SF News California Supreme Court Blocks Anti-Tax Ballot Measure In Rare Move, Siding With Newsom and Legislature The California Supreme Court has struck down an anti-tax measure that had qualified for the November ballot through a signature drive, saying that it violates state constitutional procedure.
SF News How Jerry Brown Is Re-Shaping The CA Supreme Court: Unconventional Nominations The California Supreme Court, often cited as the most influential state supreme court in the country for its historic stances on issues like interracial and same-sex marriages, has just seen the most recent
SF News CA Supreme Court To Weigh In On Pot Dispensaries The California Supreme Court voted unanimously yesterday to consider both the continued conflict between state and federal authorities over medical marijuana, and whether local governments have the authority to ban dispensaries despite the
SF News CA Supreme Court to Issue Procedural Ruling Tomorrow in Prop 8 Case The California Supreme Court has announced that at 10 a.m. Thursday (tomorrow), they'll be issuing a ruling regarding the standing of the assorted plaintiffs in the appeal to uphold Prop 8. The
SF News Judges Inclined to Allow Prop 8 Appeal to Move Forward Today was another big day in court for the backers of Prop 8, who remain unhappy that federal judge Vaughn Walker did not agree with their view that homosexual marriage constitutes a horrible,
SF News CA Supreme Court Allows Cell Phone Searches Without Warrant The California Supreme Court made a controversial 5-2 ruling yesterday allowing police to search arrestees' cell phones without a warrant. This finding is said to be in line with decisions made in the
SF News Prop 8 NOT Overturned, Folks The interwebs exploded today. Why? Because people have mistakenly assumed Prop 8 was overturned by the California Supreme Court. The gay marriage ban was. In May of 2008. Sort of. See, it seems
SF News The Eve of Justice: Prop 8 Vigils Planned for Prop. 8 Supreme Court Ruling Next Wednesday, March 4, vigils all over the country will take place the day before the California Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the validity of Prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban that
SF News In His Own Words: Gavin Newsom On Same-Sex Marriage Separate Is Not Equal by Gavin Newsom Four years ago, when Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon and more than 4,000 other couples said "I Do" this country took an irrevocable step toward securing
SF News This Is the Trash That's Going to Win? Check out the anti-gay truck motoring around town today. Isn't it adorable? Fortunately for it, it lacks any "anti-oak tree" or "pro-Marine recruitment" signage, which would've really pissed off locals Bay Area do-gooders.
misc Automatic Weed Machine Somehow, we thought San Francisco would be the first one to sport these dispensers, but LA has beat us to the punch: two marijuana vending machines will be available for use starting Monday
Arts & Entertainment Kangaroo-Based Shoes (and More) Banned...for Now Viva (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals) filed the suit against the makers of the aggressively-colored sports shoes, claiming that they "oppose kangaroo products because...hunters mistakenly shoot endangered species" while going after the
SF News The Return of The Dog Mauling Case As entertaining as the Gavin years have been, SFist always kind of wished they were around for the Dog Mauling case, you know the one where a couple of Presa Canario dogs killed
SF News Odds and Ends Next up: Bush Ter Down! As promised, those wacky World Can't Wait kids tied up traffic on Market Street protesting the war. As our waggish commenters noted, it did indeed rain -- but
SF News No-Host Bar If this were an Evite, a bunch of people in San Francisco would be frantically changing their responses from "yes" to "unfortunately, something's come up," for Memphis, TN Democratic representative Harold Ford Jr.
misc Domestic Partnership Law Affirmed Sunny day! The California Supreme Court affirmed without comment the state appellate court's decision that the California domestic partnership laws do not violate the "marriage is between a man and a woman" Proposition
SF News Bye, Janice! Well, now that fourteen moderates in the Senate managed to resolve the fili-bunker-buster impasse of the last two years, Bush looks like he's gotten his way, at least with conservative ladies. (Conservative office
SF News Sympathy From California Supremes? Three estranged lesbian couples presented their cases to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco yesterday, seeking legal clarification [via The Legal Reader] on their rights as parents. Two women are seeking custody
SF News Let the Court Cases Begin Hearings began Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court on the legality of Same-Sex Marriage. On one side is the City of San Francisco, representing twelve plaintiffs who filed suitafter the California Supreme Court
SF News No Gun For You We must have missed this in the midst of all the Apprentice hoopla, but last week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors did what they do best- passed a sweeping, half-baked but well-intentioned
SF News The Legal Battle for Same-Sex Marriage in California Pushes Forward SFist wishes the plaintiffs great success at tearing down one of the most noxious legal forms of discrimination that are still on the books. For more information about the battle, go to Marriage
