled water pipeline in the San Bernardino National Forest. The agency stated that the permit has been offered to the company “with measures to improve the watershed’s health” along Strawberry Creek. Nestle’s special use permit […]

5California is Refusing to pay $40 million in back wages that it owes to its Judges

California is Refusing to pay $40 million in back wages that it owes to its Judges

May 18, 2018

According to the Sacramento Bee, California state attorneys are going to fight court rulings directing the state to pay about $40 million in back wages and benefits to about 3,000 current and former judges who claim they were shortchanged during the recession. The state must pay 10 percent annual interest on the back wages and […]

6California sues Trump Administration due to Inclusion of Citizenship Question in 2020 Census

California sues Trump Administration due to Inclusion of Citizenship Question in 2020 Census

May 7, 2018

In late March, an eight-page memo was released in which Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the citizenship question would be included in the next census, which takes place in 2020, to better enforce the Voting Rights Act and to prevent racial discrimination in voting. This will be the first time in 70 years that the […]

7Judge Ruled that California County’s Redistricting Diluted Latino Vote

Judge Ruled that California County’s Redistricting Diluted Latino Vote

Apr 12, 2018

In February, a federal judge ruled that election districts for the board of supervisors in a Central California county illegally dilute the voting power of Latinos and deprive them of an opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. The ruling came in a lawsuit against Kern County by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational […]

8Los Angeles County is getting set to build its first new freeway in 25 years

Los Angeles County is getting set to build its first new freeway in 25 years

Apr 2, 2018

The last freeway to be built in the Los Angeles County was the Century Freeway (Interstate 105) in 1993, which officials claimed would more than likely be the last of the great Southern California freeways. It appears that Southern California will get a new freeway because the California Department of Transportation, in cooperation with a […]

9Alleged forced labor in detention by immigrants prompts class action lawsuit

Alleged forced labor in detention by immigrants prompts class action lawsuit

Mar 5, 2018

In late December, a class action lawsuit was filed in San Diego federal court that alleges that immigrants at Otay Mesa Detention Center are paid at most $1.50 per day, and sometimes not paid at all, for their work. The lawsuit further alleges that the facility doesn’t provide all of the basic necessities that detainees […]

10Second Lawsuit filed against Motel 6 for informing Immigration Agents about Latino Guests

Second Lawsuit filed against Motel 6 for informing Immigration Agents about Latino Guests

Feb 19, 2018

Motel 6 is facing another lawsuit, which alleges that it violated the civil rights of Latino immigrants by voluntarily giving the personal information of guests to federal immigration authorities. The lawsuit was filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) on behalf of the guests in federal court in Arizona. The lawsuit […]

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