The Santa Clara County Bar Association has lost more than half its revenue, shed hundreds of members and volunteers, and is facing a federal civil rights lawsuit, leaving it in serious financial trouble and unable to protect the public from shady lawyers.
The La Maravilla project, a 136-unit affordable housing development in the Mission District of San Francisco, is finally moving forward after years of delays, thanks to a combination of state housing mandates, local funding commitments, and sustained advocacy.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution protects the right of the people to form a militia, not the right of an individual to bear arms, and the Supreme Court's interpretation of the amendment is a fraud.
The California Court of Appeal has stayed the enforcement of a $26,000 contempt sanction against San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju, pending further action by the Superior Court.