{"id":12944,"date":"2010-12-17T03:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-17T00:21:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T00:21:03","slug":"december-16-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/17\/december-16-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 16 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links: <\/p>\n<p>* John Howard takes a look at the anti-consumer MICRA legislation that <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=zcorfc789kh7kw&#038;xid=zclz1k21y2xyxp&#038;done=.zcorfc789l47kw\">Jerry Brown signed back in 1975<\/a>. &nbsp;The measure capped pain and suffering damages at non-inflation adjusted $250K and protected insurance companies over the rights of patients. &nbsp;Victims of medical malpractice in the state are left to virtually fend for themselves as it just doesn&#8217;t make economic sense for talented attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>* The California Supreme Court is going to let the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/12\/15\/BAIB1GR7QD.DTL\">top-2 election litigation go through the normal appeals process<\/a> rather than dealing with it directly.<\/p>\n<p>* The Bay Area Council has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayeconfor.org\/media\/files\/pdf\/CaliforniaChinaCleantech.pdf\">report out on Clean Tech<\/a> and entreupeneurialism. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Capitol Weekly takes a look <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=zcorfc789kh7kw&#038;xid=zcm4g2vdmldo6h&#038;done=.zcorfc789l47kw\">at the &#8220;rookie class&#8221; of legislators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* One South Carolina man is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/12\/74-year-old.html\">thankful for what the State of California did for him decades ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links: <\/p>\n<p>* John Howard takes a look at the anti-consumer MICRA legislation that <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=zcorfc789kh7kw&#038;xid=zclz1k21y2xyxp&#038;done=.zcorfc789l47kw\">Jerry Brown signed back in 1975<\/a>. &nbsp;The measure capped pain and suffering damages at non-inflation adjusted $250K and protected insurance companies over the rights of patients. &nbsp;Victims of medical malpractice in the state are left to virtually fend for themselves as it just doesn&#8217;t make economic sense for talented attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>* The California Supreme Court is going to let the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/12\/15\/BAIB1GR7QD.DTL\">top-2 election litigation go through the normal appeals process<\/a> rather than dealing with it directly.<\/p>\n<p>* The Bay Area Council has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayeconfor.org\/media\/files\/pdf\/CaliforniaChinaCleantech.pdf\">report out on Clean Tech<\/a> and entreupeneurialism. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Capitol Weekly takes a look <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=zcorfc789kh7kw&#038;xid=zcm4g2vdmldo6h&#038;done=.zcorfc789l47kw\">at the &#8220;rookie class&#8221; of legislators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* One South Carolina man is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/12\/74-year-old.html\">thankful for what the State of California did for him decades ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1153],"class_list":["post-12944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3mM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}