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  "textContent": "Thank you for being a free subscriber to Inland Empire Law Weekly. We're offering 50% off our annual paid subscription this weekend.\n\n\n                            Redeem 50% off\n                        \n\n* * *\n\n## Local news\n\n* * *\n\n### No prosecutions from Riv. Sheriff's 4-year election investigation\n\nThe Riverside Sheriff's Office's investigation into election fraud has not brought any prosecutions.\n\nAt a March 20 press conference, Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco told reporters his office had been investigating election fraud since 2022, and that some of the cases have been adjudicated.\n\nThe Riverside District Attorney's Office prosecuted four cases of unlawful voter registration or casting of a fraudulent vote since 2012. The last referral was made in July 2019. That case came from within the DA's Office, and was not referred by the Sheriff's Office.\n\n\"We have referred cases to the District Attorney's Office. Some of those are pending. Some of those have already been adjudicated,\" Bianco said.\n\n* * *\n\n### DA Anderson: AG asks too much on Riv. ballot issue\n\nThree briefs have been filed in the past week regarding Attorney General Rob Bonta's case before the Supreme Court to halt Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco's investigation of the 2025 election.\n\nThe Riverside Sheriff's Office still has possession of the ballots, which Bianco has wanted to manually recount to determine the number of ballots cast. His investigation was started at the request of a group of Riverside citizens. Riverside Superior Judge Jay Kiel, who issued the warrants to seize the ballots and start a count of the ballots under the authority of a special master, has paused the recount until the Supreme Court makes their decision.\n\nThe briefs are brought by San Bernardino District Attorney Anderson, nine county registrars and the California State Sheriff's Association.\n\nThe Supreme Court will review the case to answer three questions:\n\n* * *\n\n### State Senator honors IE legal aid\n\nState Sen. Sabrina Cervantes (D-Riverside) named Inland Counties Legal Services a California Nonprofit of the Year.\n\nThe nonprofit, founded in 1958, provides legal services to low-income IE residents in the fields of housing, public benefits, family law, consumer debt, health care and small business.\n\n“Through tireless legal advocacy and services, Inland Counties Legal Services has gone above and beyond to work toward the betterment of the Inland Empire community,” said Cervantes.\n\nICLS Executive Director Tessie Solorzano thanked Cervantes for the award.\n\n“Legal aid is absolutely critical for the wellbeing of our communities. Without legal representation, it’s difficult for folks to navigate complex civil court proceedings,” said Solorzano.\n\nClick for a full list of local nonprofits honored this year\n\n* * *\n\n### Pretrial detainee claims medical care denied in Riv. jail\n\nAnother Riverside jail detainee has sued the county on allegations that their jail failed to provide medical services. Crystal Hancock alleges her medical discharge instructions, prescription medications and antibiotics were seized from her when she was held at Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility.\n\nThe Riverside Sheriff's Office does not comment on pending litigation.\n\nHancock's attorney, Dan Bolton of Walter Clark Legal Group, wrote in an email that constitutional rights do not disappear at the jailhouse door, and quoted the landmark Supreme Court case Estelle v. Gamble (1976): \"We therefore conclude that deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners constitutes the ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain’ proscribed by the Eighth Amendment.\"\n\nCrystal Hancock was detained at the jail on Feb. 9...\n\n* * *\n\n### Riverside Bar graduates cohort of new attorneys\n\nMembers of the New Attorney Academy at the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Two, courthouse in Riverside.\n\nThe Riverside County Bar Association's New Attorney Academy wrapped up last week, introducing a new cohort of attorneys to the people and customs of Riverside's legal scene.\n\nThe Academy meets once a month, and instructs attorneys on the local courts, relationships with other attorneys, depositions and a wide range of local etiquette.\n\nThe academy, in its 11th year of operation, is ran by Robyn Lewis of Lewis Law. The San Bernardino/Riverside American Board of Trial Advocates co-sponsors the Academy, and Riverside judges advise on the steering committee.\n\nCongratulations to this round of graduates: Nathaniel Acosta, Sarah Antonucci, Jordy Araya, Eddy Arce-Elias, Laura Aron, Joscelyn Carrillo, Mackenzi Christenson, Maria Cook, Carolyn Deal, Amelia Dunaway, Joe Ernatt, Stephanie Gonzalez, Taylor Heath, Briana Heiting, Katherine Johnston, Olivia McGovern, Rebecca Mikhail, Gregory Mikhanjian, Owen Murphy, Lisa Ng, Daniel Reilly, Colin Ryan, Desirea Tucker, Luis Vega and Maren Wolemberghe.\n\nThe Academy is open for applicants for next year's cohort, which will begin in October.\n\n* * *\n\n### Ex-CSU San Bernardino administrators awarded record $12M in gender bias lawsuit\n\nTwo former administrators at Cal State San Bernardino were awarded $12 million to settle their claims that the university fired or forced them out of their jobs after raising alarms about gender-based harassment, retaliation and unequal pay.\n\nThe settlement, announced May 12 by the law firm representing the two administrators, resolves claims brought by former vice provost of academic affairs Clare Weber and former dean Anissa Rogers. Both women worked at Cal State San Bernadino’s Palm Desert campus.\n\nThe lawsuit, filed in March 2023, named as defendants Cal State San Bernardino President Tomás Morales, former Palm Desert campus dean Jake Zhu and the California State University Board of Trustees.\n\nIn the suit, Weber claims she was fired shortly after ...\n\n* * *\n\n## Local sources\n\n _All articles are free to read._\n\nFormer Riverside City Council member Ronaldo Fierro accused of domestic battery _//_ Press-Enterprise\n\nFamily sues Riverside County after sheriff's deputy runs red light, killing a man and injuring his fiancée _//_ Los Angeles Times\n\n* * *\n\n## State news\n\n* * *\n\n### What are they trying to hide? California lawmakers kill lobbying transparency bills\n\nCalifornia lawmakers are poised to kill legislation that would have forced them to immediately release lobbying letters from business and advocacy groups and given the public a new window into the secretive world of Capitol lobbying.