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  "description": "Asian-American bar association rebooted, Bianco argues Bonta has no authority in ballot seizure case, Tom Steyer to visit Moreno Valley, and the origins of Mothers' Day.",
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  "textContent": "Happy Mothers' Day to all the mothers out there! I hope your sons or daughters are treating you well. Today's our day in history is about the origins of the holiday—be sure to scroll to the bottom to learn it.\n\nWe're one month away from Inland Empire Law Weekly's anniversary. Thank you for being along for the ride.\n\n* * *\n\n## Local news\n\n* * *\n\n### Asian Pacific American bar association revived\n\nThe APALIE board takes their oath of office, administered by San Bernardino Superior Judge R. Glenn Rabuno.\n\nAsian Pacific American Lawyers of the Inland Empire is back. The bar association was started in 2012 by attorney Eugene Kim of Stream Kim Hicks Wrage & Alfaro. It went through a relapse during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was kept alive through the work of past-president Alejandro \"Alex\" Barraza of Arsany and Barraza LLP.\n\nTheir May 7 installation dinner, its most-attended event in its 14 years, showed that its hibernation is over. Barraza handed over leadership to President Ellen Peng of Varner & Brandt and a new board.\n\n\"Alex has been asking multiple people to please bring APALIE back, and we finally did it. We got a board that is so passionate,\" said Peng.\n\nPresiding Appellate Justice Manuel Ramirez gave opening remarks, highlighting former appellate justice, veteran and Nisei Steven Tamara: \"It's not a duty. It is an obligation to remember your history.\"\n\nSan Bernardino Superior Judge Glenn Yabuno gave the keynote speech: \"There was a time—not very long ago—when Asian Pacific American attorneys in the Inland Empire did not have a local organization to connect through. While other parts of Southern California had established affinity bar groups, Riverside and San Bernardino counties did not yet have a space that reflected the diversity, the needs, and the character of the Asian Pacific American legal community here in the Inland Empire.\"\n\nRead more about the event, the 14 newly sworn in Asian-American justices, and Yabuno's full speech:\n\n\"Representation in the judiciary did not happen by accident...\"\n\n* * *\n\n### Sheriff Bianco files opposition to AG Bonta's ballot seizure case\n\nRiverside Sheriff Chad Bianco argued in a Friday court filing that Attorney General Rob Bonta has not proved any authority to stop his investigation into November's election or his court-approved seizure of Riversiders' ballots.\n\nThe filing does not provide any more evidence for the investigation than the audit done by the group of Riversiders known as the Riverside Election Integrity Team. A complete database of their evidence was accidentally leaked by Bianco's lawyer last month and viewed by Inland Empire Law Weekly. Their records showed they had doubt over their original claims that 45,000 more ballots were counted by the Riverside Registrar of Voters than received. Greg Langworthy, a member of the group, said they have been working on final numbers for their audit over the last month.\n\n\"Nothing in Article V, section 13 or Government Code section 12560 expressly creates a clear ministerial duty requiring an independently elected sheriff to terminate a lawful criminal investigation upon a demand by the Attorney General. That alone precludes mandamus relief. Moreover, investigative decisions are quintessentially discretionary. Decisions regarding whether to pursue investigative leads, seek search warrants, preserve evidence, review seized materials, sequence investigative steps, or allocate investigative resources necessarily involve judgment and discretion,\" the filing reads.\n\n\"The Sheriff does not seek unrestricted access to ballots, nor do they contend that ballots should be handled without strict judicial safeguards. Instead, the Sheriff proposes a neutral, court-supervised process overseen by a special master, conducted on-site and subject to rigorous protocols designed to preserve ballot integrity, maintain public confidence, and protect the judiciary’s institutional role.\n\n\"The Attorney General’s contrary position rests on an absolutist reading of Elections Code section 15551 that requires voted ballots to remain in the Registrar’s office regardless of allegations of fraud in that same office,\" it says.\n\nRead their opposition here\n\n* * *\n\n### SB Sheriffs promote employees\n\nThe San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department announced its largest list of promotions since 1991 on Friday. The promotions included one assistant sheriff, four deputy chiefs, seven captains, nine lieutenants, 12 sergeants, and 28 detectives or corporals. Nine of the promotions were new positions to increase mid-level supervision at county patrol stations.\n\nAssistant Sheriff Michael Walker – Criminal Operations, 21 years of service\nDeputy Chief Tim Visosky – Special Operations Bureau, 26 years of service\nDeputy Chief Ryan Smith – Valley / Mountain Patrol Bureau, 21 years of service\nDeputy Chief Michael Martinez – Corrections Operations Bureau, 29 years of service\nDeputy Chief Ryan Collins – Corrections Support Bureau, 27 years of service\nCaptain Sean Struebing – Victor Valley Station, 21 years of service\nCaptain Mark Higgins – Community Services and Reentry Division, 21 years of service\nCaptain Mauricio Hurtado – Big Bear Station, 26 years of service\nCaptain David Frayeh – Central Detention Center, 29 years of service\nCaptain Audomero Moreno – Court Services, 25 years of service\nCaptain Larry Lopez – Specialized Enforcement Division, 26 years of service\nCaptain Lucas Gaytan – Professional Standards Division, 23 years of service\n\n\"I am extremely proud of the employees who have earned these leadership roles and the hard work they have put in to prepare for greater responsibility. The expansion of our Executive Staff and the addition of patrol corporal positions are important investments in our organization and our communities,\" said San Bernardino Sheriff Shannon Dicus, according to a press release.