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<p>A five-day strike, which was scheduled for the week of December 16, has been postponed in the light of the sudden demise of the company’s chief executive officer, Bernard Tyson. According to the reports, the union that represents 4000 Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians made the announcement. The strike is going to affect patients at more than 100 facilities run by Kaiser in California from Sacramento to San Diego. One of the main demands put up by the workers is to shorten the waiting period for patients who are trying to schedule return visits for behavioral health treatment and reduce caseloads for therapists. Ken Rogers, who is a Kaiser psychologist, said in his statement that Mental health has been overlooked and underserved. They are ready to work with Kaiser to form a new model for mental health care. It is not right to force patients to wait for two months for appointments. The clinics are overloaded with cases. The situation can only get better if Kaiser steps up and commit to fix the system and treat the patients and caregivers fairly.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

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17:34 11 December

Workers of Kaiser in California announced a new strike date.

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<p>As per the 2018 report published by Lex Machina Trade Secret Litigation, the 2016 enactment of the Defend Trade Secrets Act has increased the filings of trade secret claims in the federal courts. The act put the number of mysterious trade cases to similar footing with patents, copyrights, and trademarks under federal law. Northern District of California had only 27 such cases in 2015, which has increased to 64 in 2018. Also, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California saw a sudden increase in trade secret disputes as compared to 2015, which was clocked at 14.6 percent higher this year. Before 2016, such cases were handled under the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act, which was formed in 1985. When such situations are filed under DTSA, the advantage goes to American companies against a foreign business. However, as per Lex Machina’s report, only 1/3 of such cases were filed by American companies against international companies in California. Most of such cases involve California plaintiffs suing California defendants.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

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17:32 11 December

Trade Secret Claims by California Plaintiffs may go to State Courts.

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<p>California state “anti-arbitration” law, A.B. 51.1 A.B. 51, states that the formation and use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in the employment setting are prohibited in the state. The bill was passed earlier this year. Governor Gavin Newsom signed it to make it a law on October 10, 2019. It will come in effect on January 1, 2020. On Friday, December 6, 2019, a group formed by the collaboration of national and state trade associations has filed a suit in California federal court to stop this law from coming in effect. The traders are against A.B. 51 that prohibits them from requiring applicants or employees to waive any right, forum, or procedure established by the California Fair Employment and Housing Act and the state Labor Code. It is applicable for employment entered into, modified, or extended on or after the day it comes in effect. Traders have argued that the state is forcing unnecessary laws on them, and it should be declared unconstitutional. The case is complicated, which may result in a long court battle between the state and the traders.</p><p><br></p>

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17:30 11 December

National and State Trade Group get in a legal battle to end California “Anti-Arbitration” Law.

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<p>Health workers at Stanford University are accommodating a high-tech environment at one of the country's most advanced new hospitals, which took more than $2 billion and a decade to build.</p><p><br></p><p>The New Stanford Hospital opened on November 17, in Palo Alto, California, exhibit the cutting edge medical technology which is built to meet new seismic safety standards in California. This will begin to take effect next year.</p><p><br></p><p>These future facilities will have a fleet of more than two dozen robots. Most of these robots will be performing fundamental tasks and will be preprogrammed to travel along hospital routes while a few will work in the pharmacy.</p><p><br></p><p>There will be twenty-three TUG courier robots with the task of hauling supplies. </p><p><br></p><p>"To protect our employees, we will be automating the heavy movement across long distances," says Shaheed Hickman, the hospital's supply chain manager.</p><p><br></p><p>"These TUGs will contribute to back-of-the-house support to our staff, and our clinicians by showing we are getting the right items to the hospital for patient care," said Almeda McLaren, the hospital's director of regional supply chain services.</p><p><br></p><p>The TUGs can work for 10 hours with periodic charges and will carry food trays, waste, medical supplies, small parcels, and linens before returning to recharge.</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p>

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17:27 11 December

Efficiency, new seismic standards behind $2B high-tech California hospital.

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<p>Fatima Martinez knows her SAT score holds great importance to her future.</p><p><br></p><p>The Los Angeles high school senior says, "My future is at stake with the score I achieve, which will determine the UC school I can go into."</p><p><br></p><p>But this will not be the case in the long run.</p><p><br></p><p>On Tuesday, a lawsuit is expected to be filed, which will challenge the University of California system's use of the ACT or SAT as a condition for admission. A draft of the document obtained by NPR claims that the tests are deeply biased and present no significant information about a student's ability to succeed, which makes their requirement unconstitutional.</p><p><br></p><p>Mark Rosenbaum, an attorney of the pro bono firm Public Counsel, says, "SAT and ACT are heightening inequities in the public school system and keeping out worthy students every admissions cycle."</p><p><br></p><p>On behalf of students and a collection of advocacy groups, Public Counsel is going to file the suit in California Superior Court.</p><p><br></p><p>Some university leaders have displayed their support on a long-debated dropping the tests in the University of California system. </p><p><br></p><p>On the other hand, the research conducted by the College Board says that SAT scores are predictive of success in college, and the ACT says its test are not biased.</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>

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17:16 11 December

Lawsuit Claims SAT, And ACT Are Illegal In California Admissions.

