In CEQA litigation, the administrative record is the key document that memorializes the evidence and proceedings which lead to project approval. When the petitioners in a CEQA lawsuit choose to prepare the administrative record themselves, they are increasingly using the Public Records Act as a tool in such work, and doing so imposes costs and burdens on the public agency.

This program will analyze legal issues connected to "Social Media” in the public sector workplace, including how social media can be a tool in the litigation arsenal of public employers and employees alike. Learn about the constitutional boundaries at play, and where the government’s interest as the employer intersects with a public employee’s 1st Amendment rights.

Almost every city has abandoned, vacant, or dilapidated properties. These properties blight neighborhoods for years, while endangering communities, driving down property values and harming neighborhood morale.

A unique opportunity to learn about the constitutionality and history of pandemic-related restrictions and mandates in a society devoted to individual rights from a renowned scholar.

There has been a recent increase in the nature and number of threats and acts of violence directed against elected officials, city councils, administrative agencies, school boards and public employees.