\n\n* * *\n\n### San Bernardino sheriffs arrest 101 alleged pedophiles\n\nA two-week San Bernardino Sheriff's operation led to the arrests of 101 alleged pedophiles and the rescue of 16 children. The annual enforcement period, dubbed Operation Firewall, was executed with the assistance of the Los Angeles Regional Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce.\n\n* * *\n\n### Clown car of cargo thieves stopped by sheriffs\n\nSan Bernardino Sheriff's deputies arrested three of ten people riding in a car full of stolen goods on May 5. The deputies were arriving to the rail yard in Cajon Pass, near the intersection of the 215 and the 15, after getting a call from BNSF Railroad Police. During their arrival at 11 p.m., a vehicle sped past the patrol car. After the driver pulled over following an initial chase, ten people fled from the car. Deputies caught three of them. Stolen goods from the rail yard were found in their car.\n\n* * *\n\n## Local events\n\n### Tom Steyer event\n\nTom Steyer, candidate for governor, will be available for questions May 12 from 4-5 p.m. with Moreno Valley Assm. Corey Jackson. The event is hosted by Inland Empire United.\n\nRegister here\n\n### RCBA Barristers judicial reception\n\nThe Riverside County Bar Association will honor Riverside Superior Judge Sophia Choi as the judicial officer of the year, and Public Defender Steven Harmon as the attorney of the year, at their judicial reception May 14.\n\n### Appellate mediation program\n\nThe Riverside Court of Appeal is asking for attorneys to participate in its mediation program. The volunteers can be experienced in all areas of law, and can be retired, but must have ten years of legal experience. One hundred and sixty-five attorneys over the years have participated in the 34-year-old program.\n\nMediations are scheduled at the convenience of the attorney, and can be remote. The program saves time for litigants as well as the Court of Appeals.\n\nInterested attorneys can call the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, and ask for Jackie Hoar.\n\n### Free legal aid clinics\n\nInland Empire Latino Lawyers Associations hosts free legal aid clinics at the 838 Alta St, Redlands, on the last Wednesday of every month. They also host clinics the first, second and fourth Monday of every month at Bordwell Park, 2008 Martin Luther King Blvd., Riverside. All clinics are held from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.\n\n* * *\n\n## Local sources\n\n _All articles are free to read._\n\n* * *\n\nJudge orders Riverside man released from ICE custody: Darwin Ortega Montufar's arrest was unconstitutional, says U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Richlin // Press-Enterprise\n\nFormer inmate alleges Riverside County jailer used sheriff’s records to pursue her romantically // Press-Enterprise\n\nSan Bernardino man seeks justice after deputy kills dog // KFI\n\n* * *\n\n## Election news\n\n* * *\n\n### A look at the top candidates vying to be California’s controller\n\nIn the race for oversight over California’s budget, the two main contenders are an incumbent with three years of experience and a challenger who is set on exposing fraudulent and wasteful spending.\n\nDemocrat Malia Cohen has served as controller (AKA California’s chief accountant) since 2023, and has raised more than $1.2 million for the race to keep her seat. She oversees spending for a state with a budget of nearly $350 billion and one of the world’s largest economies. It’s her job to make sure the state spends wisely and efficiently.\n\nAs the governor and the Legislature hash out a budget deal for this year, Cohen has...\n\n* * *\n\n### How will California’s next governor handle homelessness?\n\nWhoever takes the mantle as California’s next governor will face an immediate test as they try to solve the crisis of homelessness on our streets.\n\nNearly a quarter of all homeless U.S. residents live in California, though the state is only home to 11% of the country’s overall population. Voters are frustrated by encampments that don’t seem to get any smaller. Amid limited access to mental health and addiction treatment, research has found more than a third of homeless Californians regularly use drugs, and more than a quarter have been hospitalized for a mental illness.\n\nIf Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco becomes governor, his plan is to take “home” out of the discussion around homelessness. His platform is that homelessness has nothing to do with homes and everything to do with drug and alcohol abuse, which may lead to or exacerbate psychosis.\n\nSteve Hilton, a former adviser to the UK prime minister and Fox News host, places a major emphasis on what he calls wasteful spending. There’s plenty of money in California’s budget, he said, but it goes to special interest groups instead of programs that actually help people who are homeless or have severe mental illnesses.\n\nWhen it comes to homelessness policy, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has become the big face of tiny homes. San Jose has built a bunch of them under his direction.\n\nTo address homelessness, Villaraigosa said his No. 1 focus would be building housing. Like Mahan, he sees potential in using tiny homes to get people off the street.\n\nWatch videos of the candidates here\n\n* * *\n\n### Voter guide\n\nRead all articles on the June election here\n\n* * *\n\n## State news\n\n* * *\n\n### GM just paid a record penalty for breaking California privacy law\n\nGeneral Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties for selling driving data of hundreds of thousands of California motorists to data brokers, allegedly without their consent.