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We Love LA - Except For The Whole Death Penalty Part

It’s hard to beat a town like LA – between the glam and the grunge, beaches and deserts, if it exists on earth you can probably find it in LA (or at least a good knock off).

January 6, 2011

Immigrants Win Right to Representation

In a major decision, a U.S. district court has ruled that federal officials must provide representation for two men with severe mental disabilities while they fight their deportation cases.

December 23, 2010

Tehachapi Unified School District Knew About, Yet Ignored, Bullying of Seth Walsh

SAN FRANCISCO — Today, the California affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union partnered with Wendy Walsh, mother of 13 year-old Seth Walsh who recently took his own life after enduring years of anti-gay harassment at school, to send an important message to schools about anti-gay bull

December 16, 2010

AG letter of advice re Student Assistance Organization Business Grants

Sandra Benson Brantley, Counsel to the General Assembly, Office of the Attorney General:

December 14, 2010

Pay to Learn: Why We Took On - And Won - The School Fees Fight

Sometimes, the wrong thing is going on in broad daylight, but you don't notice it, really, because that's just the way things have always been.

December 10, 2010

"We can’t feed the people of this state, but by gum we can kill them."

In the latest episode in one of the more bizarre story arcs of America’s death penalty, on Monday the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation revealed (under court order) that the source of their mysterious supply of lethal injection drugs was Archimedes Pharma, the same British f

December 9, 2010