In a civil suit, like the one Paxton has filed, it’s much harder for one state to undermine another’s ruling, Berman said.

She also believed that a civil marriage would be valid only if it were held in a court.

It is a level of loss a Los Angeles community has not endured in recent memory — if ever — despite earthquakes, fires, floods and civil unrest.

The employees who work at the Department of Labor Statistics and other statistics bureaus are nearly always professional civil servants, their work normally protected from political interference by a number of safeguards.

“In October 2023 the prosecution team became aware that Mr. Baldwin intended to file a retaliatory civil lawsuit,” Morrissey said in a statement.