\n\nThe settlement, announced Friday, is the largest ever for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act, a 2018 law that requires companies to tell consumers about how their data is shared and to respect requests to stop the sharing.\n\nIt stemmed from an investigation by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, several county district attorneys, and the California Privacy Protection Agency, which enforces the privacy act. They said General Motors misled drivers who paid for the emergency roadside and navigation service OnStar and made approximately $20 million from the unlawful sale of their data between 2020 and 2024. The information included names, location information, driving behavior, and contact information, Bonta said, which went to the data brokers LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Verisk Analytics.\n\n“This trove of information included precise and personal location data...\"\n\n* * *\n\n### Free speech group defends student journalists in Marin County\n\nCiting both the First Amendment and California’s student free expression law, a national press rights and free speech group has called for a Marin County school district to stop what its superintendent recently called an “open and ongoing” investigation of how student journalists chose to publish a photograph that drew complaints.\n\nThe Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, known as FIRE, told officials of the Tamalpais Union High School District on Monday to back off from the award-winning student newspaper Redwood Bark of Redwood High School in Larkspur.\n\nEdSource reported last week that administrators appeared to violate a state law protecting student publications from interference and censorship.\n\nA spokesman for the group said...\n\n* * *\n\n### Should a California union dictate how clinics spend money? Employers sue to block ballot measure\n\nCalifornia’s billionaires are not the only ones fighting back against the state’s largest health workers union this election season. Now the clinics are too.\n\nThe California Primary Care Association, which represents more than 2,300 community health clinics, and Open Door Community Health Centers filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West from placing an initiative on the November ballot that would dictate how clinics spend money.\n\nThe clinic’s lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the union’s ballot measure would interfere with federal laws and regulations that place strict spending requirements on nonprofit health clinics that serve low-income patients.\n\nA nearly identical version of the ballot initiative failed to pass in the state Legislature earlier this year.\n\n* * *\n\nAttorney for man shot by ICE in California says his client did not try to run officers over // AP\n\nColossal hospice fraud scheme cost California millions, officials say amid intensifying Trump feud // Los Angeles Times\n\n'Ketamine queen' gets lengthy prison sentence for selling drug that killed Matthew Perry // Los Angeles Times\n\n* * *\n\n## Resistance state: Tracking California’s lawsuits against the new Trump administration\n\nResistance state: Tracking California’s lawsuits against the new Trump administrationThis story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Round 2 of California vs. Trump is well underway. President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders moments after being inaugurated president, and many of them could directly affect California. These orders include revoking licenses for offshoreInland Empire Law WeeklyCalMatters Staff\n\n* * *\n\n## National news\n\n* * *\n\n### Pulitzer Prizes awarded\n\nColumbia University announced The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on May 4, highlighting the best of journalists' work over the last year.\n\nAt the top of the list, receiving the Pulitzer for Public Service, was The Washington Post for its continued reporting on the Trump administration's overhaul of federal agencies. Despite what their owner wants to do to the editorial section, or how many journalists they fire, the Washington Post remains the standard for quality reporting.\n\nMore locally, the Southern California News Group was nominated to the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting over their coverage of the Eaton Fire.\n\nThe San Francisco Chronicle received the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for its series explaining insurance companies' systemic devaluation of homes lost to fire. The paper also received a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting over its investigation into California's psychiatric hospitals and a nomination for Feature Photography over their series on the fentanyl crisis.\n\nOther publications were applauded for their reporting on ICE sweeps, deportation, towing charges, Facebook scams and the operations of the DOJ.\n\nIt's easy to say that journalism has been replaced by social media. It's hard to find any influencers that are doing this kind of work. Congratulations to these publications.\n\n* * *\n\n### Another court ruling blocks Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs\n\nWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s trade agenda faced another major setback Thursday when the U.S. Court of International Trade handed a win to two small businesses and the state of Washington after they challenged the president's 10% global tariffs, imposed after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his previous emergency tariff regime.\n\nIn a 2-1 decision, the court granted a permanent injunction to a Florida-based toy manufacturer and a New York-based spice importer that sued the Trump administration in March, alleging the new tariffs would harm their businesses.\n\nThe court also granted relief to...