The lawsuit comes at a moment of heightened concern for immigrants and women seeking reproductive care. Once data leaves California, it can be accessed by agencies in states with different policies regarding those populations.
Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid that resembles other white, powdery substances such as fentanyl or cocaine. According to the DEA, it is 10,000 times more potent than morphine.
Smoot joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1994. Three years later, he helped found the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, which he later endowed with $500,000 from his Nobel winnings.
Attorneys for homeowners and HOAs say it will get rid of extreme cases where board members impose unfair and egregious fines to retaliate against homeowners they dislike.