Conservative Andy Pugno is running against Beth Gaines. Their stands are similar, but Pugno says a Bay Area billionaire is trying to buy the election for her.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pugno-20120531,0,7121324.story
Legislators also move forward bills restricting their acceptance of certain gifts from special interests and regulating the medical marijuana industry.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-legislature-20120601,0,7241128.story
An appeals court ruled Thursday that the heart of a law that denies a host of federal benefits to gay married couples is unconstitutional.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/la-naw-doma-053112,0,7656927.story
The 80-20 National Asian American Educational Foundation and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights have filed an amicus brief Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the plaintiff in the Fisher v. University of Texas affirmative action case. The case is likely to result in a definitive ruling on the legality
Twenty-two current and former federal civil-rights officials have joined in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the race-conscious admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin, arguing that it oversteps not only the Education Department’s guidelines but also legal advice given to colleges by higher-education groups.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher
Young illegal immigrants, saying President Obama has done little to diminish the threat of deportations they face despite repeated promises, have started a campaign to press him to use executive powers to allow them to remain legally in the country.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/us/students-press-for-action-on-immigration.html?ref=education
BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court Thursday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married gay couples, a ruling all but certain to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/05/31/us/ap-us-gay-marriage-federal-benefits.html?_r=1&hp
‘Oaxaquita’ (little Oaxacan) is used by other Mexicans to demean their indigenous compatriots — who are estimated to make up 30% of California’s farmworkers.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-indigenous-derogatory-20120528,0,3018233.story
A national federation of more than 200 Indian-American groups has joined two other prominent Indian organizations in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to end race-conscious college admissions in a case involving the University of Texas at Austin.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Indian-American-Groups-Urge/132037/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
A video clip of Orange County Human Relations youth organizer Christian Lopez delivers a speech at the organizations 41st anniversary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkjAGctHuPo