Subject: Law

• District Attorney Files Criminal Charges Against Supervisor Ed Jew

  June 12, 2007

• Top 10 Protest Signs at No on 8 March

  November 9, 2008

• Shoot First: Mehserle Likely Only Bay Area Cop Ever Charged With Murder for On-Duty Killing

  Just like Johannes Mehserle, we can't give you a straight answer -- but the former BART police officer appears to be the first Bay Area cop to ever find himself charged with murder following a job-related shooting. Jim Chanin, a veteran Berkeley attorney who has prosecuted more than 20 police shooting incidents and is currently handling two in Oakland, couldn't recall a similar instance. The closest he could come was a policeman last year convicted of murder in Ohio -- but that man killed his pr

  January 14, 2009

• SF Weekly Letters

  November 19, 2008

• Train Wreck

  Major public transit agencies around the country — including San Francisco's — may pay billions for risky deals with bankers.

  November 5, 2008

• Double Bogey

  Muni's bogus tax shelter and theGuardian's bogus lawsuit.

  September 3, 2008

• First Offender Prostitution Program Punishes Victimless Crime

  March 5, 2008

• Gus Fallay Beats Bribery Rap, Wants Old Job Back at SF Department of Building Inspection

  January 16, 2008

• Open-air Crack Market

  February 28, 2007

• Stained Rep

  February 14, 2007

• Boycott Feinstein

  A new proposed law would put activists in jail for hurting a company's bottom line

  November 29, 2006

• I Wish I'd Written That

  Deceased journalist Joe Dignan led coverage of California's movement toward gay equal rights

  July 12, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, January 25, 2006

  January 25, 2006

• Let It Bleed

  Prosecutors' reluctance to charge murder suspects in S.F. leaves alleged killers on the street, flush with bravado

  January 18, 2006

• Legal Pirouette

  Marin County DA Ed Berberian switches his office's position, agreeing to Catholic Church demands to withhold sex-abuse documents from the press

  February 23, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, February 9, 2005

  February 9, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of February 2, 2005

  February 2, 2005

• Zipped Up

  S.F. Archbishop William Levada doesn't want the public to know about decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics. But why are district attorneys in San Mateo, Marin, and San Francisco helping him keep secrets?

  January 19, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  February 11, 2004

• The Tax Man Cometh

  The federal government looks to eliminate abusive tax shelters, and it may cost San Francisco tens of millions of dollars

  January 21, 2004

• Case Study: Ludrate Burton

  A jailhouse "snitch" fingered Burton for murder

  October 29, 2003

• Innocence Arrested

  Albert Johnson was exonerated for a crime he didn't commit, but not before spending over a decade in prison. Why guiltless people get jailed -- and how to stop it.

  October 29, 2003

• Sounds of Silence

  ASCAP's legal threats kill a thriving local music scene

  October 22, 2003

• Kamala's Karma

  She's smart, she's experienced, and she's running for DA. But she's Willie Brown's ex-girlfriend, and her opponents are trying to crucify her for that.

  September 24, 2003

• Son of Super Swindler

  The unsettling link between a group of firms that sell financial planning services to elderly Californians and one of the most notorious con men in U.S. history

  September 10, 2003

• Gimme Shelters

  After mortgaging our future in an orgy of budget-related borrowing, the Legislature hatches new orgiastic plans: sleazy tax shelters

  August 13, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  July 2, 2003

• Prosecutors' Patience Wears Thin With Levada, Mahony

  June 25, 2003

• Big Doctor Is Watching

  As of April 14, the national security police can monitor your medical records without your knowledge. So can the local police.

  May 28, 2003

• Girl, Interrupted

  Alanna Krause believes that much of her hellish childhood could have been avoided. Now she's suing her father, her therapist, and her lawyer in an effort to prove it. How did it come to this?

  December 18, 2002

• The Ghost of Scandals Past

  Previous "creative financing" debacles should haunt city officials who've approved a risky $1 billion lease of Muni streetcars

  April 17, 2002

• Law and Borders

  Prosecutors, judges, governors, a sex offender, and a woman with a penchant for poor judgement entangle California and Texas in an epic child custody war with two sure losers -- aged 7 and 9.

  November 14, 2001

• The Dilemma of Sara Jane Olson

  With an October trial in the offing, prosecutors had every intention of proving that Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson was a domestic terrorist who helped plant bombs under police cars 26 years ago.

  September 19, 2001

• Smoke and Smearers

  Potheads distort the record -- and endanger the justice system -- as they try to recall the Marin DA

  February 14, 2001

• Full Court Fathers

  February 7, 2001

• Patent Fight Pending

  December 6, 2000

• The Prosecution Rests ... and Rests

  After nearly 2 1/2 years, the embezzlement case against a Fire Department supervisor has still gone nowhere, and no end is in sight

  October 11, 2000

• Girl Problems

  The juvenile justice system is ignoring delinquent girls -- and creating a social time bomb

  July 19, 2000

• Officer Down

  Steve Landi was a hero at 101 California and a cop to his bones. Why is the SFPD trying so hard to get rid of him?

  June 7, 2000

• Babes in Toyland

  Two hackers piss off Mattel and spawn an Internet legal imbroglio

  May 17, 2000

• Genes Without Frontiers

  The so-called gene chip could revolutionize the way we treat cancer patients. That is, if biotech firms don't keep it out of doctors' hands.

  February 9, 2000

• Spy vs Spite

  The Clinton administration has praised the Anti-Defamation League for helping shield kids from Internet hate. But should a group that spied on thousands of Californians be allowed to police the Web?

  February 2, 2000

• "Fairfield Wives" Saga Continues

  Mormon doctor's conviction for sexual penetration with foreign object upheld; allegation of juror misconduct headed for court

  January 26, 2000

• For Pete's Sake

  Why giant corporations like PG&E bankrolled a juvenile crime initiative

  January 12, 2000

• Shaky Ground

  Environmental activists adopt a new strategy -- playing the race card

  January 5, 2000

• Benign Neglect

  There's a pot of money available to investigate real estate fraud, but Terence Hallinan isn't using it

  November 24, 1999

• South to the Future

  October 27, 1999

• TheirNameHere.com

  New domains -- including .store -- likely to multiply Internet trademark conflicts

  July 14, 1999

• Cothran

  June 16, 1999

• Duck, Duck, Suit: One SF Duck Tour Sues Another Over Trademarked Quack

  In November of last year, the SF Weekly published a cover story on the all-out duck fight going on between the city's rival amphibious tours, Bay Quackers and Ride the Ducks. Bay Quackers is the smaller, locally owned business that's been around about five years; Ride the Ducks belongs to the bible-kissing, Georgia-based corporate monolith, Herschend Entertainment Company, which owns duck tours, aquariums, and theme parks nationwide (including Dollywood!).  Herschend ha

  May 20, 2009