California Supreme Court rules that county jail kitchen workers can go unpaid
Prison inmates who have been convicted of crimes must be paid a prevailing wage, but state law doesn't require county jail detainees to be paid anything.
Weed Air
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit denied a pilot’s petition for review of an order affirming the revocation of his pilot certificate. The pilot transported marijuana, which is legal in Alaska but a controlled substance under federal law, by aircraft within the state, which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to revoke his pilot certificate. The FAA does not lack jurisdiction, as he says, on the theory that Congress cannot authorize an administrative agency to regulate intrastate commerce such as marijuana delivery within Alaska.
Breadth of homelessness crisis stumps Supreme Court
An Oregon city's ordinance against public camping has the high court contemplating whether involuntary homelessness could be punished.
