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(rights of speech and petition are "not identical"). Interpretation of the Petition Clause must be guided by the objectives and aspirations that underlie the right. A petition conveys the special concerns of its author to the government and, in its usual form, requests action by the government to address those concerns.
"A judge shall accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, the right to be heard according to law" [4] California: Constitution Art 1 § 3 "The people have the right to...petition government for redress of grievances" [1] California: Rules of Civil Procedure Rule Rule 1290
The right to petition government for redress of grievances is the right to make a complaint to, or seek the assistance of, one's government, without fear of punishment or reprisals. The right can be traced back to the Bill of Rights 1689, the Petition of Right (1628), and Magna Carta (1215). [citation needed]
In 1868, the California Legislature authorized the first of many ad hoc Code Commissions to begin the process of codifying California law. Each Code Commission was a one- or two-year temporary agency which either closed at the end of the authorized period or was reauthorized and rolled over into the next period; thus, in some years there was no ...
Finally, in California Motor Transport, the Court added that "the right to petition extends to all departments of the Government [and] [t]he right of access to the courts is indeed but one aspect of the right of petition." Pursuant to this doctrine, immunity extends to attempts to petition all departments of the government.
Second, unlike statutory rights of access under California's Public Records Act and The Ralph M. Brown Act, the Sunshine Amendment applies not just to the executive branch of government but to the judicial and legislative branches as well. While the Amendment expressly reserves existing protections for proceedings and records of the Legislature ...
Here in California, these lies recently drove the Orange County ban on Pride flags on county property, the demonization of a charitable drag queen we honored in the Legislature, and the withdrawal ...
other rights to "due process of law" the right to petition the government (this argument is sometimes raised to allege that signature-gathering requirements, or the rules implementing them, are unfairly restrictive); freedom of the press (which historically included the right to print ballots containing the name of the candidate of one's choosing);