César Chávez Day title might be gone, but superior courts will remain closed on March 31.
SACRAMENTO — As Californians scrambled to erase César Chávez’s name and likeness from art, government and city streets, one change wasn’t so easily undone.Opinion: Cesar Chavez fall from grace is long overdue March 31, Chávez’s birthday, will remain a superior court holiday across the state.
But the state judicial branch has stripped away his name. Now, what was once César Chávez Day has been replaced with the markedly less lyrical pronunciation: “Closed pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure, §135,” the state law that sets court holidays. Similar changes have come up before — in recent years the state has recognized Native American Day in the third week of September, rather than Columbus Day in early October. Such holidays are paid days off for court employees and decided well in advance, so their immediate abolition can’t happen overnight. They’re set each year by the state’s judicial branch and implemented in every county across California as a matter of law. Chávez, the late leader of the United Farm Workers, has gone from civil rights icon to persona non grata in California practically overnight, over well-publicized allegations that he. His accusers include Dolores Huerta, who helped Chávez lead the movement, and said he sexually assaulted her and fathered two of her children.Dear Abby: I’d barely moved in when this debris got thrown into my yardPleasanton: Four-bedroom home goes for $3.3 millionWhy can’t the Oakland airport reverse its downward spiral?They want to open 700,000 acres to drilling — including land near Mount Diablo Oakland man charged with torching store for showing customers’ video of his brother being killed, authorities say
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