SF News Ninth Circuit Schedules Hearing On Trump Immigration Order For Tuesday Following DOJ Brief The Department of Justice filed its brief Monday afternoon on behalf of the Trump administration ahead of the 3 p.m. PT deadline at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco,
SF News Right-To-Die Legislation May Pass In California Legislature After All A bill that would allow terminally ill patients in California to end their own lives with help from their doctors has just passed through the state Assembly on its way to a state
SF News Another Terminally Ill California Woman Makes Plea For Death With Dignity As the California legislature moves closer to possibly passing the End of Life Option Act, which is modeled on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act of 1997, the organization Compassion & Choices has released
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Assemblyman Who Introduced Glove-Wearing Bill For Bartenders Now Proposing Emergency Repeal Dr. Richard Pan, the pediatrician and Democratic Assemblyman who introduced and passed a law last year in the California Assembly that will force all chefs, sushi chefs, and bartenders to wear rubber gloves
SF News Law Firm Putting On Another Event To Better Teach Landlords How To Evict Here we go again. The Law Offices of Bornstein & Bornstein and Bay Property Group have invited you to learn the art of kicking out tenants. There's money to be made and those
SF News State Supreme Court Says Gay Marriages Can Proceed The California State Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that same-sex marriages can continue despite an emergency request from Prop 8 supporters to stop them. "Backers of Proposition 8 had turned to the state's
SF News California Needs To Update Its Antiquated Rape Law Last week, a three-year-old rape conviction in Southern California was overturned by the Second District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles because the court ruled that the state's law would have only considered
SF News I'm Still Innocent, Says Convicted Murderer Scott Peterson Sentenced to death for murdering his pregnant wife Laci, who was carrying their unborn kid Conner, Scott Peterson still maintains his innocence. On Thursday, the charming Modesto killer filed for automatic appeal of
SF News Obama's Next Supreme Court Pick: Kamala Harris? Could California Attorney General and former San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris be the next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court? Maybe, says Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog who claims with certainty that
SF News What's Going on at Barry Bonds Perjury Trial? As we mentioned this morning, Barry Bonds is in court today to face accusations that he lied under oath way back in December of 2003 when he denied that he knowingly took steroids
SF News Gascon Already Accused Of Conflict Of Interest Just ten days after former Police Chief George Gascon was sworn in as the interim District Attorney, a lawyer at the Public Defenders Office is considering asking him to step aside from the
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 House Passes 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal The House voted today to repeal the U.S. military's ban on LGBT service. Wednesday's vote, 250-175,"propels the issue to the Senate for what could be the last chance for now to
SF News How Guilty, If at All, Is Johannes Mehserle? As the Mehserle closing arguments wrap up, on Thursday, the Chronicle reports, jurors "were told that the video-recorded killing during an arrest at BART's Fruitvale Station in Oakland was either an intentional act
SF News 'Christian' Group Can't Bar Gays At Hastings College Alleged Christian groups all over the U.S. have incorrectly and abusively attempted to use the First Amendment to commit balls out acts of hate and discrimination. Take, for example, anti-gay group the
SF News Closing Arguments for Prop 8 Trial Start Today Inside a San Francisco courtroom today, and after hearing 12 days of testimony in January, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will hear closing arguments in the historic Proposition 8 case over the
SF News Release Confidential Prop 8 Campaign Docs, Rules Judge Walker Get ready to see some dirty laundry aired. Today Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ordered gay marriage advocacy groups to turn over campaign materials from the election fight over Proposition 8,
SF News New State Law To Limits Patient Wait Time To See Doctor by Amy Crocker While national health care faced a set back this week with the loss of the 60th Democratic senate seat, California took a step forward. A new state law sets limits
SF News TMZ Reveals Maria Shriver's Illegal Activities Like a tightly-scrunched walnut, the fine folks at TMZ have cracked the case of California First Lady Maria Shriver's wanton disregard for public safety and that of her own. It seems Shriver was
SF News Prop 8 Must Release Records, Says Judge The people who sponsored last year's gay marriage ban must hand over certain internal campaign records to lawyers looking to overturn Prop 8. Turning down a request to block their super-special information from
SF News Drinking in Dolores Park Curbed? People are crying foul after SFPD had the unmitigated gall to hand out citations to people boozing it up in Dolores Park. Drinking alcohol in San Francisco parks, as most of you know,
SF News Death Penalty Upheld For Klass Killer Today, San Francisco's California Supreme Court made the decision to uphold the death penalty of Richard Allen Davis, the man convicted of kidnapping and killing 12-year-old Polly Klass at knife point during her
SF News Official Prop 8 Ruling Document Here it is in all of its confusing glory. In a nutshell, Rota Hao explains, it's because our constitution sucks -- even Mississippi has a provision in their constitution that says "you can't
SF News Johannes Mehserle's Murder Prelim Hearing Starts Today At 9 a.m. today, the preliminary hearing for BART officer Johannes Mehserle began. Mehserle is charged with the murder of Oscar Grant. The former officer's defense, most likely, will center around the
SF News Civil Rights Groups Ask Ninth Circuit to Reconsider Denial of Asylum to Gay Guatemalan After allegedly being beaten, sexually assaulted, threatened by a Guatemalan congressman, and chronically harassed by Guatemalan police, gay Bay Area resident Saul Martinez fled to the United States in 1992. Now, after years
