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This was an unusual case because we were focusing on whether the defendants -- the proponents of Prop. 8 -- had standing, and the real question is whether the proponents are adequate representatives of the voters of the state of California. And the Supreme Court said that they are not. The Supreme Court said that they are private persons. They are not the same as public state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the Brown administration had appealed Judge Walker's decision to the 9th Circuit but said, 'By the way, we agree with the plaintiff, the challengers,' then the Supreme Court might have had a much harder time getting rid of this case. It might have had to reach the merits as it did in the Defense of Marriage Act case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When can same-sex marriages resume?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court gave the 9th Circuit Court 25 days before the appeals court has to lift the stay, or hold, on Walker's ruling. This period comes directly from Supreme Court rules -- whenever the high court makes a ruling, the loser has 25 days to file for a rehearing before anything can happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also has to decide how they are going to interpret the ruling. Gov. Jerry Brown ordered the Department of Public Health - which oversees marriage licenses, birth and death certificates, and other such documents - to advise the 58 counties of California to commence same-sex marriages as soon as the stay is lifted. Each county has to decide how they will prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Kamala Harris in a speech asked the court to lift the stay quickly: \"I am also calling on the 9th Circuit today to urge them in the strongest terms that they lift the stay and enforce the permanent injunction that Vaughn Walker outlined so that marriages can begin in California immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will the legal struggle continue in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether the lawsuits will continue. Someone with standing would need to challenge Walker's ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amar believes that only a county clerk could do so: \"The only scenario I envision is if a county clerk who feels that he should not be bound by Judge Walker's order, and that he is not controllable by the governor, from some conservative county wants to refuse to issue marriage licenses and goes to court and says he shouldn't be governed by any of this because he never had his day in court, he wasn't in San Francisco defending Prop 8. That's the only kind of individual or party left I could see to stand in the way.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nJane Schacter, professor of law at Stanford Law School, agrees that a county clerk refusal could restart the process: \"What I think will happen at that point, it would not surprise me if in some more culturally conservative part of the state, a local county clerk says, 'Well, I don’t think the governor had the power to order me to do this, I don’t think I’m bound by Judge Walker’s order, and therefore I’m not going to give you a license.' At that point, a same-sex couple may go to court to try to get that license and we may be off to the races with further litigation. Now, this really is a law professor’s dream. Will that be in state court? Will that be in federal court? Will it be about the scope of Walker’s decision? Will it be about the scope of the governor’s authority to decide what to do in these circumstances? 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Employers up and down the state now contribute a few extra pennies per hour worked toward training programs -- everything from health education to new parenting classes to English instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies must independently agree to allow classes at the worksite, and many firms are allowing them in both Los Angeles and the Bay Area. In the past two years, a growing number of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies -- Facebook, Cisco and Google among them -- have agreed to transform boardrooms into classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I visited a class at Google’s Mountain View campus, where student janitors were taking classes with a trained teacher and also working one-on-one with volunteer tutors who are Google employees. One student and tutor arrived early in the morning, an hour before their shifts started. 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It also specifies actions that would be considered retaliatory if employers do them within 90 days of a worker making a complaint, attempting to unionize or participating in a public investigation or hearing about working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB666&search_keywords=\">SB 666\u003c/a> (Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg-D Sacramento) would specifically address retaliation by attorneys, subjecting them to discipline or disbarment. 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That creates a very chilling, stifling element in the workplace,” he says. “I’m confident the majority of Californians do not want our economy to be helped through exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intimidation in Sacramento?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez says members of the legislature actually got to witness worker retaliation at a hearing on the issue in the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee, which he chairs, in March. Among those testifying were workers from Marquez Brothers cheese plant in Hanford. Shipping clerk Candida Venegas helped lead the effort to unionize the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We told our people, we’re going to go to Sacramento to show you guys we shouldn’t be afraid anymore,” says Venegas. “But then we were afraid ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venegas and Hernandez say company lawyers showed up to the Sacramento hearing and sat behind the workers, trying to intimidate them again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me make one thing clear,” Hernandez told the audience at the hearing. “I find it really ironic and outrageous that as we sit here today discussing employer intimidation and harassment of employees who seek to find justice in their workplace that these employers would hire high-priced attorneys to come out and follow their employees here today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venegas is a U.S. citizen, but she says she was standing up for her immigrant co-workers. 