Regulations enacted each year by California’s more than 200 regulatory agencies may be reviewed by the judicial branch of state government to determine whether the regulation complies with the state’s Administrative Procedure Act (APA). When the judiciary reviews these regulations, what do state judges consider? First, the judiciary independently reviewsRead More →
David Davis’ recent article (Be Warned: This Government Is Denying Your Right to Challenge the State, October 25) calls the government’s proposed reforms to judicial review “a clear attempt to avoid accountability”. Although the specific changes to clauses 1 and 2 of the current bill are in fact relatively limitedRead More →
OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta continued today, ahead of oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 1, to support challenges to Senate Bill 8 (SB 8) – the ban patently unconstitutional of abortion in Texas. The Attorney General joined 24 attorneys general in filing an amicusRead More →
Rural groups have hailed the High Court’s rejection of Wild Justice’s judicial review of Defra’s most recent searing legislation in England. The judicial review had sought to disrupt the Heather and Grass Burning (England) Regulations 2021. The rules prohibit the burning of heather on the most protected sites in theRead More →
The High Court allowed a serving prisoner to lodge a judicial appeal to check whether the Legal Aid Commission was correct in refusing to represent him in a case before the Supreme Court. Peni Tuilaselase, a convicted prisoner currently being held at the Maximum Penitentiary Center, had wanted to appealRead More →