What started as a largely uncontroversial emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has now become subject of intense legal and policy battles.
The Golden State has the highest gas tax in the nation, and one of its worst-performing highway systems.
The Institute for Justice fights for the right to receive paid training as a farrier without a high school diploma or equivalent.
Both companies need to join IBM and others in entirely abandoning the development of this mass surveillance technology.
The state boasts of blocking 754 illegal purchases, but it wrongly tagged 101,047 law-abiding people as prohibited. Any of them could have been targeted.
The phased reopenings happening around the country are becoming increasingly arbitrary.
There’s a lot of work to be done to prevent future George Floyds. Here are some baby steps.
It's great that Gov. Gavin Newsom is finally looking at costs and benefits. But don't kid yourself. None of it has anything to do with "science."
They’re still not being treated the same as secular places of gathering, so a legal challenge continues.
The California state legislature has done everything in its power to legalize accessory dwelling units. A new lawsuit probes whether it's done enough.
Allowing schools and malls to reopen, but not places of worship, would raise civil rights issues
The Delano Police Department cleared its officers of wrongdoing.
Staying inside forever and going back to normal today aren't the only choices.
The LAPD released body camera footage of Frank Hernandez's use-of-force incident.
Making businesses close early will not stop the spread of COVID-19.
Officer Frank A. Hernandez, who beat a suspect while his hands were behind his back, once shot an innocent bystander in the leg.
In a nation of edicts, we serve at the pleasure of the king.
A lawsuit filed yesterday by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra accuses the companies of misclassifying their drivers as independent contractors.
Some officials want to reevaluate enforcement of low-level, nonviolent offenses during the pandemic. For others, it's business as usual.
The state has already appealed the decision to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The preliminary results imply an infection fatality rate of 0.2 percent, similar to estimates from two California studies.
California and New York coronavirus infection rate estimates differ substantially.
The coronavirus shutdown might alter buying patterns, as more people flee tightly packed cities for suburban, exurban, and rural areas.
Are the California numbers wildly off, or is New York different in important ways?
Plus: U.S. death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 45,000, Trump threatens Iran via Twitter, and more....
Evidence that the virus is much less deadly than people feared weakens the case for maintaining lockdowns.
The tests indicate that the number of infections in the county is around 40 times as high as the number of confirmed cases.
Possible really good news from a population screening antibody test study in Santa Clara County, California
No, they’re not frontline ventilators. Yes, they’re useful.
And they are taking full advantage of the opportunity
Yes, tenants are losing their jobs because of the COVID-19 shutdown, but forcing businesses to provide services for free would have a ripple effect.
New emergency rules attempt to slow down justice system to keep people apart.
Not every apparent violation of a quarantine order is a risk to other people, and not all need to be (or can be) enforced equally.
Most serious approaches to the crisis, however, are decidedly libertarian. They involve reducing regulations that keep industries from responding rapidly in an emergency situation.
Government-mandated unemployment is "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to "sit on the couch and watch TV," says the wealthy star of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
First, they didn't have grocery permits. Now they are not allowed to take any walk-ins.
Politicians and the public are alarmingly willing to violate civil liberties in the name of fighting the epidemic.
"You cannot just decide you want to sell groceries," said Barbara Ferrer, the director of L.A. County Public Health.
The county's ban on firearm sales is inconsistent with a new federal advisory as well as the Second Amendment.
The mandates would be retroactive, potentially punishing businesses for violating rules they did not even know existed.
New York's governor insists his edict "mandating that 100% of the workforce must stay home" is "not a shelter-in-place order."
The spread of COVID-19 is making once unthinkably extreme policies seem like the least bad option.
Overcrowded jails are ill-prepared for a coronavirus outbreak.
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