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But I’m pushing on,” he says. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, Arias filed a separate case claiming he was retaliated against when the dairy’s attorney, Anthony Raimondo, contacted immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to The California Report, Raimondo said “once all the evidence is presented, it will show that the retaliation claim is completely without merit,” though he wouldn’t comment on tape for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Arias says he’s pursuing the case because he knows he has rights, even as an undocumented worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Legislation against worker intimidation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now two bills working their way through the state legislature may encourage immigrant workers like Arias to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml#content_anchor\" target=\"_blank\">AB 263\u003c/a> (Hernandez-D West Covina) would raise penalties on employers who retaliate against workers to $10,000 per worker and make retaliation a misdemeanor punishable by jail time. It also specifies actions that would be considered retaliatory if employers do them within 90 days of a worker making a complaint, attempting to unionize or participating in a public investigation or hearing about working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB666&search_keywords=\">SB 666\u003c/a> (Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg-D Sacramento) would specifically address retaliation by attorneys, subjecting them to discipline or disbarment. Employers who retaliate against immigrant workers could pay a $10,000 fine and have their business licenses revoked or suspended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Hernandez say existing federal and state laws that protect workers from retaliation haven’t stopped employers from using the threat of calling immigration authorities to keep employees quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked 40 hours, you’ve paid me for 20,” says Hernandez. \"And when employers say, ‘You know what, if you keep bothering me and asking for this money, I’m going to call immigration on you.’ What does that say to the employee? It says to them, ‘You’re going to be separated from your family. You’re going to be punished at that level if you don’t work for free.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Business groups respond\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hernandez bill would require courts to permanently revoke business licenses from employers who retaliate against their workers more than once. That’s the part of the bill that’s getting a chilly reception from business groups like the California Chamber of Commerce and the California Wine Grape Growers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem here is that the remedy proposed is remarkably broad,” says Mike Belote. He’s a lobbyist for the California Employment Law Council, a group of the state’s biggest private employers. He says he doesn’t doubt that retaliation against immigrant workers can happen. But he thinks the Hernandez bill could hurt California’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If one of our very, very large employers, who may have tens of thousands of employees in California, and thousands of supervisors, if you have one rogue supervisor who engages in these practices twice, every license possessed by that business must be permanently revoked,” says Belote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, however, insists it’s a fitting punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a broader effect here: all the other workers that witness the abuse and then witness the employer getting away with it. That creates a very chilling, stifling element in the workplace,” he says. “I’m confident the majority of Californians do not want our economy to be helped through exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intimidation in Sacramento?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez says members of the legislature actually got to witness worker retaliation at a hearing on the issue in the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee, which he chairs, in March. Among those testifying were workers from Marquez Brothers cheese plant in Hanford. Shipping clerk Candida Venegas helped lead the effort to unionize the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We told our people, we’re going to go to Sacramento to show you guys we shouldn’t be afraid anymore,” says Venegas. “But then we were afraid ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venegas and Hernandez say company lawyers showed up to the Sacramento hearing and sat behind the workers, trying to intimidate them again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me make one thing clear,” Hernandez told the audience at the hearing. “I find it really ironic and outrageous that as we sit here today discussing employer intimidation and harassment of employees who seek to find justice in their workplace that these employers would hire high-priced attorneys to come out and follow their employees here today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venegas is a U.S. citizen, but she says she was standing up for her immigrant co-workers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arturo