Subject: California Supreme Court

• Oakland Hyphy Sideshows Get A Supreme Court Reprieve, Sort Of

  July 31, 2007

• Medical pot can get you fired, court says

  January 24, 2008

• Last Night: Harvey Milk Bust Unveiling at City Hall

  May 23, 2008

• Summer of Love Redux Party @ CAV Wine Bar

  June 16, 2008

• Monday: Phelps Camp VS. Gays and Gavin Newsom at City Hall

  June 17, 2008

• Prop 8 Ad Wars: The Counterattack

  September 29, 2008

• State Supreme Court To Review Gay Marriage Ban

  The Supreme Court of California just announced that it will consider the constitutional challenge to the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, but it will not issue a stay, which means the state considers gay marriages illegal pending the outcome of the constitutional challenge. San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles counties filed a public sector litigation on Nov. 5 challenging the ban, which voters approved by a narrow margin on Nov. 4. -- John Geluardi

  November 19, 2008

• Campaign for California Families' Efforts to Intervene in Prop 8 Litigation Denied

  By Ashley Harrell The California Supreme Court's reentry into the Prop 8 war satisfied almost everybody. Yes on 8 and its supporters figure that the three new court cases, which challenge the legality of a same-sex marriage amendment to the state constitution, don't stand a chance. No on 8 and it supporters are glad they won't have to wait long for the cases to be heard. But one little-noticed decision by the court to reject the efforts of a non-profit group, the Campaign for California Famil

  November 20, 2008

• Marriage equality can be achieved by separating church and state

  June 3, 2009

• In Sickness and in Wealth

  May 1, 1996

• Opposites Attract

  Portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one) in Chris & Don.

  July 16, 2008

• The Gay Divorcees

  Gay marriage is new. Gay divorce isn't.

  June 4, 2008

• Barred for Life

  Desperate prison lifers turn to Charles Carbone when trying to navigate the unfair process of parole denials

  August 15, 2007

• Lawyers Behaving Badly

  Featured Stories

  July 18, 2007

• Attorney Privilege

  July 18, 2007

• Image Problem

  Why have SFPD Chief Heather Fong and Mayor Gavin Newsom pursued an overblown pseudo-scandal when there’s so much else on the department’s plate?

  January 3, 2007

• Echoes of the Revolution

  The struggle between Bay Area law enforcement and the Black Panthers is still going on after 35 years

  November 15, 2006

• Vote Nihilist

  August 9, 2006

• Baring Equality

  The cases of a young defendant and a repeat offender attorney show power and privilege tip the scales

  November 9, 2005

• First Proposition, Then Conception

  Take the initiative on the sticky question of parental notification

  November 2, 2005

• Sign of the Cult-Buster

  October 5, 2005

• Film Capsule Reviews

  April 20, 2005

• "I Do" Redux

  Do you subconsciously oppose gay marriage? Take our quiz and set your id free!

  March 23, 2005

• Finding His Niche

  Steve Bingham, a famously exonerated ex-fugitive who advocates for the poor, helps lead the charge against Care Not Cash

  June 16, 2004

• Street Shuffle

  Gavin Newsom's push to move the "chronic" homeless into supportive housing has made him the darling of the Bush administration's homelessness czar. But is there enough money to make it work?

  June 16, 2004

• Democracy in Suburbia

  May 26, 2004

• Finger-Clicking Good

  Why you have to see Bobby Badfingers finger-snap the drum solo to "Wipe Out"

  March 17, 2004

• Nailed?

  Lawyers for hundreds of sex-abuse victims have California's Catholic dioceses in a dire financial bind. Can church leaders finagle an escape, or are they ...

  June 25, 2003

• The Fix Is In

  At least that's what Janet Campbell claimed about construction bids at UCSF, where she soon found herself out of a job

  February 26, 2003

• As a Matter of Fat

  The city's new weight discrimination law is badly reasoned, legally defective, costly, and bad for public health

  January 17, 2001

• Killer, Junkie, Liar, Thief...

  ... so why not lawyer? How our political elite tried and failed to get a law license for sister-killing Eben Gossage.

  August 23, 2000

• Funeral Family Feud

  After decades of war, the Duggan clan of morticians are still giving one another grief

  July 26, 2000

• Battle Belli

  The international soap opera that surrounds the crumbling San Francisco landmark that was center stage for the incomparable "King of Torts," Melvin Belli

  April 12, 2000

• Dead Man Not Praying

  The state wants to deny religious counsel immediately before executions. But why?

  February 3, 1999

• Perverted Justice?

  Or is a new law that puts sexual predators in long-term psychiatric lock-up really -- and finally -- justice for perverts?

  June 3, 1998

• Press Passes Pass Away

  July 30, 1997

• The Grid

  February 5, 1997

• Where Crime Pays

  Is the DA's Office bungling the biggest pollution case in Bay Area history?

  October 23, 1996

• The Fire Next Time

  As a civil rights advocate, Bob Demmons called in the federal government to end racism in the Fire Department. Now that he's chief, he has to remove federal control and prove that firefighters can manage race relations on their own.

  April 3, 1996

• Prop 8 Advocates: Grandfathering Gay Marriages Akin to Letting Landowners Keep Slaves After Abolition

  One problematic book.Press releases gloating over today's California Supreme Court 6-1 decision upholding the constitutionality of Prop 8 (and lamenting the grandfathering in of marriages already performed) have poured from Prop 8 proponents into the inboxes of the media. All have been infuriating, of course, but the release from Liberty Counsel, the non-profit law firm that represents the California Campaign for Families, is downright ridiculous.  

  May 26, 2009

• 'A Pale Victory': S.F. Woman's '08 Marriage Still Legal -- But She Finds it Hard to Rejoice

  Moya WatsonWatson (on the right) and her wife, Leanne Waldal, are one of the 18,000 same-sex couples who remain legally married after today's court decision.San Francisco resident Moya Watson wasn't surprised when she heard the news about Prop. 8 while standing on the steps of the California Supreme Court this morning. But the court's decision that her 2008 marriage to Leanne Waldal remains legally valid still seems like "a pale victory."Watson and Waldal's marriage is one of the 18,000 performe

  May 26, 2009

• Extremely Civil Disobedience: Prop. 8 Protests Peaceful So Far

  Peaceful demonstrators shut down the intersection of Van Ness and Grove"Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face," Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1956. "But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime." San Francisco's 2009 version of the civil-rights struggle King waged fifty years ago saw plenty of smiling criminals arrested this afternoon. More often than not the cops were smiling, too.So far, d

  May 26, 2009

• Chron Helps Publicize Anti-Prop. 8 Rallies; Conservative Columnist Calls Foul

  Hmmm. What will I hate today?Conservative syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin is calling out San Francisco Chronicle political reporter Joe Garofoli for what she says is an inappropriate role in publicizing rallies in support of same-sex marriage.Malkin pointed out on her Web site this afternoon that Garofoli, in a blog on the Chron's Web site, has offered detailed instructions to readers on how to find protests today in the wake of the California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition

  May 26, 2009

• Chronic City: Medical Marijuana Group Gets $139,000 In Attorneys Fees From Garden Grove; City Spent $250K In Legal Battle over $200 Worth of Pot

  wikimedia.orgLeggo my indo.Will grass get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no grass? National medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) may not have to find out, as it just received $139,000 for attorney fees by the City of Garden Grove in a landmark medicinal pot case.Throw in the more than $100,000 spent by the City of Garden Grove fighting the state's medical marijuana law, and the L.A. suburb spent a likely total of more tha

  June 17, 2009

• National Rifle Association recruits San Franciscans to overturn gun-control laws

  October 14, 2009