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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Last month, California filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration regarding the repeal of a rule regulating hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, on publicly owned lands under Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra stated, The risks of fracking to our health and our environment are real. President Trump and Interior Secretary Zinke didn’t […]