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Appeals court backs limits on Legal Aid lawyers

Congress attached the rules in 1996 to the budget of the Legal Services Corp., which funds lawyers for the poor in civil cases. The restrictions, contained in each succeeding budget, prohibit the lawyers from filing class-action suits on behalf of ...

From BOB EGELKO, San Francisco Chronicle,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Congress,  Supreme Court of the United States,  Barack Obama

New law has judge reviewing immigrant fees case

U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson declared in a 2007 ruling that the plaintiffs - about 425,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador - had made a strong case that the U.S. government had no legal authority to charge them $80 for ...

From BOB EGELKO, San Francisco Chronicle,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Department of Justice

Oakland man on death row dies in hospital

An Oakland man who was sentenced to death in 1993 for the point-blank shootings of a man and a woman over a drug deal has died in a hospital, prison officials said Friday. Cedric Harrison was convicted of murdering Betty Thompson and her boyfriend, ...

From BOB EGELKO, San Francisco Chronicle,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Department of Corrections

Grape board's ads immune to legal challenge

California can require grape growers to pay fees for statewide ads that promote their product as a healthy alternative to ice cream and French fries, despite some growers' objections to messages that imply all grapes are equal, a federal appeals court ...

From BOB EGELKO, San Francisco Chronicle,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Supreme Court of the United States

Landlords pay $300K for evicting helper dog

That lasted until her Orange County landlords informed her that the 48-pound animal exceeded the apartment complex's new, 35-pound weight limit for pets. Warner said she had a doctor's note that recommended a dog for therapy and classified Nellie as a ...

From BOB EGELKO, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Nov 2009

Give in on same-sex benefits, judge orders feds

The federal agency that oversees benefits for government employees "shall cease at once its interference with the jurisdiction of this tribunal," Judge Alex Kozinski said in response to the Office of Personnel Management's rejection of his earlier ...

From BOB EGELKO, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Alex Kozinski,  White House,  Ronald Reagan

Ukrainian ex-prime minister's sentence reduced

Pavel Lazarenko was convicted in 2004 of using the banks to hide money he took from a Ukrainian government-run dairy and a former business partner. His lawyers argued that he has been punished enough by spending 10 1/2 years in prison and home ...

From BOB EGELKO, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Leonid Kuchma

Ruling favors married gay federal lawyer

A gay lawyer in the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles, denied government health coverage for his husband after their marriage last year, is entitled to extra pay to cover the cost of private insurance, a federal appeals court judge ruled ...

From BOB EGELKO, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Alex Kozinski,  U.S. Congress

SEC claims Tvia sales were misrepresented

(11-18) 15:05 PST -- A former executive of Tvia Inc. of Santa Clara inflated the company's revenue by $5 million by making side deals with customers and hiding them from company officials and auditors, according to the Securities and Exchange ...

From BOB EGELKO, San Francisco Chronicle,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Securities and Exchange Commission

Andrea Lewis - KPFA journalist - dies

Ms. Lewis, a program host and news anchor at KPFA-FM in Berkeley and a contributor to the Progressive magazine and other publications on the political left, died of a heart attack Sunday at her home in San Francisco. She was 52. Ms. Lewis, a native of ...

From BOB EGELKO, San Francisco Chronicle,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andrea Lewis,  Mother Jones,  Billie Jean King,  Barack Obama

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