Early Returns with Jan Baran Podcast: There's a New Chair in Town – Dara Lindenbaum and the FEC Agenda Looking Towards 2024
Notable Supreme Court Decisions - In 2023, the Mexican Supreme Court addressed several high-profile decisions asserting the limits between public branches and entities to preserve the constitutional order and to protect...more
In Part Four of the New Law Guidance series from Best Best & Krieger LLP (BBK), we cover important new legislation for 2024 related to election law, density bonus law, parking, labor law, microenterprises, cannabis and...more
This episode marks the start of the second season of Early Returns. We have been privileged to interview interesting guests and welcome a large and growing audience of listeners. We have discussed laws about foreign election...more
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has blocked several of the provisions of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new election rule. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson court held that those aspects...more
On May 19, 2020, federal District Court Judge Fred Biery from the Western District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction that allows all registered voters, regardless of age, disability, or presence, to apply for mail-in...more
If a referendum petition includes the full text of the subject land use measure, documents referenced in such measure need not be attached to the petition unless they are attached to the measure or expressly incorporated into...more
Yesterday, the California Supreme Court issued its opinion in Patterson v. Padilla, Case No. S257302 (Nov. 21, 2019). At issue was "whether portions of the recently enacted Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act...more
With midterm elections fast approaching and ongoing reports of Russian hacking into our nation’s voting systems, MoFo pro bono attorneys Catherine Chapple, Robert Manoso, Jane Bentrott, John P. Carlin and David Cross are...more
California Appellate Court Addresses Prohibition in Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ordinance Referendum Opinion - In County of Kern v. T.C.E.F., Inc., et al., a California Court of Appeal determined that, upon receipt of a...more
In the early morning hours of September 30, 2015, the House and Senate gave final sign off on the Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 721, Adjournment Resolution. The resolution ended the “long” session, which began in January of...more
Legislators are back in Raleigh after a week off and it doesn’t look like anything has changed after the extra time they were given to reflect on the session. Just as we’ve seen before: - There’s a new bill that would...more
California law allows public agencies to expend public money and resources to educate voters on matters included on an upcoming election ballot. State law does not permit using public money or resources to advocate on behalf...more
With primary elections around the corner, employers are wondering what their obligations are with respect to providing employees time off to vote. Although there is no federal law that requires employers to give employees...more
A lot of employers are surprised when I tell them that they have to give employees time off to vote if the employee requests it. Indeed, California law provides that, not less than 10 days before every statewide election,...more