Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
A California court ruling cleared the way for cutting down a grove of mature oak trees beside a university football stadium in Berkeley.
Holly's Fight for Justice (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Sex assaults that leave victims pregnant can warrant tougher penalties, court rules The California Supreme Court decides unanimously that such pregnancies may amount to 'great bodily injury,' and offenders can get a more severe sentence. By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 29, 2008 A sexual assault that leaves a victim pregnant may be punished more severely...
HOLLY'S FIGHT TO STOP VIOLENCE (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
The California Supreme Court decides unanimously that such pregnancies may amount to 'great bodily injury,' and offenders can get a more severe sentence. By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 29, 2008 A sexual assault that leaves a victim pregnant may be punished more severely than one that does not result in pregnancy, the California Supreme Court...
Leonard Link (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Bronx Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings has rejected a legal challenge to Governor David Paterson’s directive that state agencies recognize same-sex marriages that were contracted outside of New York State. Her September 2 ruling, giving controlling effect to an upstate...
CrimProf Blog (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
A sexual assault that leaves a victim pregnant may be punished more severely than one that does not result in pregnancy, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday. The state high court said a pregnancy may be considered "great bodily...
Some Have Hats (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Thank God this wrong has been corrected:In June 2007, California became the first state in the country to offer “conjugal visits” for homosexual inmates in state prisons. Now, reports Sacramento’s Capitol Weekly, prison authorities are working on regulations that would...
Yarn-A-Go-Go (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... too. 3. It's that easy, and that's the bottom line. This line of simple reasoning is why the California Supreme Court is allowing Lala and I to get married today. His bumper sticker was hateful. I understand that he has the freedom of speech, natch, and I don't argue that I want it taken off his bumper. He's got every right. But what an ass. He probably doesn't even get that...
RenewAmerica columns (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
(Tom Kovach) - This column series began less than three months ago with a challenge to readers. If an earthquake followed the lightning storm that triggered the wildfires in Northern California back in mid-June, then that series of events matched the description in Revelation 8:5 of the fire thrown from Heaven just before the start of The Tribulation...
CrimProf Blog (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
The Post-Conviction Justice Project at USC Law recently prevailed in a defining case for the California parole system for long-time client Sandra Davis-Lawrence. USC Law students argued – and the California Supreme Court agreed – that a life-term prisoner is...
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Wednesday, June 08, 2005 (this is old but a goodie) Obama and the KKK's Byrd both issue racist vote on Brown... Barack Obama and Robert Byrd both excercised their right to vote as United States Senators late Wednesday afternoon in the vote to confirm Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. District Court of Appeals. And even though there was a day when the former Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan would...
Out in Hollywood (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Tony winners Sara Ramirez ("Spamalot") and Tyne Daly ("Gypsy") joined fellow straight allies Amy Brennaman , Christine Lahti , Dolores Huerta , Camryn Manheim , Melonie Diaz , Sally Kirkland and Carolyn Hennesy in the "Stop the Hate, Vote No on 8". campaign by making a series of public service announcements in support of same-sex marriage in California. Also in the spots are out actors Wilson...
Brutally Honest (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... P. “Bill” Clark, also known as Judge Clark. Clark, now 76 years old, living in Paso Robles, California, was Ronald Reagan’s confidant, closest aide, and the single most important adviser in the effort to take down the Soviet Union. He was widely heralded from the left to the right, from the likes of Lou Cannon to Cap Weinberger to Edmund Morris to Mike Reagan to Maureen Dowd. But before...
Opinion L.A. (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
... to their personal beliefs. Unfortunately, he doesn't try to reconcile his views with the recent California Supreme Court decision barring health-care personnel from refusing to perform procedures for gays or lesbians that run counter to their personal beliefs, most notably artificial insemination. Maybe next time. Over in the editorial stack, the board urges the White House...
