Lawsuit Challenges Bank’s Policies for DACA Recipients
A Latino civil rights group is expanding a lawsuit filed by DACA recipients challenging a national bank’s lending policies to a federal class action, according to documents filed in federal…
‘They Should Be Getting Paid More…Not Less’
A lawsuit was filed on Nov. 30 by the United Farm Workers and UFW Foundation in U.S. District Court in Fresno, CA over the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) move…
L.A. County Targets Rising Hate Crimes
by Mark Hedin Los Angeles city and county officials, educators, health care providers and community-based organizations are teaming up to provide resources against hate crimes, a problem worsened…
Medicare Open Enrollment Is Complicated. Here’s How to Get Good Advice.
By Bernard J. Wolfson If you’ve been watching TV lately, you may have seen actor Danny Glover or Joe Namath, the 77-year-old NFL legend, urging you to call an…
Justices Bound to See ACA as ‘Indispensable,’
By Samantha Young While the U.S. Supreme Court hears a case that could decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act, California will be leading the defense to uphold…
COVID Crackdowns at Work Have Saved Black and Latino Lives, LA Officials Say
By Anna Almendrala Los Angeles County officials attribute a dramatic decline in COVID-19 death and case rates among Blacks and Latinos over the past two months to aggressive…
California Cities Dominate List of Nation’s Most Polluted Regions
The American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2017 report found California has the dubious distinction of being home to the majority of the Top 10 cities with ozone and…
California Could Soon Disentangle Itself from Trump’s Mass Deportations
Last month in Mendota, California, Esperanza, a mother of two young children, was driving to church when local police pulled her over for having tinted windows. The officer issued Esperanza…
A Resounding Victory Over Crude-by-Rail in California
On March 15, residents of San Luis Obispo County and thousands of other California citizens hailed yet another victory against Big Oil when the County’s Board of Supervisors voted to…
Not Only the ‘Good’ Should Get a Legal Defense
Imagine being ripped from your home or workplace, arrested, thrown in jail and charged under laws so complex they’ve been compared to the tax code. And you have to face…