Calif. Court Upholds Local Law Protecting Grocery Workers
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Los Angeles law designed to protect the jobs of grocery workers. The state’s high court decided 6-1 Monday that the grocery...
View ArticlePhone Tax Revolt? Calif. Supreme Court OKs Class Action Against LA
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Taxpayers stand to receive up to hundreds of millions of dollars in telephone tax refunds after the California Supreme Court ruled to allow a class action lawsuit against the city...
View ArticleEx-Bell Officials Will Ask To Have Corruption Charges Dropped
BELL (CBS) — The eight former Bell city officials who are accused of looting money from the city will ask to have their charges dropped. Their lawyers will argue that a new California State Supreme...
View ArticleSupreme Court Allows Woman To Sue Over Headscarf Removal
ORANGE COUNTY (AP) — The Supreme Court will let a Muslim woman sue Southern California jailers for making her take off her head scarf in a courthouse holding cell. The court on Monday refused to hear...
View ArticleCalif. Supreme Court Tosses Gang Leader’s Death Sentence
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court on Monday tossed out the murder convictions and death sentences of a Los Angeles gang leader who authorities believe was the “shot caller” responsible...
View ArticleProp 8 Backers Say They Will Likely Take Their Case To Supreme Court
WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBS) — Hundreds of jubilant supporters of same sex marriage marched through West Hollywood Tuesday in celebration of the Federal Appeals Court decision that Proposition 8 is...
View ArticleSupreme Court Refuses To Overturn Ruling To Allow Baca Lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Attorneys for Los Angeles County failed to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn their ruling that Sheriff Lee Baca could be held personally liable for racial gang violence in...
View ArticleSupreme Court Sidesteps Profanity On TV In FCC Ruling
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Broadcast network executives breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the Supreme Court ruled against sanctions leveled by federal regulators over curse words and nudity aired...
View ArticleMayor ‘Heartened’, ‘Disappointed’ After Immigration Ruling
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was among several public officials who offered mixed reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s law targeting illegal immigrants on Monday,...
View ArticleOpinion: Overwhelming Victory For Obama And Holder In Arizona Immigration...
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision on Arizona’s sweeping legislation on immigration. Hailed as a model by right wing anti-immigration zealots, the law would have...
View ArticleOpinion: Supreme Court Deals Blow To Obama On Arizona Immigration Law
The United States Supreme Court has finally spoken regarding the Arizona immigration law, which has caused debate throughout the nation since the law passed in the Grand Canyon State. The decision was...
View ArticleOpinion: Obama Has Last Word With The Supreme Court On Immigration
One ought to analyze the chain of events that occurred since the Supreme Court called one part of Arizona’s immigration law constitutional. Obama, with all of his alleged power – and vindictiveness –...
View ArticleOpinion: Supreme Court Fails America On Health Care
On May 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed comprehensive health reform into law. The new law was called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. After more than two years of debate on the...
View ArticleOpinion: Obama Gets Another Big Win From The Supreme Court
Immigration and Affordable Care? Check and check! President Barack Obama won big this week. But the bigger winners are families that have already benefited and will continue to benefit from Obamacare...
View ArticleOpinion: Eric Holder Continues To Show Contempt Of Congress
In the second most interesting political story of the day to come out of Washington, D.C. yesterday, United States Attorney General Eric Holder was voted by the House of Representatives as “in...
View ArticleOpinion: Supreme Court Obamacare Ruling Lets Big Brother Walk In The Front Door
After the Supreme Court concluded that President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act is constitutional, it seems unconscionable that so many Americans are claiming to be in favor of the new law which...
View ArticleOpinion: A Doctor’s Opinion Of Obamacare
Last evening as I was just about to watch the local fireworks in our Chicago-area community, I ended up talking to two pro-Obamacare persons. As I recall, I didn’t bring up the topic. The pro...
View ArticleCalif. Supreme Court Reverses Death Sentence Ruling In 1994 Murder Case
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The California Supreme Court Monday reversed the death sentence of a man convicted of killing two women, including the mother of Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, in a West...
View ArticleOpinion: The Greatest Tax Ever?
Included in my mail on Saturday was a letter from my healthcare company. For the first time I can remember it was actually good news: my insurance company spent too little on actual health care...
View ArticleUC Argues In Favor Of Race-Conscious Admissions
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California is weighing in on the U.S. Supreme Court case over the use of affirmative action in college admissions. UC leaders on Monday filed a “friend of the...
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