Daily Business Report: Monday, October 27, 2025
Judge Set to Throw Out City’s Suit to Stop La Jolla Independence Push
By Scott Lewis | Voice of San Diego
A Superior Court judge has tentatively ruled the city of San Diego’s lawsuit trying to stop the Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO, violated the state’s anti-SLAPP laws and should be thrown out. The site lajolla.ca was first with the news.
The ruling is here.
Background: The Association for the City of La Jolla submitted signatures to start the process to make La Jolla its own city. If they got enough signatures, it would trigger LAFCO to commission an analysis of what the financial impact of such a split would be and how much alimony La Jollans would have to pay.
Trump’s DOJ is sending election monitors to California with voting on Prop. 50 underway
By Maya C. Miller | CalMatters
The Trump administration’s Department of Justice will deploy election monitors to five California counties on Election Day, the department announced Friday, in what it describes as an effort to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.”
The news comes as voters are already casting ballots on Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to redraw the state’s congressional districts to favor Democrats. Early in-person voting is set to begin this weekend in many counties.
Federal personnel from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will be sent to Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties. Harmeet Dhillon, the former vice chair of the California Republican Party and a Republican National Committee chairwoman, leads the division.
Evil ‘Polluter’ ExxonMobil Sues California Over New Laws Requiring Corporate ‘Climate Disclosures’
By Katy Grimes | California Globe
“Polluters” sue California over the state’s new Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, which requires companies with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion that conduct business in California to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the California Air Resources Board (CARB).
It’s another California climate shakedown given that the requirements would apply to approximately 5,400 companies, including Walmart, Apple, ExxonMobil and Chevron, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The “polluter,” energy company ExxonMobil, has filed suit in federal court challenging two California laws that would require the oil giant to report the greenhouse emissions resulting from the use of its products globally.
