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LA Repeals Requirements for Contractors to Reveal NRA Ties

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council is repealing a law requiring companies that want city contracts to disclose whether they have ties to the National Rifle Association, weeks after a federal judge blocked the city from enforcing the ordinance. Counc...
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Firm Sues California Over Ban on Private Prisons

SAN DIEGO — A private prison firm that just won multibillion-dollar contracts to run federal immigration detention centers in California sued the state on Monday, claiming that a new ban on for-profit lockups in California is unconstitutional. “There is a l...

What’s in a Name? Attorney Sues Ashjian

The battle over who gets to use a name of a group critical to a Fresno school board president may be headed to the courts. Fresno Watchdogs for Ethical Bidding is an anonymous group publicly represented by M...

Editorial: Insidious AB 1250 Bad for California

It's difficult to imagine worse legislation than Assembly Bill 1250, which pretends to promote transparency and save taxpayer dollars but is really a brazen attempt to add more dues paying members to California...