Year in Review Part 3: July
Dec. 29, 2020 at 6:00 am
A court of appeals issued a ruling that reversed a previous order forcing Santa Monica to change the format of its city council elections. Plaintiffs in the CVRA case filed an appeal with the California Supreme Court for a final ruling.
A man was arrested in connection with the arson of Sake House restaurant during the looting on May 31. He was charged with one count of arson, a felony offense that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison and a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years.
Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered bars and indoor dining at restaurants to close in most areas of the state for three weeks amid a surge of new coronavirus cases. The revised stay-at-home order affected 19 counties where nearly three-quarters of the state’s roughly 40 million people live including Los Angeles County.