(Subscription required) This ruling clarifies a critical area of law and reinforces the principle that California courts can consider tribal general welfare payments when determining income available for support regardless of their tax status under federal law.

The Court of Appeal for this district held Friday that a Labor Code section that exempts fleeting employment from the exclusive-remedy provision of the Workers Compensation Act does not apply simply because a worker was injured three days after going to work and did not complete the job he was hired to do.

The reduction is required under the state’s environmental permits for pumping from the fragile Delta, because despite nearly full reservoirs and a robust snowpack, the San Joaquin River watershed had less-than-normal precipitation during the water year which began Oct. 1, said Ryan Endean, a spokesperson for the California Department of Water Resources.

The history of how the U.S. incarcerated more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent — most of them U.S. citizens like Ochi’s parents — during World War II is well-documented in museums and archives. But now civil rights activists and historians feel they are witnessing a flashback to history as President Donald Trump has invoked the same 227-year-old U.S. law that was used to justify incarcerating the Japanese American community during wartime.