NEW CALIFORNIA INTERMODAL LAW PASSED (CalTrade Report) WASHINGTON, DC - 10/17/05 - The American Trucking Associations (ATA) and its Intermodal Motor Carrier Conference are praising the new "trucking fairness" legislation recently signed into law in by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Bankruptcy law changes could stifle entrepreneurs (The Tucson Citizen) The new bankruptcy laws have left many small-business owners in a state of legalized confusion. According to research that appears in the most recent issue of California Law Review, owners of small businesses annually file 260,000 to 315,000 bankruptcies.

Tax law casts doubt on stem cell royalties / State may not reap billions promised to voters last fall (San Francisco Chronicle) The billion dollars in royalties that voters were told could flow to the state if they passed California's $3 billion stem cell research funding initiative in 2004 may turn into an empty promise. Researchers and business groups are raising a host of...