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<p>Authorities recently stated that British Columbia’s one of the most wanted fugitives had been arrested. According to the reports, Brandon Teixeira, who is a 28-years-old man from Canada, was wanted for a murder, which he committed in 2017. He escaped the authorities and was absconding since then. Butte County Sheriff’s office in a statement said that he was arrested on Sunday in Oroville after he rammed his SUV in the armored van of Sheriff. He was trying to escape. Jeff Guerrier, who hails from New York, was also arrested at the scene for housing Teixeira. Detectives, U.S. Marshals, and SWAT teams had the search warrant for their residence on Nov 30 and conducted ongoing surveillance of the home until they served the order on Dec 1. He was arrested after a K-9 helped in taking him down. Police also found 26 pounds of heroin, more than 1,000 OxyContin and Percocet pills, and around 40 pounds of marijuana in his possession. He shot Nicholas Khabra, 28, multiple times in Surrey, British Columbia, in 2017. Khabra died in the hospital, after which a nationwide warrant was issued for Teixeira.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

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06:51 5 December

Canadian man arrested in CA for homicide after two years.

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<p>Jack LaPant was in shock when he came to know that he could be violating the Clean Water Act for farming his land. The federal law includes an explicit exemption for “normal” farming activities. However, the Army Corps of Engineers filed a case against him in 2016 for plowing he did in 2011. In March 2012, he sold that property, which is located in Tehama County 4 miles south of the city of Red Bluff. Before beginning plowing, he consulted government officials who never suggested that he should meet the Army Corps of Engineers. When he talked to officials and asked them if it is okay to use the land to grow wheat, they cleared it. However, no one tells the farmers that one has to check with the Army Corps of Engineers before using their land for farming. Department of Agriculture has no idea about it though both departments belong to the same government. Tony Francois, who is a lawyer with Pacific Legal Foundation, said that though it is mentioned in the Clean Water Act that standard farming practices are exempted, Army Corp has imposed many hurdles of their own.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

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06:48 5 December

A farmer from California fighting Government against their claim that dirt is a pollutant.

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<p>The dispute over California’s limited water supplies has plunged into a San Francisco courtroom after a lawsuit was filed this week, which claimed that the federal government’s plan to slacken previous restraints on water deliveries to farmers is most likely a blueprint for wiping out fish.</p><p><br></p><p>Fishing groups and environmentalists sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service on Monday, claiming that they allegedly failed to protect steelhead trout, chinook salmon, and delta smelt.</p><p><br></p><p>These fishing groups and environmentalists believe that the full government proposal that provides the Central Valley farmers and Southern California cities more water is without a satisfactory explanation for the protections for the imperiled fish.</p><p><br></p><p>The lawsuit filed charges that the plans of the government to increase rural deliveries from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is an absolute and whimsical failure to support the Endangered Species Act.</p><p><br></p><p>The vast pumps that are used to bring delta water to irrigate 750,000 acres of cropland and 25 million Californians have been a subject of years of the legal quarrel between environmentalists, farmers, fishing interests, and water agencies across the state.</p><p><br></p><p>The environmentalists claim that the pumps suck up and kill a silver-colored endangered fish that is uniquely adapted to the delta’s salty water and shifting currents.</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>

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06:45 5 December

Fishing groups sue federal agencies over the latest water plan for California.

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<p>The state's largest utility PG&E says it is searching for innovative ways of preventing disasters in the future after it accepts the responsibility for setting off California's most destructive and deadliest wildfire ever.</p><p><br></p><p>State regulators released a new report detailing how PG&E neglected to properly examine and maintain the equipment, which lead to the ignition os the November 2018 Camp Fire. This wildfire killed 85 people and destroyed 18,804 structures leaving the Northern California town of Paradise wholly devastated. </p><p><br></p><p>A California Public Utilities Commission investigated the events that led to a catastrophic fire and found that the company broke 12 state safety rules, which regulators considered not a rare instance but a clear sign of an overall pattern of incompetent maintenance and inspection of PG&E's transmission facilities.</p><p><br></p><p>Amongst the violations, the utility also ignored to conduct detailed climbing examinations that could have discovered the equipment failure, which finally ignited the fire and also failed to prioritize a safety hazard accurately.</p><p><br></p><p>The reports also said the aging tower from which a wasted hook broke and finally ignited the fire had not undergone a climbing inspection since at least 2001.</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>

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06:43 5 December

PG&E takes the blame for California's deadliest wildfire and now explores 'technologies' to limit future risks.

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<p>Kamala Harris has never been able to personally lockdown California as a presidential contender. On the other side, senator’s supporters are clearly warning that Harris’s formal rivals would be stupid to underrate Harris’ influence in her home state.</p><p><br></p><p>The daughter of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the chair of the California Democratic Party Women’s Caucus, Christine Pelosi, said, “Where do the people of California who supported Kamala go now? First, they will grief, and then they will start watching other people’s reactions to it — since the remaining field just got a huge boost.” Christine Pelosi applauded Harris’ entry into the 2020 race.</p><p><br></p><p>California holds a great deal of influence and colossal importance in the race starring a mother-lode of Super Tuesday primary delegates and the nation’s political ATM.</p><p><br></p><p>After a long time of 11 months of Harris’ troubled campaign’s prospects in California’s March 3 primary were bleak, and now she can advance into the role of kingmaker.</p><p><br></p><p>Up to this point, Harris’ exit has been responded by other Democratic contenders with an overflow of support, which hint that her support as well as those of the elected officials who supported her, could be of importance.</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>

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06:41 5 December

California up for grabs as Harris exits the race.

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