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- City of West Hollywood in Conjunction With the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Clerk Will Begin Historic Issuance of Marriage Licenses to Same-Sex Couples on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at West Hollywood Park
- Recent California Supreme Court Ruling to Legalize Same-Sex Marriages Goes into Effect WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- In a monumental moment in the history of the United States, the City of West Hollywood in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Clerk will begin to issue marriage licenses and perform...
- Research articles 2008-06-12
- Word choice spurs fight over gay marriage
- Reasonable people can agree that gay men and lesbians deserve the rights that have been afforded to heterosexuals, including the ability to engage in a legally recognized union. The problem with the decision of the California Supreme Court permitting gay marriage is one of semantics ("Calif. clearance of gay marriage...
- Research articles 2008-05-21
- After More Than 20 Years of Fighting for the Legal Rights of Same-Sex Couples, West Hollywood City Council Members to Join with Other LGBT Leaders to Celebrate the California State Supreme Court's Ruling to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
- Celebration and Rally to Take Place Tonight (Thursday, May 15, 2008) at 7 p.m. at the Intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and San Vicente Boulevard in West Hollywood WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Since its incorporation in 1984, the City of West Hollywood has been one of the most ardent...
- Research articles 2008-05-15
- West Hollywood's Groundbreaking Ban on the Declawing of Animals Upheld: News Conference to be Held on Monday, October 15, 2007
- City of West Hollywood to Begin Enforcing Ban on Declawing of Animals WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Yesterday, the California Supreme Court announced that it is refusing to review a decision by the California Court of Appeal upholding West Hollywood's ban on non-therapeutic declawing of animals. The City of West...
- Research articles 2007-10-11
- Top court won't review Boy Scout case
- WASHINGTON -- A Boy Scouts sailing group that lost free use of a public boat slip because of the Scouts' discriminatory policies failed to persuade the Supreme Court to take its case. The justices on Monday let stand a unanimous California Supreme Court ruling that the city of...
- Research articles 2006-10-17
- Environmental claims: excess/umbrella carriers may have to clean up after government-mandated orders.(Column)
- It is well-known in the world of environmental exposure that policyholders in all jurisdictions face environmental liabilities, subjecting them to costly administrative agency orders--in lieu of formal lawsuits--requiring remediation and abatement of contamination. Absent the filing of formal litigation, there has been a general...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Two blocked court nominees differ in styles
- WASHINGTON -- They are prominent faces in the Senate fight over President Bush's judicial nominations. Both are women and both are conservative. But Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown have come to the national stage with strikingly different backgrounds and legal styles. Owen, a Texas Supreme Court justice, is...
- Research articles 2005-05-20
- CA court holds Oakland predatory lending ordinance invalid
- ON JAN. 31, 2005, THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME Court invalidated the city of Oakland's antipredatory lending ordinance, ruling that the ordinance (Ord. No. 12361 CMS), is pre-empted by the California covered-loan statute enacted in 2001. The court concluded that in enacting statutory restrictions on "covered loans," the California Legislature has,...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- IN THE CAPITAL
- High Court Agrees To Hear Commandments, Prisoner casesThe U.S. Supreme Court has decided to review three cases raising important religious liberty issues.On Oct. 12, the justices accepted two lawsuits dealing with government display of the Ten Commandments and a third case challenging a federal law that requires prisons to respect...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Sea Scout case goes to high court
- Berkeley's refusal to provide a free municipal marina berth to a group connected to the Boy Scouts of America, which doesn't allow gay members or leaders, will be reviewed by the California Supreme Court. The state's highest court decided Wednesday to hear the appeal of the Berkeley Sea...
- Research articles 2003-03-27
- FTCR: FERC Admits Energy Ripoff but Davis Wants Consumers to Pay; Davis Should Reverse Support for Utility Bailouts
- SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Now that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has acknowledged that energy companies created the electricity crisis in 2001, Governor Davis should stop insisting that ratepayers pay the $45 billion cost of the crisis, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights FTCR said...
- Research articles 2003-03-26
- `Hotel conversion fee' valid, California court rules. (Exactions).(California Supreme Court )
- A fee imposed as a condition of permitting conversion of a residential hotel to a tourist hotel was not an unconstitutional taking of the hotel owners' property without just compensation, the California Supreme Court has ruled (San Remo Hotel, L.P. v. City and County of San...
- Research articles 2002-07-31
- Pacific Legal Foundation Says East Bay Municipal Utility District Imposes Illegal Race and Sex Preferences, Violating Proposition 209
- Business Editors SACRAMENTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 8, 2001 The East Bay Municipal Utility District EBMUD, headquartered in Oakland, is violating Proposition 209 (Article I, section 31, of the California Constitution) by imposing race- and sex-based preferences in contracting, four months after the state Supreme Court declared such policies illegal,...
- Research articles 2001-05-08
- Lawyers differ on effect of whistleblower ruling
- JUDY GREENWALD SAN FRANCISCO - A California Supreme Court ruling that gives whistleblowers greater leeway to sue their former employers for wrongful termination will lead to more lawsuits, say some attorneys. But other attorneys contend the decision in Richard Green vs. Ralee-Engineering Co. is narrow...
- Research articles 1998-09-14
- Lawyers differ on effect of whistleblower ruling.
- SAN FRANCISCO - A California Supreme Court ruling that gives whistleblowers greater leeway to sue their former employers for wrongful termination will lead to more lawsuits, say some attorneys. But other attorneys contend the decision in Richard Green vs. Ralee-Engineering Co. is narrow and not a...
- Research articles 1998-09-14
- Edifice wreck - issue on expanding convention centers
- The San Diego City Council isn't very happy with Richard Rider.His meddling has made the council stop its $200 million expansion of the city's convention center. The council had already started appropriating money to prepare for construction when the California Supreme Court stepped in. Rider, the 1994 Libertarian Party candidate...
- Research articles 1997-10-01
- Guilty by association. (California Supreme Court ruling against injunction)
- Addressing the root causes of crime is a long-term project, but residents of crime-plagued neighborhoods quite properly demand "freedom now" from the intimidating thuggery that inhibits their activities. In response, local governments have contemplated or experimented with such strategies as public shaming, longer sentences, large-scale...
- Research articles 1997-05-01
- Calif. insurers win suit over ERISA preemption. (Employee Retirement Income Security Act)
- Calif. Insurers Win Suit Over ERISA Preemption Insurers have won another round in their battle to establish that state unfair claims practices laws and the punitive damage suits they spawn are preempted by ERISA. The California Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that workers...
- Research articles 1989-01-09
- California Supreme Court Rules That Local Governments Can Adopt Stricter Gun Laws
- WASHINGTON, April 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence hailed today's California Supreme Court ruling that local governments in California have the power to enact gun laws that are stricter than state law. Specifically, the SuprWASHINGTON, April 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Brady Center to...
- Research articles 2002-04-22
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- ACLJ Pleased California Supreme Court Denies Review in Mt. Soledad Cross Case in San Diego
- WASHINGTON -- The American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ, specializing in constitutional law, said today it is extremely pleased that the California Supreme Court has denied review in an appeal involving a case challenging the constitutionality of a San Diego ballot initiative in which voters overwhelmingly approved a measure...
- Research articles 2007-02-22
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