Rodriguez, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a>, said the entire state would benefit, should farmworkers feel free to come out of the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they have security, that means they are also going to invest even more so in the state by buying homes and buying cars and becoming a regular part of California’s economy and its future,” Rodriguez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal also calls for sophisticated border surveillance systems, including drones, fences and thousands of new agents patrolling the border with Mexico. That may have visceral appeal to some Americans, but a number of experts argue a quasi-military approach to border security can’t deliver on its promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of San Diego political science professor David Shirk is one of those critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A very significant percentage of undocumented immigrants never cross the border, because they never see the border, because they come here in an airplane or they come by other legal means and then they overstay their visas,” Shirk said. “You’re not going to solve that aspect of the problem by improving border security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirk said the system the United States has in place now has as much to do with employers hungry for cheap labor as it does with immigrants looking for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley Gives a ‘Conditional Thumbs Up’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Silicon Valley leaders are encouraged by the Senate’s framework for immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Lam, with the \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/\">Silicon Valley Leadership Group\u003c/a>, gave the bill a conditional thumbs-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The green cards, the entrepreneur visa and, of course, lifting of the H1B cap — all those things are really good. So, it addresses all the major concerns. We want to see details, so that’s of course my only hesitation,” Lam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/21/is-silicon-valley-losing-its-foreign-talent/\">Why Silicon Valley Is Losing Foreign-Born Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/immigration-reform-would-look-different-for-africans-and-afro-caribbeans/\">Immigration Reform Would Look Different for Africans and Afro-Caribbeans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dan Turrentine is vice president of government relations and business development at \u003ca href=\"http://www.technet.org/\">TechNet\u003c/a>, a trade group that includes Google, Facebook, Apple and Yahoo. Turrentine said the Senate proposal should increase the total number of green cards going to high-tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall it’s a thumbs up,” Turrentine said. “But there are things that we want to see improved. Ultimately the system has to be workable for our companies. Otherwise increases in certain numbers are meaningless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate framework lifts the cap on H1B visas for foreign tech workers and creates more green cards for engineers and scientists who get graduate degrees here. It’s unclear whether giving visas to one group will mean taking them from another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework also includes the first-ever visa for start-up entrepreneurs. But Craig Montuori of Politihacks worries Congress will add requirements like a master’s degree, which would be contrary to the intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell — these were all college dropouts,” Montuori said. “And there’s not a strong correlation between advanced degrees and entrepreneurial success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Wadhwa, a legal fellow at Stanford, worries the Senate’s comprehensive reform proposes so many things, it won’t win enough votes to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tech industry can’t look at this and start celebrating saying, ‘Hey we got what we wanted.’ There’s nothing clear cut in it,” Wadhwa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Silicon Valley lobbyists have signed on to comprehensive reform, but they agree it’s a fragile framework that could unravel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Early Opposition to the Bill\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people are already lining up to oppose the bill before all the details are hashed out in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond Herrera is the founder of the group \u003ca href=\"http://californiascrusader.com/\">We the People\u003c/a>. He opposes any legislation that would include a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American people do not stand with Obama, McCain, the Gang of Eight, either the Senate nor the House,” Herrera said. “These people are actually working to subvert our government, our way of life, our culture and we will resurrect the American democracy in the favor of the American people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/immigration-bill-filed-in-senate-opponents-hope-to-use-delays-to-kill-it/2013/04/17/2254c9a6-a74c-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html?hpid=z2\">Washington Post\u003c/a>, opponents of the proposal on Capitol Hill are “coalescing around a strategy to kill the bill by delaying the legislative process as long as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would provide the time and the opportunity to lard the bill with “poison pill” amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the immigration proposal of 2007 sank before it came to the floor for a vote, under the weight of unpopular amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama is urging fast passage this time around. Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says the hope is to have the Judiciary Committee open the bill for amendments in early May and get it to the Senate floor by early June.