Students sue Jurupa school over transgender volleyball player | Riverside jury convicts fentanyl dealer of murder, previous fentanyl murder conviction appealed to California Supreme Court | Jury gives $5 million for fatal Menifee crash caused by bad tire
It’s Sept. 21. I came down with a sickness on Saturday, when I was planning on doing most of my writing. As a result, there are some events I did not have the time to write up. Publication of them will have to be delayed until next week. One of those articles was the American Board of Trial Advocates’ recreation of a Los Angeles school desegregation case. You can watch the recreation here.
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Two student members of the Jurupa Valley High School volleyball team and their mothers filed a suit against the participation of a transgender athlete on the team on Sept. 9.
The complaint is the second filed by Temecula attorneys Robert Hyler and Fleischer against the inclusion of transgender athletes in Riverside County schools. Their first suit was filed on Nov. 20, over the participation of a transgender student at Martin Luther King High School. Attorneys for the school district filed a motion to dismiss the complaint for failing to state injury to the plaintiffs on Feb. 28. California Central District Judge Sunshine Sykes is considering the motion.
Quinn Aaron McKellips was convicted Sept. 17 of second-degree murder for the fentanyl-caused death of Calin Sender. On the same date, a Riverside defendant convicted of murder for sharing fentanyl appealed his conviction to the California Supreme court.
The murder conviction is the county’s second for providing fentanyl that caused an overdose. The Riverside DA’s office, like many throughout the state, have been working to set precedent that the sharing or selling of fentanyl can be grounds for second-degree murder charges.
“Our client was not given a choice. He was just headed to work, talking with his son, having his morning coffee,” plaintiff's attorney Molly McKibben said.
“The argument is that he should not have been taken to the jail in the first place. He should have gotten the medical care that he deserved while he was in the emergency room,” said Dan Bolton of Rancho Mirage’s Walter Clark Legal Group, the family’s lawyer.
“What I am doing now with this lawsuit is uncomfortable, but it is necessary. But if this truth, not just my truth but the truth, can give others a voice, it will be worth it. The truth is, I saw things done and heard things said that are inappropriate, abusive and even illegal. The truth is I tried to protect all my colleagues, and especially female colleagues, but that made me the punching bag for verbal abuse, isolation and retaliation,” Pang said at a Sept. 9 press conference.
Mihai-Constantin Petcu, Marian Barbu and Cristian Aeroeiai each allege that former Harvest pastor Paul Havsgaard abused them in the 2000s. They allege the abuse occurred in Bucharest, Romania, where Harvest started a foster home system with Havsgaard in charge.
Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed a set of bills meant to check the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown in California, including a first-in-the nation measure to prohibit officers from wearing masks and others that limit their access to schools and hospitals.
Wayne Unger is associate professor of law at Quinnipiac University.
If the FCC had indeed moved to strip ABC affiliates of their licenses to broadcast because of what Kimmel said, ABC and its parent company, Disney, could have sued the FCC to block the license revocations on First Amendment grounds, citing the NRA v. Vullo case.
But the network seemingly caved to the coercive threat instead of fighting for Kimmel. This is why so many are decrying the Kimmel suspension as an attack on free speech and the First Amendment – even though they might not fully understand the law they’re citing.
Brian Downing, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Mississippi
What if ChatGPT, informed by the very same online suicide materials, gives you suicide advice in a chatbot conversation? I’m a technology law scholar and a former lawyer and engineering director at Google, and I see AI chatbots shifting Big Tech’s position in the legal landscape. Families of suicide victims are testing out chatbot liability arguments in court right now, with some early successes.
This week, our nation witnessed a horrific display of political violence that has left many reeling — and it came just three months after the tragic shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses. Left, right, center, or otherwise, we must all agree that no life should be ended because of their political views.