\n\nTwo bills that would have required the Legislature to post the letters lawmakers receive from registered lobbyists and groups trying to influence legislation never received a hearing in the California Assembly.\n\nCalMatters has been trying for more than a year to get real-time access to these public records to add transparency to the legislative process.\n\nThe letters detail the concerns or approval groups express about the hundreds of bills lawmakers introduce each year, often passing them after just a few minutes of debate and public testimony.\n\nNow, the Democratic lawmaker in charge of the committee that would have to approve the measures for them to advance says the Legislature doesn’t need a law to put the letters online.\n\nAssembly Rules Committee Chairperson Blanca Pacheco...\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### Jan. 6 police officers sue Trump over $1.77B ‘taxpayer-funded slush fund’\n\nTwo police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay people said to be victims of judicial weaponization, saying the fund would aid and encourage the pro-Trump rioters who attacked that Capitol that day and still harbor desire to harm the officers.\n\nRetired U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges said in a complaint in federal court that Jan. 6 rioters, nearly all of whom received a pardon from President Donald Trump on his first day back in office last year, could benefit from the fund and use the money to organize more violent activity.\n\nDunn and Hodges both deployed to the Capitol during the 2021 attack...\n\n* * *\n\n### Meta resolves lawsuit with school district over student mental health impact\n\nMeta settled a major lawsuit on Thursday with a Kentucky school district over claims that its platforms are designed to be addictive and harm children, The New York Times reported. The settlement follows other settlements with TikTok, Snap and YouTube less than three weeks before the case was scheduled for trial in an Oakland federal court.\n\nThe case, brought by Breathitt County Schools, a small rural district in Kentucky, was a bellwether case among 1,200 lawsuits filed by school districts accusing social media companies of negligence and creating addictive technology. School districts claim that the companies’ platforms have led to significant financial strain on mental health counseling and services for students.\n\nThe settlements follow two losses for social media giants in March: a Los Angeles jury finding Meta and YouTube liable for harming a 20-year-old plaintiff, and a New Mexico jury finding Meta liable for endangering child safety.\n\n“We’ve resolved this case amicably and remain focused on our longstanding work to build protections like Teen Accounts that help teens stay safe online, while giving parents simple controls to support their families,” said a Meta spokesperson. The company did not disclose the terms of the settlement.\n\nBreathitt County Schools said students’ use of social media had led to increased anxiety, depression and self-harm, and it said the $60 million it sought through the lawsuit would pay for a 15-year mental health program to improve student mental health. Attorneys for the district said in a statement on Thursday that “our focus remains on pursuing justice for the remaining 1,200 school districts who have filed cases.”\n\nThe next case against social media companies brought by the Tucson Unified School District is set to go to federal court in January 2027.\n\n* * *\n\n### In Nashville, a federal judge dismisses indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia\n\nNASHVILLE — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a criminal indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 30-year-old man living in Maryland who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last year, calling the prosecution “vindictive and selective.”\n\n“Then-Attorney General Robert H. Jackson warned his fellow prosecutors long ago of the danger of picking the person first and the crime second … That is the situation here,” U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw, who was appointed by President Barack Obama to the federal bench, wrote in an opinion filed Friday.\n\nAbrego, as he is identified in court documents, entered the United States...\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\nToday's reason: \"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.\"\n\nThis refers to the hiring of Native American and German troops to be sent into the colonies. John Adams describes the situation best in a letter to his friend, Horatio Gates:\n\n_I know not whether you have seen the Act of Parliament call’d the restraining Act, or prohibitory Act, or piratical Act, or plundering Act, or Act of Independency, for by all these Titles is it call’d. I think the most apposite is the Act of Independency, for King Lords and Commons have united in Sundering this Country and that I think forever. It is a compleat Dismemberment of the British Empire. It throws thirteen Colonies out of the Royal Protection, levels all Distinctions and makes us independent in Spight of all our supplications and Entreaties._\n\n_It may be fortunate that the Act of Independency should come from the British Parliament, rather than the American Congress: But it is very odd that Americans should hesitate at accepting Such a Gift from them._\n\n* * *\n\n### Today in history: Freedom Riders arrested\n\nFreedom Riders that had been arrested and taken to a police department in Jackson, Mississippi.\n\nThe Freedom Riders were arrested on this date in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi.\n\nThe civil rights activists were touring a segregated South in integrated buses. On this day 65 years ago, 25 of them stopped at a bus station and tried to use the whites only restroom. They were sentenced to 30 days in jail for disturbing the peace. The Supreme Court would overturn their convictions in 1965.\n\n* * *\n\n### Book recommendation\n\nThis week's book recommendation is _Freedom Riders: 1961 and the struggle for Racial Justice_ by Raymond Arsenault _._\n\nThis book examines the long legal history behind which the Freedom Riders were arrested for. It begins with Irene Morgan's 1944 arrest for sitting in the white section of a segregated bus in Baltimore, Maryland. Her case resulted in the Supreme Court's 1946 ruling that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional. Their ruling would not be enforced by law enforcement.\n\nThe book continues to discuss the early Freedom Rides, which were intended to strengthen the court's ruling, then the mob violence and arrests the Freedom Riders faced.\n\n$24 from your local bookshop",
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