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., buzzing with the debut of his new organization, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/\">Fwd.us\u003c/a> (say: “Forward Us”). What is it exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/what-is-mark-zuckerbergs-fwd-us/mark-zuckerberg-speaks-during-a-press-co/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93966\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS1613_101560214-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a press co\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Zuckerberg and a handful of other Silicon Valley leaders have founded an immigration reform advocacy organization. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Gabriel Bouys/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been called a lobbying group, a political action committee and a super PAC. But it is not really any of those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s organized under \u003ca href=\"http://source2012.tumblr.com/post/25957855597/cts-explains-nonprofit-groups-a-k-a-501-c-4-s\">Section 501(c)(4)\u003c/a> of the federal tax code, which covers “social welfare” groups. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopici03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the IRS notes\u003c/a>, the law defines these groups very broadly: “An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting in some way the common good and general welfare of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 501(c)(4)s enjoy charity status, but unlike the more familiar 501(c)(3)s, they can get involved in politics as long as they don’t campaign for or against a specific candidate. And unlike PACs and super PACs, they don’t file campaign disclosure reports with the Federal Election Commission. They can take donations of any amount and spend as much as they want, and they’re not required to say where their money comes from.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what sorts of things can organizations like Fwd.us spend their money on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can lobby members of Congress. They can produce ads and buy air time. They can hold rallies and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what \u003cem>will\u003c/em> Fwd.us spend its money on? That’s not clear yet. We haven’t gotten hold of the group yet, but \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/fwd-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch quotes\u003c/a> Fwd.us campaign manager Rob Jesmer as saying “the group’s activities will include engaging the tech community in online advocacy, policy and fundraising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tech industry already has a litany of high-powered lobbying groups, so analysts are predicting it will take a different approach. On its staff are people who specialize in digital and grassroots campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fwd.us has not been clear about how it will spend its money, but Zuckerberg’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-immigrants-are-the-key-to-a-knowledge-economy/2013/04/10/aba05554-a20b-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html\">op-ed piece\u003c/a> in the Washington Post earlier this week explains why he and other Silicon Valley leaders launched the group. Fwd.us will advocate for \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/immigration_reform\">comprehensive immigration reform\u003c/a> to attract more innovative people. It will also advocate for education reform, with an emphasis on encouraging science, technology, engineering and math programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“We have a strange immigration policy for a nation of immigrants,” Zuckerberg wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-immigrants-are-the-key-to-a-knowledge-economy/2013/04/10/aba05554-a20b-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html\">Washington Post editorial\u003c/a>. “And it’s a policy unfit for today’s world.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fwd.us has two offices: one in Silicon Valley and one in Washington, D.C. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/silicon_valley\">Silicon Valley team\u003c/a> will focus on public outreach: the digital components and membership efforts of the campaign. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/washington_dc\">Washington team\u003c/a> is focused on advocacy and research, according to the website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s president, Joe Green, was Zuckerberg’s roommate at Harvard, and the pair created Face Mash (the predecessor of Facebook) together, Business Insider \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/joe-green-missed-facebook-opportunity-2012-5\">reported\u003c/a> last year. But, on the advice of his father, Green declined Zuckerberg’s offer to run the business end of Facebook. He went on to found Nationbuilder, a software platform that helps community groups or leaders organize online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/washington_dc\">D.C. office staff\u003c/a> is led by Jesmer, a prominent Republican strategist and former director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He and research director Scott Sloofman, the former deputy director of the Republican National Committee War Room, are counterbalanced by Alinda Garcia, who helped lead the Latino campaign for Obama 2012, and Kate Hansen, formerly of the Democratic Governors Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/our_supporters\">people behind the group\u003c/a> are almost all high-profile Silicon Valley leaders. They include Drew Houston, the founder and CEO of Drop Box, Reid Hoffman, the founder and CEO of LinkedIn and Ron Conway, a prominent technology venture capitalist, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fwd.us takes a step towards transparency by listing some of its top donors, though not how much each gave. 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