Legislature
Posted on 04/29/2013 @ 04:00 PM
Tags: Legal Climate, Legislature, Legal Reform
There have been some mixed messages this month about the prospects for reforming the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) - a source of many frivolous lawsuits filed against development projects - during this year's legislative session.
Posted on 01/22/2013 @ 03:00 PM
Tags: Legislature, Legal Climate, Legal Reform
Our third annual Day at the Capitol will be on Wednesday, March 13th this year! CJAC and the California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse are teaming up again to bring legal reform advocates from across the state to the Capitol.
By Todd Roberson on 12/03/2012 @ 03:00 PM
Tags: Legislature
In our previous election wrap-up we noted there were over three million uncounted absentee and provisional ballots statewide. Sure enough, those ballots ended up playing a pivotal role in a couple state legislative races and the election turned out even better for Democrats than initially thought.
By Todd Roberson on 11/09/2012 @ 12:00 PM
Tags: Legislature, Legal Climate, Legal Reform
With election day behind us, here is an update on where we stand with ballot measures and state legislative races. While it is important to note that over three million ballots statewide have not yet been processed, many important contests have been decided.
By Todd Roberson on 10/01/2012 @ 01:00 PM
Tags: Legislature, Americans with Disabilities Act, Legal Climate
Governor Jerry Brown had until midnight last night to sign or veto all the bills remaining on his desk, and we are happy to report that the results were great for CJAC.
By Todd Roberson on 09/28/2012 @ 11:48 AM
Tags: Legislature
CJAC has selected this year's recipients of our Civil Justice Leadership Awards and we are proud to announce the following five legislators as award recipients.
By Todd Roberson on 09/04/2012 @ 01:00 PM
Tags: Legislature
We are excited to report that two CJAC-supported bills (a substantive ADA litigation reform bill - SB 1186 - and a CJAC-sponsored bill targeting vexatious litigants - AB 2274), are on the Governor's desk awaiting his signature!
By Todd Roberson on 08/08/2012 @ 01:00 PM
Tags: Legislature
On Monday the Legislature reconvened to finish the work of the 2011-12 session. Lawmakers will be considering hundreds of bills prior to the August 31st deadline, and here are a few of the hot issues that CJAC will be focused on over the next few weeks...
By Todd Roberson on 05/08/2012 @ 06:00 PM
Tags: Legislature
There was a lot of action in both the Assembly Judiciary Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee hearings today, which included lengthy discussion of ADA lawsuits and how to stop those who are exploiting the law for financial gain.
By Todd Roberson on 04/27/2012 @ 05:00 PM
Tags: Legislature, Legal Reform
This past Tuesday we held our 2nd annual "Day at the Capitol" with the California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse. Thanks to months of preparation by CJAC and CALA staff we had great turnout and excellent programs!
By Todd Roberson on 02/27/2012 @ 02:00 PM
Tags: Legislature, Plaintiffs' Lawyers
As expected, a plaintiffs' lawyer-backed bill to undo last year's California Supreme Court ruling in Howell v. Hamilton Meats has been introduced by Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento).
By Todd Roberson on 12/13/2011 @ 10:48 PM
Tags: Legislature
Last week CJAC held its final two Civil Justice Leadership Award luncheons after presenting our first two awards the week prior. On Wednesday, December 7th, we headed to Tustin in Orange County to present an award to Assemblymember Don Wagner (R-Irvine), who represents the 70th Assembly District. As mentioned previously, Wagner received the award for being a consistent, strong voice for civil justice reform as Vice-Chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, which hears hundreds of bills each year that impact the civil justice system.
By Todd Roberson on 12/01/2011 @ 10:48 PM
Tags: Legislature
This week CJAC held its first two luncheons to present our 2011 Civil Justice Leadership Awards. On Tuesday we presented an award to Senator Lou Correa in Anaheim with over 30 guests in attendance (Correa is pictured here with CJAC Legislative Director Katherine Pettibone on the left and President Kim Stone on the right.) IMG_5642.JPGHe received the award for being a strong ally against legislation that would increase unwarranted lawsuits and for authoring SB 883, which unfortunately did not pass but would have established immunity for employers who rely in good faith on the rules of the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement.
By Todd Roberson on 11/03/2011 @ 11:48 PM
Tags: Legislature
We are excited to announce that we have selected the recipients of our 2011 Civil Justice Leadership Awards. We are extremely appreciative of these legislators' efforts to reduce excessive litigation in California and will be giving them their awards at luncheons in each of their districts. The dates are below and if you or someone from your organization would like to attend please contact Marie Ortega at 916-443-4900 or mortega@cjac.org for more information.
By Todd Roberson on 10/11/2011 @ 11:48 PM
Tags: Legal Climate, Legislature, Plaintiffs' Lawyers
Governor Jerry Brown had until the end of Sunday to sign or veto bills introduced this year in the Legislature, and so we've now come to the end of the first year of the two-year legislative cycle. With a new Democratic Administration at the helm going into 2011, there was great uncertainty over what this Legislature and Governor would do after six years of a Republican Administration.
By Todd Roberson on 09/21/2011 @ 11:48 PM
Tags: Legislature
We are pleased to announce that Assembly Bill 1074, authored by Felipe Fuentes (D-Los Angeles), was signed into law today by Governor Brown. CJAC has supported the bill since its introduction this year, as it would provide non-traditional communication providers the same civil liability protection given to traditional telephone companies in providing 9-1-1 support services. Current law protects phone companies from ordinary negligence claims when providing service for 9-1-1 calls originating from landlines, but 9-1-1 calls made through the Internet or digital technology do not have the same civil liability protections.
By Todd Roberson on 09/12/2011 @ 11:48 PM
Tags: Legal Climate, Legislature
The California Legislature wrapped up its 2011 session in the very early hours of Saturday morning. Supporters of civil justice reform will be pleased to know that CJAC had a great deal of success this year.
By Kim Stone on 09/01/2011 @ 11:48 PM
Tags: Legal Climate, Legislature, Plaintiffs' Lawyers
Yesterday Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) announced that he would not be moving forward with Assembly Bill 52 this year due to a lack of support in the State Senate. We are extremely pleased that legislators have recognized the major flaws of this proposal.
By Todd Roberson on 07/28/2011 @ 11:48 PM
Tags: Legislature, Legal Climate
Check out the column by Jon Entine of George Mason University that ran on the Huffington Post earlier this month that explains how proposals to essentially ban the plastic additive bisphenol A (BPA) are at odds with the science on the issue.
By Todd Roberson on 07/27/2011 @ 11:48 PM
Tags: Legislature, Legal Climate
The Sacramento Bee reported this week that the California Environmental Protection Agency will move forward with the installation of additional automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at its headquarters in Sacramento after an employee suffered cardiac arrest last week and a union grievance was filed.
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