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U.S. Supreme Court

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2013

    Marijuana Still Has No Medical Value, Court Says

    The United States Court of Appeals delivered pot smokers some bad news today, ruling that marijuana is a dangerous and highly addictive drug with no medical value. In a 2-1 decision on the medical marijuana reclassification case, Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2013

    Nudists, City Clash in Federal Court

    In a city where everything is political, is everything really political? What about cock rings? Yes, really. The city's indignant nudists have, quite literally, made a federal case out of Supervisor Scott Wiener's ordinance banning disrobing in most public venues. Today the nudists' and city's attor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2013

    Prop. 8: Supreme Court Sets Date to Hear Case on Gay Marriage

    Consider this your very own "save the date." The U.S. Supreme Court this morning said that oral arguments will begin on March 26 for the much-anticipated Proposition 8 case, which will finally bring some closure to the gay marriage debate that started right here in California over four years ago. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2012

    S.F. Asks Federal Court to Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Ban on Naked People

    San Francisco's City Attorney is attempting to block public nudists from taking the city to court over its recently passed nudity ban. City Attorney Dennis Herrera today filed a motion in federal court, hoping a judge would dismiss the nudists' lawsuit challenging the city's ban on most public nud ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2012

    Secret Donors Behind Arizona Political Nonprofit Group's $11 Million Are Revealed

    For two weeks, the Fair Political Practices Commission, the state's campaign finance watchdog, had been trying to get Americans for Responsible Leadership, an Arizona-based nonprofit, to disclose the donors behind the organization's $11 million contribution to an anti-Proposition 30/pro-Proposition ... More >>

  • News

    October 17, 2012

    The Big Veto: Our Governors Hate Inmate Media-Access Bills

    For two weeks, the Fair Political Practices Commission, the state's campaign finance watchdog, had been trying to get Americans for Responsible Leadership, an Arizona-based nonprofit, to disclose the donors behind the organization's $11 million contribution to an anti-Proposition 30/pro-Proposition ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 10, 2012

    Justice Is Ours

    For two weeks, the Fair Political Practices Commission, the state's campaign finance watchdog, had been trying to get Americans for Responsible Leadership, an Arizona-based nonprofit, to disclose the donors behind the organization's $11 million contribution to an anti-Proposition 30/pro-Proposition ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Advocates to Argue DEA in Federal Court

    Is marijuana a medicine, or is it a vitality-sucking, life-destroying devil weed? Cannabis advocates and law enforcement don't exactly see eye-to-eye on this crucial point -- but for the first time, a judge will be called in to decide.A federal court of appeals in Washington, D.C., late last week ag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2012

    Obama Officially Wins Health Care Debate

    Now is the time to take back all the really mean things you have said about Justice John Roberts. The very conservative Supreme Court Justice gave us a reason to think that thing just might be okay when he not only sided with the liberal justices on Obamacare, but wrote the majority opinion upholdin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2012

    The Pro-Gay Marriage Ruling Conservatives Should Love

    Men with Confederate Flag decals reading "Never Forget" on their gun rack-equipped pickups and a fondness for "state's rights" don't seem like the likely demographic to support same-sex marriage. Following today's unanimous ruling by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston that the Defense of Mar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Peter Magowan, Former Giants President, Among Romney's Top Bay Area Donors

    Californians would have loved 2002 Mitt Romney. That guy was the bleeding heart who pushed universal health care in his state; the conservationist who would attack a coal plant by saying "I will not create jobs that kill people!"; a man who signed a Planned Parenthood candidate questionnaire affirmi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Mitt Romney Visits Bay Area to Get as Far Away from Obamacare Debate As He Can

    ​While the U.S. Supreme Court debates the constitutionality of Obamacare over in D.C., GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has made sure to keep his distance from the debate -- literally. The former Massachusetts governor, who has been criticized himself over "Romneycare," traveled some 3,000 mil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Kamala Harris Says Arizona Can't Boot Illegal Immigrants from Country

    ​California has the largest number of illegal immigrants and undocumented laborers in the country. So it should be no surprise that California Attorney General Kamala Harris has joined the fight against Arizona's unfriendly immigration law.Yesterday, Harris filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Cancer Patient Booted from UCSF

    ​Angel Raich is busy dying. The famous marijuana activist -- who took the federal government to the Supreme Court of the United States for the right to use medical cannabis -- was, earlier this year diagnosed with an inoperable terminal brain tumor, a condition that causes frequent seizures as wel ... More >>

  • News

    February 1, 2012

    Prison Break: Realignment Inmates Enter Rehabilitation in S.F.

    ​Angel Raich is busy dying. The famous marijuana activist -- who took the federal government to the Supreme Court of the United States for the right to use medical cannabis -- was, earlier this year diagnosed with an inoperable terminal brain tumor, a condition that causes frequent seizures as wel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Feds Force Another San Francisco Pot Club to Close

    Times they did a-change.​Pressure from the Justice Department is forcing a fourth San Francisco pot club to close early next year, with a fifth closure expected soon thereafter.Market Street Cooperative -- one of the city's lowest-profile cannabis dispensaries, with a modest sign outside its 1884 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Does Your Woman Have Bad PMS? Tell Her to Smoke Some Weed

    Let's roll you a joint, madam​Recently, we wrote about a study which claimed that a majority of medical marijuana users in California are probably white men. Not included in the study was how many of those men were acquiring marijuana to placate their wife or girlfriend to cure the myriad of "wome ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Get Ready, Facebook: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss Will See Another Day in Court

    The Winklevii just love to litigate.​The Winklevoss twins, of Facebook history fame, have just delivered what is essentially a giant "JK" to the social networking site.Aaron Sorkin, we hope you're paying attention to this. By all accounts, Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss, the identical twins who say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    California to Reduce Prison Population by 46,000, Supreme Court Rules

    Mass exodus in the making ​Supreme Court justice have backed an order to reduce California's prison population by 46,000, a move that some are calling a "judicial travesty."At the same time, the state's overcrowded prison population is creating "injury and harm" to the inmate population, which is ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 11, 2011

    History Laid Bare

    Mass exodus in the making ​Supreme Court justice have backed an order to reduce California's prison population by 46,000, a move that some are calling a "judicial travesty."At the same time, the state's overcrowded prison population is creating "injury and harm" to the inmate population, which is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    DADT Repeal: With All Deliberate Speed -- Or None At All?

