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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
Life and Life Only

The Comments Problem – UPDATED

December 16, 2009
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I don’t know what in the world is going on with the comment issue. I‘ve (supposedly)...

Immigration & Justice • Sanity Breaks

Sanity Break: Feds to Stop Detaining Asylum Seekers

December 16, 2009
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Now for a short pause in my personal Lieberman-induced fury to put forth a brief Sanity Break: The...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice

Philadelphia’s Witness Protection Problem

December 16, 2009
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Threats to witnesses for criminal trials has long been a problem in urban centers, Los Angeles...

American Artists • American Voices • Juvenile Justice

Music 4 Babies Behind Bars

December 16, 2009
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On Sunday, December 20, a very interesting benefit performance is taking place at the Roxy Theater...

Law Enforcement • Social Justice Shorts • Supreme Court

Social Justice Shorts

December 15, 2009
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A CALL FOR CONSERVATIVES TO MAKE PRISON REFORM THEIR OWN In an enormously important Op-Ed in...

Courts • Free Speech

Do Students Have the Right to Be Mean Online?

December 14, 2009
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In the aftermath of the 2006 cyber-bullying case that led to 13-year-old Megan Meier’s...

Life and Life Only

Posting Late this Morning.

December 14, 2009
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Stories soon. Check back.

Life and Life Only

Roses After the Rain

December 13, 2009
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(Yes, I’m sure the neighbors did think I was a bit odd trotting around the yard in the early...

Crime and Punishment • Immigration & Justice • Prison

The Invisible New Face of American Prisons

December 11, 2009
75 Comments

In an excellent article in the current issue of The Boston Review, immigration reporter Tom Barry...

California Budget • Economy • Education • LAUSD • Unions

Are LAUSD’s Newest Cuts a Civil Rights Issue?

December 11, 2009
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On Monday, California lawmakers saw their pay cut by 18 percent. Instead of earning $116,208 a...

Media

Jack Weiss, Fred Roggin & Me—on Speed Dial

December 10, 2009
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name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Wednesday night I was on KNBC’s The Filter again, this...

Arresting Alex Sanchez • Criminal Justice • FBI • Gangs

Big News! Judge Real Taken off Sanchez Case!……No, Wait…

December 9, 2009
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Monday night the news was startling. Alex Sanchez’s attorney Kerry Bensinger learned that US...

Charlie Beck • LAPD • Los Angeles Times

Twittering Chief Charlie Beck With the LA Times – UPDATED

December 8, 2009
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(PHOTO NOTE: A bunch of people posted rainbow-over-Los Angeles photos Monday on Facebook. This...

Children and Adolescents • Civil Liberties • Courts • Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • Education • LGBTQ • Social Justice Shorts • State Politics • Supreme Court

Tuesday’s Social Justice Shorts

December 8, 2009
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name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> WHEN DOES RESTRAINING AND SECLUDING KIDS TURNS ABUSIVE AND...

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

Arresting Alex Sanchez: Part 7: The 9th Circuit & the Brief

December 7, 2009
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In the past few weeks, a new element has been unfolding in the case of Alex Sanchez. (For those...

Civil Rights • Education • Juvenile Justice • Life and Life Only

Kick-a-Ginger & Better “Demographics”

December 7, 2009
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Over the weekend, LA Times’ Sandy Banks wrote a column about the whole, incredibly creepy...

Media

Video Activism…and Pink Gloves

December 6, 2009
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name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Well, okay, they don’t have the dance chops of the kids...

Art and Culture

Liam Clancy – 1935-2009: Beat the Drum Slowly

December 6, 2009
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name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Bob Dylan once called him “the best ballad singer...

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