Sacramento, California

Sacramento (/ˌsækrəˈmɛnt/; Spanish: [sakɾaˈmento]) is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of government of Sacramento County. It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. Its estimated 2014 population of 485,199 made it the sixth-largest city in California. Sacramento is the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area, which includes seven counties with a 2010 population of 2,414,783. Its metropolitan area is the fourth largest in California after the Greater Los Angeles area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Diego metropolitan area, and is the 27th largest in the United States. In 2002, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University conducted for TIME magazine named Sacramento "America's Most Diverse City".

Sacramento became a city through the efforts of the Swiss immigrant John Sutter, Sr., his son John Sutter, Jr., and James W. Marshall. Sacramento grew quickly thanks to the protection of Sutter's Fort, which was established by Sutter in 1839. During the California Gold Rush, Sacramento was a major distribution point, a commercial and agricultural center, and a terminus for wagon trains, stagecoaches, riverboats, the telegraph, the Pony Express, and the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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Prison guards' use of force is rarely deemed excessive by federal courts and judges, analysis shows

Business Insider 22 Dec 2024
In the intervening period, a series of new laws and legal standards changed the landscape for incarcerated plaintiffs ... California State Prison, Sacramento, popularly known as New Folsom ... UC Davis Library/Sacramento Union Archives, D-350. The allegations contained in the legal ......
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Column: States are fighting one another over abortion laws. California could get dragged in

The Los Angeles Times 17 Dec 2024
There are 34 days until the inauguration, and today we're talking about the coming legal war over states' rights ... 'This is not one legal war. It's a bunch of legal wars.' That, said California Assemblymember Maggy Krell (D-Sacramento), is its own brand of repression....
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Court rules California Coastal Commission can limit construction of seawalls for thousands of property owners

Monterey Herald 15 Dec 2024
“We’re very pleased that the court upheld a commonsense reading of the Coastal Act,” said Kate Huckelbridge, executive director of the Coastal Commission ... “The California Constitution guarantees citizens a right to protect their private property,” said Jeremy Talcott, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento ... 1, 1977, cutoff date....
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Opinion: Oregon’s antiquated laws block needed health services

The Oregonian 11 Dec 2024
Cavanaugh is legal policy counsel at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a national public-interest law firm headquartered in Sacramento that fights against government overreach ... years-long legal battle and alerted the state in July 2023 that it would no longer pursue the project....
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Boiling Point: Trump can’t stop clean energy. But he can slow it down

The Los Angeles Times 10 Dec 2024
The question isn't whether the energy transition will happen ... The U.S ... Environmental Protection Agency urged California officials to keep more water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, to protect fish important to tribes. (Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee)Residents of a Washington city voted to give enforceable legal rights to the Snohomish River ... ....
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Santa Cruz soda tax measure officially passes

East Bay Times 05 Dec 2024
Steve Maviglio, spokesperson for the opposition group called Campaign for an Affordable Santa Cruz, pointed out that the race was a close one, with the measure passing by about 1,400 votes, and that the tax could face legal challenges moving forward ... ChangeLab Solutions and the American Heart Association also supported the legal action....
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Measure Z soda tax officially passes in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Sentinel 05 Dec 2024
Steve Maviglio, spokesperson for the opposition group called Campaign for an Affordable Santa Cruz, pointed out that the race was a close one, with the measure passing by about 1,400 votes, and that the tax could face legal challenges moving forward ... ChangeLab Solutions and the American Heart Association also supported the legal action....
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Ahead of second Trump term, California vows ‘ironclad’ abortion access

The Los Angeles Times 04 Dec 2024
Rob Bonta said at a news conference in Sacramento on Monday, pointing to renewed legal challenges to the distribution of abortion pills ... Newsom this week called a special legislative session in Sacramento to prepare for legal combat with Trump on issues such as abortion and ......
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Newsletter: California prepares for Trump 2.0: Here’s how things will be different this time

The Los Angeles Times 03 Dec 2024
That was obvious Monday as lawmakers gathered in Sacramento to take the oath of office and kick off a special session devoted to gearing up for legal battle with the incoming Trump administration ... When Trump was elected last time around, women made up about 22% of the lawmakers in Sacramento....
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Homes vs. beaches: Court makes key decision in battle over California seawall construction amid ocean rise

Chico Enterprise Record 03 Dec 2024
It’s a big deal,” said Charles Lester, director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center at UC Santa Barbara ... But reinterpreting the Coastal Act to sacrifice the rights of coastal landowners isn’t the way to solve these problems,” said Jeremy Talcott, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, a Sacramento property rights group ... 7, 2023....
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Sacramento Snapshot: Legislators launch bid to ‘Trump-proof’ California

Orange County Register 02 Dec 2024
Sacramento Snapshot ... Sacramento Snapshot is a weekly series during the legislative session detailing what Orange County’s representatives in the Assembly and Senate are working on — from committee work to bill passages and more ... New state law bans use of campaign funds to pay legal fees if official convicted of public crimes ... Sacramento Snapshot....

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