    ​The Week in GayThe repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is fucking mess, but I think there might be a way to fix things. If we act quickly. This is a real longshot -- and it's not guaranteed to work -- but we need get our hands on some mercury. Lots of it. A flock of Ibises in Florida has been rendered ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Judges Named For Prop. 8 Hearing

    ​A liberal, a conservative, and a moderate. An old guy, a middle-aged guy, and a sorta young guy. Sounds like the makings for a road-trip comedy. Could be. But it's definitely the composition for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' Dec. 6 hearing of the Proposition 8 case, which could determine the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2010

    Wronging the Rights

    ​A liberal, a conservative, and a moderate. An old guy, a middle-aged guy, and a sorta young guy. Sounds like the makings for a road-trip comedy. Could be. But it's definitely the composition for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' Dec. 6 hearing of the Proposition 8 case, which could determine the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    Appeal the Prop. 8 Decision!

    It'd be a shame if the reversal of Prop. 8 didn't have national implications...​There was talk on Monday that a "group of conservative leaders" were chasing around Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado, begging him to file an appeal on the Proposition 8 decision, since he was acting as governor while ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Judge Vaughn Walker Targeted for Impeachment

    Judge Vaugn Walker is not universally popular these days​ In an effort to undermine his Prop. 8 ruling, the American Family Association is leading a campaign to impeach Judge Vaughn Walker. The right-leaning pro-family organization states in a letter on its website that Walker should not have been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    What a Week in Gay it Was!

    Photo illustration | Audrey FukumanJudge Vaughn Walker gave Prop. 8 the pimp slap​Seriously, this was one mother fu**ing gay week! Can I hear a what what?You may have heard that Vaughn Walker, the gayest judge in the world -- even gayer than Supreme Court's new softball coach, Justice Elena Ka ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    The Week in Gay: Prop 8 Trial Slam Dunk! Elton is worse than we thought! San Francisco attacked by bad gay films!

    In the movies​Last night the Frameline34 film festival celebrated opening night with a premiere at the Castro Theater followed by booze and wine and liquor and drinks and dancing out in the avenues. Of course, not all of the films are bad...some of them have promise. Closing night features Jame ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2010

    SF Weekly Letters

    In the movies​Last night the Frameline34 film festival celebrated opening night with a premiere at the Castro Theater followed by booze and wine and liquor and drinks and dancing out in the avenues. Of course, not all of the films are bad...some of them have promise. Closing night features Jame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    Memo to Elena Kagan: Come Out of the Closet

    Elena Kagen's life as a -- ahem -- softball player shouldn't be a big secret​"She's a lesbian!" said Betty White over and over again on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. White was talking about a character in a Little Women parody but she might as well have been talking about Elena Kagan, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    School That Deemed American Flag Clothing 'Incendiary' on Shaky Legal Ground

    Higher-ups at Live Oak High School may be caught with their pants down, legally​Administrators at Morgan Hill's Live Oak High School who opted to send home students bedecked in American flag regalia on Cinco de Mayo likely ran afoul of the law, one of the nation's foremost constitutional scholars ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    The Week in Gay: Anti-Immigration Laws Bad, Anti-Gay Laws Good

    Your future drinking accomodations. ​ I'm just going to say this once - up front - and then I'm going to move on: The furor raised over the Arizona illegal immigrant law is interesting to watch from my queer perch. I understand the outrage. The nerve of one state threatening to restrict the ... More >>

  • News

    January 27, 2010

    A Higher Court

    The legal tussle between SF Weekly and the Bay Guardian rises to a new level.

  • News

    October 28, 2009

    No Justice

    Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

  • News

    June 17, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

  • News

    June 10, 2009

    SF Weekly appeals the Bay Guardian's big payday to a higher court

    Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

  • News

    February 25, 2009

    Guantánamo's Last Days

    America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2008

    Weekly to Judge: Time to Put Things Right

    America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2008

    Response from Village Voice Media to Verdict in Bay Guardian Lawsuit

    America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2008

    Ka-Ching!

    America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

  • News

    October 22, 2003

    Sounds of Silence

    ASCAP's legal threats kill a thriving local music scene

  • Film

    April 23, 2003

    Do the Right Thing

    Everything we know we've learned from documentaries

  • News

    January 1, 2003

    Guesses Over Guinness

    The regulars love to subvert the contest. It's yet another twist to the city's toughest pub trivia night.

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    Reversing Course

    A broad repudiation of Prop. 209 surfaces at Berkeley

  • Music

    November 18, 1998

    Riff Raff

    A broad repudiation of Prop. 209 surfaces at Berkeley

  • Calendar

    March 18, 1998

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    A broad repudiation of Prop. 209 surfaces at Berkeley

  • News

    April 2, 1997

    Bus to Nowhere

    Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help

  • Calendar

    February 19, 1997

    Unspun

    Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help

  • News

    June 19, 1996

    Dog Bites

    Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help

  • News

    September 6, 1995

    Dis-Lodged

    In which an exalted ruler is expelled his wife ostracized, their Elk brother banned, and the oldest active Elks lodge in the country findsitself in court

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