\n\n* * *\n\n### Whether Sen. Mark Kelly advised 'disobedience' to service members argued in appeals case\n\nWASHINGTON — Attorneys for the Trump administration argued before a federal appeals court Thursday the Pentagon should be able to reprimand Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly for reminding members of the military they can refuse illegal orders, and for criticizing the Defense Department.\n\nLawyers from the Justice Department told the three-judge panel that even though Kelly, a retired Navy captain, is no longer on active duty and has no commanding officer, they believe he is still subject to disciplinary action and limited First Amendment rights.\n\nJohn Bailey, an attorney in the DOJ’s civil rights division, said...\n\n* * *\n\n### Suspect in D.C. press dinner shooting indicted for attempt to assassinate Trump\n\nWASHINGTON — The alleged White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on four federal charges, including attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump and assaulting an officer or employee of the United States with a deadly weapon.\n\nThe three-page indictment alleges 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, of California, “knowingly and by means and use of a deadly and dangerous weapon” forcibly assaulted, intimidated or interfered with an unidentified U.S. Secret Service agent who was hit with one bullet in his protective vest while working a security checkpoint outside the annual dinner. The agent was uninjured.\n\nThe indictment does not specify whether Allen fired the shot that hit the agent.\n\nAllen was also indicted on...\n\n* * *\n\n### National news from around the web\n\n _All articles are free to read._\n\nJudge rules Trump administration’s cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional // Associated Press\n\nDeported Texas DACA recipient returned to U.S. freed after detainment // Texas Tribune\n\n* * *\n\n## History\n\n* * *\n\n### The Declaration of Independence\n\nIn celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Inland Empire Law Weekly is reviewing each of the reasons for independence as outlined in the Declaration.\n\nThe 21st reason: **_\"For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.\"_**\n\nThis is a summation of earlier complaints: the revocation of the Massachusetts charter, the creation of the military as independent of the civil power, the creation of new offices, the imposition of his will on judges and for dissolving colonial assemblies.\n\nThe colonists took issue with these actions not only because they negatively affected them, but because they considered the charter to be a form of unalterable Constitution.\n\n\"A charter is to be understood as a bond of solemn obligation which the whole enters into to support the right of every separate part, whether of religion, personal freedom, or property. A firm bargain and a right reckoning make long friend,\" wrote Thomas Paine in Common Sense.\n\nPaine wrote that a charter should be the king of the land.\n\n\"Let a crown be placed (on the charter, or Constitution), by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other,\" Paine wrote.\n\n* * *\n\n### Book recommendation: We the People\n\nThis week's book recommendation is _We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution_ , by Jill Lepore.\n\nThis is less this publication's recommendation, and more the Pulitzer Prize's recommendation. Lepore's work won the history prize for books this week.\n\nPublished on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding—the anniversary, too, of the first state constitutions— _We the People_ offers a wholly new history of the Constitution. “One of the Constitution’s founding purposes was to prevent change,” Lepore writes. “Another was to allow for change without violence.” Relying on the extraordinary database she has assembled at the Amendments Project, Lepore recounts centuries of attempts, mostly by ordinary Americans, to realize the promise of the Constitution. Yet nearly all those efforts have failed. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been introduced in Congress since 1789, and thousands more have been proposed outside its doors, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified. More troubling, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without recourse to amendment, she argues, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential or judicial fiat.\n\n$37 from Bookshop.org\n\n* * *\n\n### Today in history: First Mothers' Day celebration\n\nOn May 10, 1908, the first official Mothers' Day celebration was held in Grafton, West Virginia. Anna Jarvis led the initiative at the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, to fulfill the long-running dream of her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis. She chose May 10 as it was the anniversary of Ann's death, three years earlier.\n\nAm was born in 1832, and led public health initiatives, named Mothers' Day Work Clubs, in the free state of West Virginia during the American Civil War. These clubs planned a \"Mothers Friendship Day\" following the Civil War, in an attempt to reconcile families on either side of the conflict. She gave birth to twelve children, four of which grew to adulthood.\n\n\"I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mothers day commemorating her for the matchless service she renders to humanity in every field of life. She is entitled to it,\" Ann said.\n\nTwo years after the first official Mothers' Day, West Virginia declared it an official holiday. Congress followed in 1914. President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation the next day, asking for government officials and Americans to fly the United States flag on government buildings and their homes \"as a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country.\"",
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