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On Thursday, Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, a coalition of Berkeley residents, won the right to sue UC Berkeley over the effects of increased enrollment.
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, UC Berkeley alumnae, were the first same-sex couple married in San Francisco 一 twice.
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Due to social distancing orders, the fate of the scheduled California Bar Examination in July is uncertain. State Bar of California board of trustees chair Alan Steinbrecher sent a letter to the California Supreme Court outlining two options to replace the exam.
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By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN, activist Yvette Felarca has filed a petition to the California State Supreme Court to reverse the order that she must pay over $11,000 in legal fees to former president of the Berkeley College Republicans, or BCR, Troy Worden.
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You may not have heard of Proposition 11. Or, if you have, it sounds like a no-brainer, an easy “yes” to mark on your ballot on election day. The California Official Voter Information Guide states that Prop. 11 will require “hourly employees to take work breaks for meals and rest,
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The initiative was removed from the ballot after a unanimous order, with the court asking for more arguments before deciding whether to place Prop. 9 on the 2020 ballot or strike it down permanently.
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On the eve of the University of California’s 150th anniversary, UC President Janet Napolitano addressed a range of issues facing the UC, as well as the institution’s past, present and future, in an hourlong speech in San Francisco on Wednesday.
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He greeted me with a smile that I didn’t think would belong to a man who has spent almost 20 years on death row.
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On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court heard arguments over whether a voter-approved initiative passed last November to speed up the death penalty process is constitutional. Proposition 66, a ballot initiative titled “Death Penalty Procedures Initiatives Statutes,” expedites the death penalty process by setting a five-year deadline for death penalty appeals
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Darnell Williams was sentenced to the death penalty Wednesday after being convicted on two counts of first-degree murder for the 2013 killings of 8-year-old Alaysha Carradine and 22-year-old Anthony Medearis.
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