Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) led 80 of their congressional colleagues to file an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs in two landmark cases currently before the Supreme Court of the United States. The consolidated cases, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v President & Fellows …continue reading
House Natural Resources Committee (HNRC) Energy and Mineral Resources subcommittee Chair, Alan Lowenthal (CA-47); Full HNRC Chair, Raúl Grijalva (AZ-03); and HNRC Water, Oceans, and Wildlife subcommittee Chair, Jared Huffman (CA-02), have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia calling on the court …continue reading
Independent Women’s Law Center (IWLC) recently filed an Amicus brief in support of DoorDash in California Superior Court. In People of the State of California vs. DoorDash, the San Francisco District Attorney seeks an injunction forcing the company to change the classification of its delivery drivers (“Dashers”) from independent contractors …continue reading
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting New York and other states in their victorious lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The federal government is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a U.S. District …continue reading
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that the State of California, along with Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, is leading a coalition of 22 Attorneys General in an amicus brief in Ramos v. Nielsen before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The brief supports the plaintiffs’ …continue reading
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra led a bipartisan coalition of 21 states in filing an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to defend the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in Brakeen v. Zinke. ICWA is a 40-year-old federal law that furthers the best interests of Native American …continue reading