SF News Federal Judge Strikes Down California Assault Weapons Ban, State AG Already Vows to Appeal The 34-year-old California assault weapons ban was ruled unconstitutional in a Thursday decision by a federal judge, but state Attorney General Rob Bonta insists the ban remains in place while he puts together an appeal.
SF Politics Raucous Rallies Outside Courthouse As Court Hears Appeal of SF Encampment Sweep Ban, But Gives No Decision Even Mayor London Breed was out shouting down the opposition at a Wednesday morning protest and counterprotest before an appeals hearing on the SF encampment sweep ban, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignored the protesters and rendered no decision today.
SF News Of Course Trump Wanted to Dissolve the SF-Based Ninth Circuit Court During His Presidency Released earlier this year, "The Divider" — a book co-authored by Susan Glasser of the New Yorker and Peter Baker of the New York Times — includes a revelation from former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that Trump said "let’s just cancel” SF's Ninth Circuit court in 2018.
SF News Ninth Circuit Court Ruling On Prop 8 Expected Tomorrow Morning Gay marriage supporters and anyone with an ounce of common sense and normal human decency are expecting another major turning point in the fight to overturn Proposition 8 tomorrow morning. The decision on
SF News Prop 8 Returns To 9th Circuit This Afternoon So, yeah. Prop 8. It's still being kicked back and forth around the courts like a bullied gay child on an unfriendly playground, and today it goes back to the Ninth Circuit Court
SF News SF Court Hears Case of Asylum Seeker, Debates the Meaning of Thanksgiving This week, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco re-opened a case that began in 2003 when Chinese emigre Lei Li was denied asylum by a Los Angeles immigration
misc Health Care Program for the Uninsured Dealt Blow After a federal judge blocked "a key provision of a new city program providing basic health care to uninsured residents, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is scheduled to petition the Ninth Circuit Court of
SF News Medical Marijuana Case Goes to the, uh, Highest Court; Massachusetts Gay Marriage Case Doesn't Meanwhile, the Court will hear arguments today in , a medical-marijuana case that started right here in the Bay Area. In 2002 Angel Raich of Oakland, who suffers from an inoperable brain tumor (among
