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Good Samaritan Legislative “Fix” Introduced in California

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

California State Senator John Benoit (R-Riverside County, 37th District) has proposed new legislation, SB 39, which aims to fix the legal nightmare that the California Supreme Court majority created for Good Samaritans. The legislation, which is now available online, amends Health and Safety Code Section 1799.102 to include the words medical “or nonmedical” care. This [...]

California Supreme Court Second Guesses Good Samaritans

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

The California Supreme Court handed down its decision in Van Horn vs. Watson, which concerns California’s Good Samaritan law. The majority decided that a Good Samaritan is fully exposed to civil liability for emergency rescue or transportation efforts intended to prevent injury to an endangered victim in the first instance, or to ensure that a [...]

California Supreme Court Obliterates Freedom of Religion

Monday, August 18th, 2008

The latest atrocity from the California Supreme Court, which seem to be occurring every few months now, is that medical doctors may not refuse to provide artificial reproductive technology (“ART”) to homosexuals. The two medical doctors in question claimed that they would not provide this service because a) the woman was unmarried and b) because [...]

Fallout and Implications: Homosexual Marriage

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Several excellent articles have been written on the implications and fallout from the California Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage: The American Thinker has posted an excellent and humorous article on the potential for more legal mischief: The court goes on, with a great deal of verbal sleight-of-hand and gobbledygook, to justify gay marriage, i.e. [...]

California Supreme Court Declares Democracy Unconstitutional

Friday, May 16th, 2008

The California Supreme Court declared yesterday that homosexuals have a constitutional right to marry. What they really did was declare democracy unconstitutional. In fashioning a new right out of whole cloth, the California Supreme Court banned democracy and ignored the majority of California voters, who have voted that marriage should be reserved for one man [...]