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The act provides immunity to the State of California and its related entities from being sued. The law immunizes public employees from liability for “instituting or prosecuting any judicial or administrative proceeding” within the scope of their employment, “even if” the employees act “maliciously and without probable cause.” (Cal. Gov. Code, § 821.6)
The FAIR Education Act is a California law which was signed into law on July 14, 2011. The law compels the inclusion of the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people into educational textbooks and the social studies curricula in California public schools by ...
In California schools, teachers do and must say the word "gay" as well as lesbian and transgender in lessons about nonconforming expressions of gender. Why California law requires teaching about ...
In most common law jurisdictions, there was no common law right to recover civil damages for the wrongful death of a person. [3] Under common law, a dead person cannot bring a suit (under the maxim actio personalis moritur cum persona), and this created an anomaly in which activities that resulted in a person's injury would result in civil sanction, but activities that resulted in a person's ...
A California bill spurred by the death of Katie Meyer, who died by suicide when she was a women's soccer goalie at Stanford in February 2022, has become state law.. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced ...
A lawsuit under the Bane Act is a civil claim against someone who has attempted or managed to interfere with someone's civil rights (as guaranteed by state and federal law in the United States) through any act or acts of coercion, violence, threats of violence, or intimidation, including victims of hate crime violence.
Non-economic damages are "(1) wrongful death; (2) permanent and substantial physical deformity, loss of use of a limb or loss of a bodily organ system; or (3) permanent physical or mental functional injury that permanently prevents the injured person from being able to independently care for himself or herself and perform life sustaining ...
Six other states have no cap on medical malpractice damages under some circumstances. [4] Florida joined that list in 2014 when the Florida Supreme Court struck down its cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases involving wrongful death. [5] California law does not include any provision to adjust the cap for inflation, so it has ...