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- Burge Reparations Ordinance
Government Record · 2015
Chicago City Council
The ordinance created financial and nonfinancial reparations, with a maximum $100,000 payment per eligible claimant. It did not itself certify a final survivor count.
- Butte County DA: The Camp Fire Public Report (2020)
Government Record · 2020
Butte County District Attorney Michael L. Ramsey; joint CAL FIRE and Butte County DA investigation
Butte County District Attorney, 2020: the Camp Fire was caused by a PG&E power line arcing against a steel tower. PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 counts…
- Calabretta v. Floyd, 189 F.3d 808
Court Filing · 1999
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit held that a warrant is generally required to search a home, and that a child welfare visit is not automatically an emergency that…
- California County and Foster Care Agency Reach $13.5M Settlement With Six Abused Siblings
News Report · 2026
Associated Press
Six of the Turpin siblings settled with Riverside County and the foster agency ChildNet for $13.5 million after being abused again in foster care. The defendants…
- Camara v. Municipal Court, 387 U.S. 523
Court Filing · 1967
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court held that government inspectors generally need a warrant to search a home without consent, even for administrative inspections.
- Campaign Legal Center v. FEC (Correct the Record), No. 19-2336, Memorandum Opinion (D.D.C. Dec. 8, 2022)
Court Filing · 2022
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Federal court opinion (Judge Boasberg) holding that the FEC's 2-2 deadlocked dismissal of a coordination complaint against the super PAC Correct the Record and the Clinton…
- Campaign Legal Center v. FEC, No. 16-752, Memorandum Opinion (D.D.C. June 7, 2018)
Court Filing · 2018
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Federal court opinion upholding the FEC's deadlocked dismissal of straw-donor complaints over LLC contributions, including $1 million LLC gifts to Restore Our Future and over $12…
- Camreta v. Greene, 563 U.S. 692
Court Filing · 2011
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court threw out, as moot, the Ninth Circuit's ruling that interviewing a child at school about abuse required a warrant. The underlying question was…
- Canada Invokes the Emergencies Act to Limit Funding of Illegal Blockades and Restore Public Order
Government Record · 2022
Department of Finance Canada
The Emergency Economic Measures Order temporarily extended reporting rules and financial-service cessation duties. It was revoked with the emergency declaration on February 23, 2022.
- Canadian Frontline Nurses et al. v. Canada, 2024 FC 42
Court Filing · 2024
Federal Court of Canada; Justice Richard G. Mosley
The Federal Court granted the Cornell/Gircys, CCLA and CCF applications in part, found the emergency proclamation unreasonable, and found unjustified paragraph 2(b) and section 8 Charter…
- Carson v. Simon, 978 F.3d 1051 (8th Cir. 2020)
Court Filing · 2020
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Eighth Circuit opinion on a Minnesota state-court consent decree in which the Secretary of State agreed not to enforce the statutory absentee ballot receipt deadline for…
- Case Stokes Debate About Autism, Vaccines (2008)
News Report · 2008
National Public Radio (Julie Rovner)
CDC Director Julie Gerberding's March 2008 statement: the Poling concession concerned vaccines possibly exacerbating an underlying mitochondrial disorder and was not an admission that vaccines cause…
- CBD Decision II/11: Access to Genetic Resources (1995)
Government Record · 1995
Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
The treaty parties reaffirmed that human genetic resources are not included within the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
- CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide
News Report · 2025
404 Media
404 Media, August 2025: data from three police departments showed Customs and Border Protection regularly searched more than 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide. One department said it…
- CBS News: Laptop Data Copy Showed No Tampering (2022)
News Report · 2022
Catherine Herridge and Graham Kates, CBS News
CBS News, November 2022: a forensic firm it hired, Computer Forensics Services, found no sign the laptop data copy was altered, faked or tampered with, and…
- CCDH: Statement for the Record Naming Mike Adams (2021)
Document · 2021
Imran Ahmed, Center for Countering Digital Hate
Imran Ahmed, Center for Countering Digital Hate, November 2021: a statement submitted to a House subcommittee that names Mike Adams, Natural News and Brighteon among anti-vaccine…
- CDC Acts on Presidential Memorandum to Update Childhood Immunization Schedule (press release) (2026)
Government Record · 2026
CDC Office of Communications
Confirms: Dec 5, 2025 Presidential Memorandum ordered comparison with peer nations; Acting CDC Director Jim O'Neill signed the decision memo Jan 5, 2026; the U.S. was…
- CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (2016)
Government Record · 2016
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC, March 2016: national opioid prescribing guideline. CDC says it received more than 4,350 public comments, including from industry, and revised the draft after considering them.…
- CDC MMWR: Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Raw Milk (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC, 2025: reports a 171-case Salmonella outbreak from September 2023 to March 2024 tied to raw milk sold commercially. The agency's own investigation.
- CDC: Raw Milk (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC's consumer page, January 2025: says raw milk can carry germs like E. coli, Listeria and Salmonella, names higher-risk groups, and advises against drinking it. The…
- CDC: Uncovering the Opioid Epidemic
Government Record · 2024
CDC David J. Sencer CDC Museum Public Health Academy
CDC: nearly 500,000 people died from overdoses involving prescription and illicit opioids from 1999 to 2019.
- CDC: Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee Timeline (2024)
Government Record · 2024
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC timeline, 2024: the Tuskegee study enrolled 600 Black men, 399 with syphilis, without informed consent. They were not offered penicillin after it became the standard…
- CDC’s Ethics Program for Special Government Employees on Federal Advisory Committees (OEI-04-07-00260) (2009)
Government Record · 2009
HHS Office of Inspector General
The HHS Inspector General's December 2009 evaluation of CDC ethics oversight of advisory-committee special government employees, finding a 97% omission rate on financial disclosures and 64%…
- CDC/FDA statement lifting the recommended pause on Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine use (2021)
Government Record · 2021
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The April 23, 2021 statement lifting the pause after ACIP review, with updated fact-sheet warnings about thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, especially in women under 50.