Articles in Civil Rights – Social Justice News
The Sacramento Bee – February 17, 2012
By Michael Doyle – McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Fake hero Xavier Alvarez lied to his fellow Californians.
He never rescued an American ambassador. He was never a Marine. Most definitely, contrary …
The Associated Press – Published: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012
DENVER — A federal appeals court in Denver refuses to get involved in a mortgage and real estate fraud case that raises questions about whether turning over …
The Seattle Weekly – By Nina Shapiro Tue., Feb. 21 2012
A decade ago, thanks to a class action lawsuit, Microsoft learned the hard way that it could not treat “independent contractors” exactly like employees for …
The Telegraph – By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent
Details of every phone call and text message, email traffic and websites visited online are to be stored in a series of vast databases under new Government …
The Bay Citizen – February 17, 2012
California lawmakers should phase out the state’s youth prison system and begin housing and treating all juvenile offenders in county programs, according to recommendations released this week by the …
Fox News – By Catherine Herridge – Published February 16, 2012
The FBI is getting in on the law enforcement app game on the heels of a controversial data mining project by the Homeland Security Department.
Documents …
By Cindy Carcamo, OCRegister.com
ROSARITO, BAJA CALIFORNIA — Keeping tabs on his U.S. citizenship application wasn’t much of a priority for Marine Cpl. Rohan Coombs when he served in the Persian Gulf War.
The aircraft maintenance specialist …
World Law Direct – This is a discussion on Assembly Bill 327 (AB 327) within the Law Wiki forum
California’s Three Strikes law is often criticized for its “one size fits all” approach in sentencing a …
The Los Angeles Times – February 7, 2012
The public-interest nonprofit Californians Aware has sued the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, citing more than two occasions in which the officials allegedly violated the Ralph M. …
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An inmate who says Chicago police officers tortured him into confessing to a brutal rape can present evidence of coercion that was denied at trial, the Illinois Supreme Court decided Thursday in …
The Washington Post – By Lonnae O’Neal Parker, Tuesday, January 31, 6:39 PM
As director of the criminal justice unit at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Swarns, 43, is one of the most prominent capital-defense lawyers …
The Los Angeles Times – January 31, 2012
Thousands of Riverside County workers have launched a one-day strike to protest the pension cuts imposed on employees after contract negotiations reached an impasse late last year.
Members of …
Los Angeles Times – January 30, 2012
Los Angeles County supervisors violated the law last fall by holding a closed-door meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown to discuss a plan to shift nonviolent state prisoners to county …
By JUDY LIN, Associated Press – Monday, January 30, 2012
(01-30) 17:41 PST Sacramento, Calif. (AP) –
Some state lawmakers want to ask voters to revise California’s Three Strikes law as a way to reduce prison sentences …
The Sacramento Bee – By Denny Walsh
A Sacramento federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional the part of California’s so-called Victims’ Bill of Rights that governs parole revocation.
The law, enacted by voter approval of a …
By Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times – January 28, 2012
A bill being drafted by a state legislator would limit local law enforcement from holding arrestees on behalf of immigration authorities seeking to deport them.
Assemblyman Tom …
By Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times – January 26, 2012, 9:07 p.m.
Echoing arguments that have repeatedly been made in Southern California courts in recent years, a city, its police union and a newspaper sparred before …
Mercury News – By Tracey Kaplan – Posted: 01/26/2012 07:59:38 PM PST
Ending an era in which criminal defendants’ constitutional rights were routinely jeopardized, Santa Clara County will now offer legal representation to anyone who can’t …
by Robert Weisberg – Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, Faculty Co-Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
he concept of a sentencing commission as a mechanism for governance of a jurisdiction’s criminal justice …
Justice is not a commodity that Californians can learn to do without for several years as the economy sorts itself out and lawmakers learn to become more responsible budget stewards. January 24, 2012
California government has …
