Legal
Convicted California Terrorist to Go Free
Sacramento-based federal Judge Garland E. Burrell has vacated the conviction of Lodi man Hamid Hayat, convicted in 2006, as the U.S. Department of Justice explained, “in connection with a series of terrorism charges related to his 2003/2004 attendance at a...
Gov. Newsom Signs ‘Unconstitutional’ Wildfire Legislation, Passing Costs to Ratepayers
The lawsuit says that the utility companies basically bought off Gov. Newsom and most of the legislators who voted for the law. The wildfire legislation that Governor Gavin Newsom just signed into law is being challenged in court for allegedly...
Gov. Newsom Signs Unconstitutional Bill Requiring Candidates’ Tax Returns
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 27 Tuesday, requiring candidates for U.S. President and California Governor to disclose their income tax returns in order to appear on California’s primary ballot. As California Globe reported, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed an...
California Bar Exam Leaked by California State Bar
From the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” file: On Sunday, the State Bar of California admitted that it mistakenly leaked essay topics for Tuesday’s bar examination to 16 law school deans last week. Then after discovering the inadvertent leak,...
Yolo County Murder Trial Reveals Back Story of Violence Against Women
Rohail Sarwar, a native of Pakistan, is on trial for the murder of Sacramento resident Junying Lu, 51, in a Woodland, CA massage parlor last August. Last Friday in Yolo County Court, the defendant did not testify but the first...
Journalist or criminal? Judge quashes more than warrant in Adachi leak investigation
Legally, it’s as if the warrant never existed Two weeks shy of executing a broad search warrant on the home and office of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott stood before cameras and a podium...