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Paralyzed woman to take bar exam
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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The California Supreme Court has granted a paralyzed law student, excluded from taking the bar examination on a technicality, the right to take the exam. The State Bar of California refused to allow Sara Granda, who is paralyzed below the neck due to...
Tags: The California Supreme Court, Sara Granda, bar exam, taking bar, State Bar
Supreme Court upholds death sentence of man who killed seven at Sunnyvale high tech company
Newark :: NJ :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility The California Supreme Court today upheld the 1992 death sentence of Richard Wade Farley, convicted of killing seven co-workers and wounding others in an infamous mass shooting spree at a Sunnyvale high tech company. In a unanimous ruling written by Chief...
California court revives tobacco industry lawsuit
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility The California Supreme Court has revived a class-action lawsuit against the tobacco industry alleging its advertisements misled consumers into believing some cigarettes were less harmful than others. The 4-3 decision Monday reverses two lower court rulings...
Tags: The California Supreme Court, Block California Group Lawsuit, Philip Morris International Inc., Philip Morris Fails, tobacco industry, group lawsuits
Episcopal Church wins property case
Newport Beach :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Episcopal Church in a property dispute could influence a similar case in Fresno, where the local diocese broke away from the national organization. The state's high court unanimously ruled that three Southern California parishes that left the Episcopal...
Tags: The California Supreme Court, episcopals church, Southern California, U.S. Episcopal Church, James Episcopal Church, supreme courts, breakaway parishes, courts rules, Newport Beach, church property
Court to hear California gay marriage case
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear a challenge to a voter-passed measure that would outlaw same-sex marriages in the state. The court did not allow counties to resume issuing marriage licenses to gay couples while the case is heard.
Tags: The California Supreme Court, gay marriage, marriage ban, State Supreme Court, sex marriage, legal challenging, court agreed, gay couples
California doctors lose gay discrimination case
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Doctors in California may not discriminate against gay patients on the basis of their religious beliefs, the state's supreme court ruled on Monday. The California Supreme Court decision overturned a lower court ruling in favor of two Christian doctors...
Tags: The California Supreme Court, court rules, religious beliefs, Say Calif, sexual orientation, artificial insemination, State Supreme Court, religious grounds, unanimously decision
Calif. high court refuses to hear gay marriage ballot case
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The California Supreme Court has refused to hear a case seeking to keep an initiative that would ban gay marriage off the November ballot. The justices' decision not to take up the case means Proposition 8 will stay on the ballot barring further legal...
Tags: california, marriage, same-sex, The California Supreme Court, gay, voters, sex marriage, legal action, marriage ban, gay marriage
Court refuses to stay gay marriage ruling
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility California's highest court on Wednesday refused to stay its decision legalising same-sex marriage in the state, clearing the final hurdle for gay couples to start tying the knot this month. Conservative religious and legal groups had asked the California...
Tags: marriage, same-sex, gay, The California Supreme Court, Campaign for California Families, sex marriage, San Francisco Civic Center, gay marriage, marriage licenses
Calif. Supreme Court ruling favors timber company
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The California Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Northern California timber company that seeks to clear-cut more than 1,000 acres in the Sierra foothills. Sierra Pacific Industries, California's largest private landowner, has indicated it wants to...
Tags: The California Supreme Court, California Air Resources Board, Northern California
Calif. Firms Can Fire Medical Marijuana Users
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Jan. 24 -- The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that employers can fire workers who test positive for marijuana even if they have a note from a doctor recommending its use for medical reasons. The 5 to 2 ruling came in a state that was the
Tags: medical, california, marijuana, The California Supreme Court, pot, medical marijuana, court ruling, fired workers, medical pot
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