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Legal argument has just ended in the historic litigation challenging California’s discriminatory marriage laws brought by 12 couples, Equality California and our Families Coalition. Lead counsel Shannon Minter, Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, urged the Court to put an end to the irrational and discriminatory exclusion of lesbian and gay couples from civil marriage....
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 6:52pm PST
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Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 12:38pm PST
A California appeals court today denied a request by antigay activists to prevent California’s comprehensive domestic partnership law from becoming operative on January 1, 2005....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 10:55pm PST
Lawyers for both sides in the gay marriage issue will present oral arguments Wednesday in Superior Court in San Francisco. Ultimately the state Supreme Court will decide whether California's Constitution is violated by a law barring same-sex marriage....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 6:45pm PST
The San Francisco Labor Council and other injured workers and health and safety groups have called for a mass protest on Workers Memorial Day April 28, 2005 in Sacramento to protest the attack on injured and disabled workers and to demand single payer healthcare....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 2:42am PST
Great story about how local taxes drive up the cost of wireless phone usage....
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 6:41pm PST
The State of California has set an execution date of January 19th for death
row inmate Donald Beardslee. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted him
one more hearing, and there is a chance he could be saved from execution
there....
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 12:52am PST
Americans for Safe Access (ASA) has had a very active legal campaign in
2004. In addition to training over 400 public defenders in California on
current medical marijuana law, and providing critical legal information
to hundreds of patients, caregivers, public officials and attorneys, ASA
is assisting in and working on many pending cases related to medical
marijuana....
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 11:51pm PST
Dammit, he was our
surfboard. He carried us through the first wave and kept us all from
plunging into the undertow. Now, we must surf this dangerous sea of lies and
liars without him. The next wave is coming....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 9:08pm PST
The National Leadership of Service Employees International Union and Locals 250 and 399 today announced the results of a membership vote by both locals, approving a new constitution uniting them into a new statewide union with more than 130,000 members...
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 9:30pm PST
There is nothing to buy and no commitment. At the end of one year, if you take no action to continue the service, it will simply be discontinued at no cost to you....
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 4:47pm PST
Great story about holiday online shopping....
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 12:56pm PST
What's Next in California with regards to marijuana policy? Join us for a
Statewide Strategy Meeting to discuss legalizing, taxing and regulating
cannabis in California, and what's next for medical marijuana....
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 9:36am PST
New sales reignite timber battles
Bush allows harvest of larger, older trees in northern counties...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 1:48pm PST
Becoming independant from petroleum corporations will help save the environment, end the US occupation of Iraq and increase local community sustainability.....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 12:14am PST
Jesus wants me to receive support from the American experiment in freedom and democracy....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 8:16pm PST
Like some macabre parody of Barry Bonds chasing the home run record, police everywhere seem to be frantically seeking their 15 minutes of fame by sinking below yesterday's moral nadir.
Or maybe it's all just part of Taser International's "field testing"?...
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 1:05am PST
Authorities recently responded to a cruelty case in Southern California involving nearly 500 animals, including hundreds of farm animals, living in miserable conditions on one acre of property, and Farm Sanctuary needs your help to resuce these animals......
Posted: Fri, Dec 10, 2004 4:04pm PST