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#JusticeBriefs2025 • Uncategorized

SUPREMES Remove—at least for now—legal restrictions that prevent Trump administration from making immigration stops based on racial profiling

September 8, 2025
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AG Rob Bonta sues LASD for its “inhumane” Jails

September 8, 2025
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This Week’s Slap Down Ruling by the 9th Sends Government running to SCOTUS

August 7, 2025
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9th Circuit Slaps Down Government’s Attempt to Avoid Judge’s Temporary Restraining Order

August 5, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025 • ACLU

Federal Judge demonstrates the power of temporary restraining orders when the U.S. Constitution is violated

July 20, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025

Three Members of the LA County Sheriff’s Department Killed Friday Described as The Best of the Best.

July 18, 2025
LA County Jail • LASD • Social Justice Shorts

Quickie Must Reads

October 5, 2010
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HUNDREDS OF CALIFORNIA PROSECUTORS COMMITTED MISCONDUCT WITH NO SANCTIONS ACCORDING TO NEW...

American Artists • Media

Jon Stewart Unplugged: “I’m less upset by politicians than the media.”

October 5, 2010
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Jon Stewart was on Fresh Air on Monday night, with Terry Gross. The show was taped last Wednesday...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice

How Should We Punish Cyber Bullies When Suicide Results?

October 4, 2010
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When the body of the young Rutgers student, Tyler Clementi, was fished out of the water north of...

Elections • Immigration & Justice

Jerry and Meg and Immigration – UPDATED

October 4, 2010
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UPDATE: Monday, 11:17 am, it was announced this morning that Tuesday’s radio debate between...

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Friday Wrap Up: Drugging Kids, Health Reform, the LAPD and More

October 1, 2010
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AMERICAN JUVENILE FACILITIES NEEDLESSLY DRUGGING LOCKED-UP KIDS, INVESTIGATION SAYS In a year-long...

Immigration & Justice

Allred: Whitman’s Huz Made Notes on the “Never Received” SSA Letter

September 30, 2010
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Whitman’s statement that she and her husband never got the 2003 letter from the Social...

Elections • Immigration & Justice

The Whitman Housekeeper Kerfuffle (& Other Pressing Matters)

September 30, 2010
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Okay, so Meg Whitman’s housekeeper of 9 years duration turns out not to have been legally...

Education • Los Angeles Times

Talking About the Suicide of 5th Grade Teacher Rigoberto Ruelas

September 30, 2010
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The funeral for Rigoberto Ruelas, the Miramonte Elementary School 5th grade teacher who killed...

Life and Life Only

Rainbow Evening

September 29, 2010
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There was actually a very, very faint double rainbow arching over much of the western end of LA...

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Elections

Brown v. Whitman: Who Won?

September 29, 2010
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So who won Tuesday’s gubernatorial debate? Look, I admit I’m not terribly objective. ...

Death Penalty

Governor Pushes Back Execution, 9th Circuit Chides Judge

September 28, 2010
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Governor Schwarzenegger has pushed back the execution of convicted murderer Albert Greenwood Brown...

Civil Liberties • Civil Rights • Consumer Affairs • FBI • Freedom of Information

FBI Wants to Wiretap the Internet (It’s Worse Than You Think)

September 28, 2010
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As you may or may not have heard, the FBI is now very worried that bad guys are texting and...

Homelessness • Writers and Writing

The New Homeless: Rodger Jacobs, Part 2 – Moving

September 27, 2010
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On Sunday, the Las Vegas Sun ran the second installment of the story of LA writer, Rodger Jacobs...

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Monday Must Reads (3 Quickies)

September 27, 2010
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AN LAUSD TEACHER RATED “LESS EFFECTIVE” BY LAT APPEARS TO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE A...

Art and Culture • Arts

GLOW Santa Monica Happening Tonight, 9/25

September 25, 2010
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The event known as GLOW Santa Monica will take place Saturday night, from dusk ’till dawn (7...

Immigration & Justice

Colbert in Congress: The Press Corps is Unamused

September 24, 2010
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Members of the Washington D.C. press watched as Stephen Colbert testified before a congressional...

The Filter

The Filter: Critical Mass, RVs and Conspiracy Theories

September 24, 2010
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Here’s the latest segment of NBC’s the Filter in which Fred Roggin asks attorney Leo...

Arresting Alex Sanchez • Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • FBI

Details of Latest Alex Sanchez Hearing

September 24, 2010
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For those of you following the Alex Sanchez case, Tom Hayden has a story in the Nation that gives...

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