• Judge weighs LAUSD co-location policy challenged under Proposition 39

    Daily Journal
    May 21, 2025

    (Subscription required) A Los Angeles judge is reviewing a lawsuit challenging LAUSD's policy on campus co-location, which charter advocates argue violates a state law requiring equal access to school facilities. While safety considerations were upheld, other elements of the policy were tentatively found to conflict with Proposition 39.

  • Home Husband Quitclaimed to Wife Was Community Property

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    May 21, 2025

    Fifth District Court of Appeal Acting Presiding Justice Jennifer R.S. Detjen yesterday expressed strong disapproval of the majority’s affirmance of an order requiring either that proceeds from the sale of a home be divided equally between the parties or that the ex-wife purchase the interest of her former husband, maintaining that title to the real property was vested solely in the woman.

  • Filing Administrative Complaint Devoid of Facts Did Not Exhaust Administrative Remedies—C.A.

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    May 21, 2025

    Summary judgment was properly granted to the City of Los Angeles in an action for unlawful discrimination brought by a fired employee, Div. Four of the Court of Appeal for this district has held, declaring that administrative remedies were not exhausted where a complaint was filed with a state agency in purported compliance with a statutory requisite for suing but specific facts were not set forth.

  • Ban on Teaching Critical Race Theory Must Be Blocked

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    May 21, 2025

    A judge erred in declining to issue a preliminary injunction barring a school district in Riverside County from enforcing a resolution by its governing board virtually banning the teaching of a theory that racism is embedded in the U.S. in its laws, as well as in policies of its institutions, Div. Two of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has held, declaring that the measure is void for vagueness.

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