Criminal Law

• Traffic Violations
  Terrified both of being with Ike and of being without him, she credited her emerging Buddhist faith in the mid-1970s with giving her a sense of strength and self-worth and she finally left in early July, 1976. The Ike and Tina Turner Revue was scheduled to open a tour marking the country’s bicentennial when Tina snuck out of their Dallas hotel room, with just a Mobil credit card and 36 cents, while Ike slept. She hurried across a nearby highway, narrowly avoiding a speeding truck, and found another hotel to stay.
• Sex Crimes
  Under the provisions of SB 14, if a defendant is charged with a “violent sex crime, “plea bargaining is prohibited unless there is insufficient evidence to prove the people’s case, or testimony of a material witness cannot be obtained.”
• Assault
• Murder
  By Steve Karnowski and Aaron Morrison MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, and the fervent protests...
• Manslaughter

Employment Law

• Employment Discrimination
  On May 4, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a joint investigation into allegations of employment discrimination and a hostile work environment at the National Football League (NFL).
• Sexual Harassment
  The 27-page report stated that the five highest statewide categories of complaints in 2020 were Race, Retaliation, Disability, Sexual Harassment, and Sex/Gender.

Property Law

• Eminent Domain
  At the previous meeting held in Sacramento March 4 and 5, several Black California families – legal heirs to land grabbed illegally or extralegally by the state through eminent domain – shared stories or how their families were forcefully removed from property they owned without compensation.
• Property Damage
  The new law modernizes the Access to Domestic Violence Reports Act of 1999 to make it easier for domestic violence survivors to access the evidence they need to try to obtain court-ordered legal protections. SB 290 eliminates the fees for digital records, including 911 recordings and photographs of injuries, property damage, or other abuse, that have been passed along to crime victims since 1999.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Maxim Elramsisy | California Black Media Civil Rights and personal Injury attorneys Benjamin Crump and Carl Douglas announced a $100 million lawsuit...