Alex Fisch

Weisenthal Thought

NEW MA BLOG POST! Get to know 27 points of interest along Sunday's 7-mile #CicLAvia Quinceañera Celebration in the 💙of Los Angeles! It's the Militant's latest #EpicCicLAviaTour post!

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#BikeLA #DTLA #Westlake #PicoUnion #Chinatown #BoyleHeights

As someone with a lot of business litigation experience, I am very confident that increasing use of AI for basic legal tasks is going to generate nearly limitless high-rate work for lawyers for years to come.

This, along with “fulsome” and “peruse,” is “literally” me.

15 years ago #OTD, on 10/10/2010, #CicLAvia
premiered on the (open) streets of Los Angeles, engaging us to experience their city in a new way. The inaugural 7.5 mi route ran btwn #BoyleHeights & #EastHollywood via #DTLA.

You're invited to CicLAvia's Quinceañera this Sunday!

Lots of big housing legislative news in California today, but these two bills—laws, actually!—are near and dear to me.

Everyone deserves a safe and dignified place to call home.

If you believe your rights as a tenant have been violated, please send us your stories.

At CA DOJ, we’ll continue to fight to protect tenants.

22,000+ Rental housing units in CA are owned and managed by the Nijar family’s companies.

Report Potential Violations Current of former tenants of PAMA or any of its related companies: CA DOJ wants to hear from you OAG.CA.GOV/REPORT

This past June, we sued one of the largest landlords in CA for violating tenant protection laws. 
 
Now, we’re asking tenants who’ve been exposed to unsafe housing conditions to share their stories with us at oag.ca.gov/report.
 
All California tenants have the right to safe living conditions.

You are the third of my favorite LA Times journalists leaving in a very short span. 😬

State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General

Join me at for an important announcement about CA’s efforts to protect tenants.
 
Tune in at: oag.ca.gov

Breaking: we’ve secured a court order BLOCKING Trump’s unlawful deployment of the California National Guard in Portland.

This fight isn’t over, but today’s rebuke of the President’s illegal actions is a step in the right direction.

The National Guard is not President Trump’s personal police force.

Gov Newsom and I are joining AG Rayfield’s lawsuit to block the unlawful deployment of the California National Guard to Oregon.

Time and time again, President Trump has shown a clear disregard for the law and the facts on the ground in his efforts to militarize American cities.

NEW: Oregon and Portland filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against Trump tonight, with a new plaintiff added who is joining them: California. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Harry V. Jaffa Endowed Chair

As a Gen Xer, I’m qualified to tell you that it’s unbelievably sad to have this kind of nostalgia for an era when, even in California, the only apple choices at the grocery store were Red Delicious or Granny Smith.

AG BONTA SECURES APPEALS COURT DECISION AFFIRMING NATIONWIDE INJUNCTION IN BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP LAWSUIT "The First Circuit reaffirmed what we already knew to be true: The President's attack on birthright citizenship flagrantly defies the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and a nationwide injunction is the only reasonable way to protect against its catastrophic implications.”

This decision upholds a nationwide injunction in our lawsuit challenging the President’s attempt to end, with the stroke of a pen, the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.

We’ll continue to oppose this executive order until Trump’s attempt to unmake the Constitution is blocked completely

DOJ SUING EL CAJON FOR ILLEGALLY SHARING LICENSE PLATE DATA Automated License Plate Reader systems can collect and store location information that reveals an individual's private life and routines.

We’re suing El Cajon and its Police Department for violating CA’s law prohibiting sharing license plate data with out of state law enforcement.

When information about Californians leaves the state, we no longer have any say over it.

Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration Over Illegal New Retroactive Condition on Public Safety and Victim Services Funding OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, as part of a multistate coalition, filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Justice’s (U.S. DOJ) new condition prohibiting recipients o...

President Trump babbles endlessly about increasing public safety, while all the while forcing organizations that serve victims of crime to meet impossible conditions or shut their doors.

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Vague Trump Admin Guidelines threaten funding for organizations that serve victims of: Domestic violence Sexual assault Child abuse Elder abuse st liberty and justice

We’re suing the Trump Administration for placing illegal immigration conditions on funding for public safety and victim services organizations.

Another government shutdown caused by Trump.

Thanks to his Administration and Congressional Republicans, Americans can look forward to everyday services in disarray and no funding for critical federal programs.

Once again, Trump is choosing his ego over the American people.

Fox Hills, Courtyard Marriott. Likely the 9th floor?

POLITICO Expands California Coverage with New Housing Beat, Welcomes Veteran Reporter Liam Dillon

So very excited to share that I’ll be writing about housing in Los Angeles and across California for Politico www.politico.com/blogs/politi...

“In Culver City, McCourt Partners has recently joined with Lincoln Property Co. to take over and redesign a proposed apartment complex on Jefferson Boulevard. Lang hopes to start work on the project next year, pending the return of institutional investors.”

I haven’t seen a methodologically sound daytime population # for any California city. SCAG’s Jurisdiction Reports provide a credible census of workers (& lots of other good info), but “workers” is probably a much lower number than daytime population for a city like SaMo. scag.ca.gov/sites/defaul...

Yes.

California, other blue states sue over Homeland Security cuts to terrorism-prevention funds The coalition of states said if the issue isn’t addressed in court soon, it’s likely they could lose those funds.

BREAKING:

We won

Trump lost

Yesterday, we filed this case

Today, we won a court order blocking Trump’s unlawful conduct

Another “W” for California, the rule of law, & public safety

Another “L” for Trump & his anti-public safety agenda

You’re the second of my faves to depart this month. 😬 Good luck in your next chapter!

Jamelle Bouie follows you?

California, other states again sue Trump administration for tying aid to immigration laws California and other blue states are suing the Trump administration again over its efforts to withhold federal funding from states with so-called 'sanctuary' policies.

California, other states again sue Trump administration for tying aid to immigration laws

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There’s sort of no excuse for the rail electrification being such a sleeper issue given the incredible success of CalTrain.

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