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		<title>DOJ Sues Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Claiming He&#8217;s the King of the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Okay. You&#8217;re right.  That&#8217;s not exactly how the unprecedented lawsuit filed on Thursday really reads.
The legal action stems from the fact that Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio metaphorically gave the US Justice Department the finger for 15 months in a row when his office was the subject of a civil rights probe for racial profiling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh Picks: Faux Proms, Net Neutrality &amp; Fiscal Motion Sickness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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THE GUTSY LESBIAN GIRL, THE CREEPY FAUX PROM, AND THE SOMEWHAT HAPPIER ENDING
A new chapter just occurred in the case of Constance McMillen, the Mississippi teenager who made national news when she was forbidden to take her lesbian girlfriend to her high school prom.  (She was also forbidden to wear a tux to the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>138</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can Ted Olson &amp; David Boies Make History?</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2010/admin/can-ted-olson-david-boies-make-history/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2010/admin/can-ted-olson-david-boies-make-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Margaret Talbot of the New Yorker Magazine has written the story that I hoped someone would write with regard to the challenge to Proposition 8 that is being heard right now in a San Francisco courtroom (It began last week)  but that, as Talbot notes, is almost certain to eventually land in the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did Chino Staff Leave Men in Cages for Days After Riots?</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/prison/2010/admin/were-inmates-left-in-outdoor-cages-for-days-after-chino-riots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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[NOTE:  The photo above of the cage was taken by Michael Montgomery at Pelican Bay Prison, not at Chino.  But the Chino enclosures are thought to be similar.)
After last August&#8217;s 1300 inmate, eleven-hour riot at California Institute for Men in Chino&#8212;informally known by its location &#8220;Chino&#8212;CDCR officials congratulated themselves for how well they [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kick-a-Ginger &amp; Better &#8220;Demographics&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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Over the weekend, LA Times&#8217; Sandy Banks wrote a column about the whole, incredibly creepy Kick-a-Ginger day series of incidents that went on at A.E. Wright middle school out in Calabasas.
As is usual, Banks has written an insightful column in which she looks at the issue and the ensuing discussion around the matter from multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Murder of Dr. George Tiller</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Wichita, Kansas physician,  Dr.  George Tiller,  was one of the three doctors in the U.S. who performed late term abortions.  Yesterday, Dr. Tiller was shot to death as he was standing in the foyer of the Reformation Lutheran Church, preparing to serve as an usher.  His wife was with the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ted, David, Sheila&#8230;and Prop 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 08:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The decision has been handed down, the protests have begun, but one surprisingly cool thing has come out of the expected but wrong-headed and deeply saddening California Supreme Court decision on Prop 8.
The one-cool-thing is the news that&#8212;as the  the LA Times reported yesterday late afternoon&#8212;stupendously bright, hot shot constitutional lawyer, David Boies&#8212;the guy [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Prop 8:  Waiting for the Supremes &#8211; THE DECISION&#8217;S IN</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 07:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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UPDATE:

THE RULING:  PROP. 8 UPHELD
Very, very sad.  But very expected.
COUPLES EXISTING MARRIAGE UPHELD:  18,000 couples&#8212;36,000 people&#8212; who have gotten married, will remain married.

At least that is one small step for human beings.  Yet weirdly, 36,000 people will have a status that no one else in the state is allowed to have. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Social Justice Shorts</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2009/admin/social-justice-shorts-3/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2009/admin/social-justice-shorts-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Here are three justice stories.  One is about a lawsuit challenging bad prison policy, one about bad sentencing policy we hope will soon change, the third is about bad things being required of our LAPD officers.
And speaking of the LAPD, today is the service for Deputy Chief Kenny Garner&#8212;which makes it a sad, sad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City to Pay $12.85 Million in May Day Melee Settlement &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The first round of $$$ settlements&#8212;out of the several dozen legal claims that have come out of the May Day melee&#8212; was approved today by the Los Angeles City Council.
The Council voted to okay $12.85 million to be paid to a group of plaintiff&#8217;s injured by the baton wielding, &#8220;less-than-lethal&#8221; projectile-shooting officers who waded into [...]]]></description>
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