July 16th, 2009 at 02:52am
Under Aviation Law
If you’ve had an airplane or aviation accident anywhere in California, from San Diego to Orange County, or from Santa Barbara to Palm Springs, or at any other Southern California airport including Carlsbad, Chico, Imperial, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Ontario, San Luis Obispo, Santa Ana, Santa Maria, Palmdale, Camarillo, Chino, Compton, El Monte, Hawthorne, La Verne, Ramona, Riverside, San Bernardino, Torrance, Upland, Van Nuys, Burbank, Apple Valley, Banning, Big Bear, Borrego Springs, Calexico, Corona, Lompoc, Murrieta, Temecula, Oceanside, Paso Robles, Redlands, Santa Ynez, Twentynine Palms, Hesperia, Joshua Tree, or Yucca Valley, you’ve probably been wondering if the California state legislators are working on any new Bills to try to prevent airplane accidents or if the cut backs on food and drinks on flights means that safety might also suffer.
I had heard that the state’s legislators were rushing to pass laws to prevent airplane accidents, so I called one of my state Senators to learn how this would affect pilots in California and personal injury victims. What I learned may just keep me on the ground in the future.
“I would guess that the rule against using cell phones won’t apply to pilots, right?” I asked.
“Actually, it will,” the Senator said. “We still think it can mess up the navigational equipment. Radio transmissions will still be allowed.”
“What are you thinking about prohibiting?” I asked.
“Can you keep a secret,” the Senator asked.
“Sure,” I said.
“Well we’ve heard some pilots used to like to drink a little something on long flights,” the Senator said.
“You’re not saying what I think you’re saying, are you?” I asked.
“Yup,” the Senator answered. “No more beach parties in the cockpits. The rule against drinking margaritas will be strictly enforced from now on.”
“That’s good,” I said sarcastically. “I hate it when the pilot of my plane starts singing on the intercom.”
“What else are you thinking about prohibiting?” I asked.
“No more gambling, and no more card games of any kind.”
“They play card games up there?” I asked.
“They play all kinds of games,” the Senator said. “Poker, video games…we’re making a list that will be all inclusive, we hope.”
“So what else are you considering outlawing?” I asked.
“Well, you’d probably be surprised what pilots do now that they have all that food to themselves,” the Senator said.
“You mean the food they used to serve passengers?” I asked.
“That’s right,” the Senator said. “Turns out they’ve been having food fights up there and using the peanuts as poker chips.”
“Sounds like the fun is over” I said.
“We’re not prohibiting everything,” the Senator said. “But there will be no more spying on the passengers unless it’s for security reasons.”
“What do you mean spying?” I asked.
“Are you sure you can keep a secret?” the Senator asked.
“Positive,” I said with my fingers crossed behind my back.
“Well, you know those little air vents that you adjust to blow air on your seat?”
“Sure,” I answered.
“Lets just say that airplanes vents would do more good if they didn’t have little cameras in them.”
“You mean that each of those little vents are really cameras?” I asked. “I always wondered why they worked so poorly.”
“You didn’t hear that from me,” the Senator said.
“Aren’t you afraid of making the pilots bored if you take away their little spy tools?”
“Maybe they’ll have to put on some better in flight movies,” the Senator said.
“Just don’t let the pilots have a screen to watch them,” I said.
“Good point,” the Senator replied, and made a note to himself.
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July 13th, 2009 at 04:09pm
Under Education Law
As California’s financial debt, overcrowding and budget cuts eat away at the quality of education being given to students in California, and as the number of families grow who feel they can give their children a better education than is given in public schools, and without the influence of bullies and other disruptive elements in their children’s lives, there is now a significant number of children being homeschooled in California. California education lawyers and education attorneys throughout the State of California have been aware of this large segment for some time now in California.
From Palm Springs to Palm Desert, San Diego to Orange County, from El Cajon and Chula Vista to Anaheim, Irvine, Newport Beach, Santa Ana and Anaheim, from Santa Barbara, Ventura, Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo to Yorba Linda, Rancho Cucamonga, Moreno Valley, Ontario, Fontana and Fullerton, from Riverside and San Bernardino to La Quinta, Indio and Coachella, the number of children being homeschooled has created a significant number of households in California.
Therefore, when in February 2008, a California court ruled that unless one of the parents of a homeschooled child had a credentialed teaching degree, their children being taught at home were truant, it shocked the families of these homeschooled children.
This ruling was thought to affect 200,000 kids in the State of California. Protests were raised from parents of these children to the Governor of the State.
On rehearing, the same judges made an equally stunning reversal of their opinion. Judge H. Walter Croskey, of the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles wrote that so long as parents declare their home to be a private school, they can continue to homeschool their children, even without credentials.
Parents, especially Christian parents of homeschool children and homeschooling associations hailed the decision. Governor Schwarzenegger perhaps naively expressed his hope that this might settle the issue once and for all.
However, in his decision on the issue, Judge Croskey noted that while California impliedly allows parents to homeschool, California currently has no enforcement mechanism. He said, given the State’s compelling interest in educating its children, and the absence of an express statutory and regulatory framework for homeschooling in California, additional clarity would be helpful.
Parents of homeschooled children should realize that Judge Croskey’s opinion is an invitation to legislators to create statutes and regulations in this area as well as a mechanism to enforce the rules they set for homeschooling.A
s a lawyer who must constantly read new laws, parents should know too that wherever there are legislators, they are busy creating new regulations.
Governor Schwarzenegger’s hope notwithstanding, the court’s ruling did anything but abdicate the right to make further rulings. After first holding against homeschooling and then completely reversing course and admitting that it did so simply on an implied allowance by the State to allow it, the next court to review the subject could very well rule completely differently.
For the moment, however, parents teaching their children at home can breathe a sigh of relief. How long that relaxed atmosphere will last, however, will yet be up to the courts and the state legislature.
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