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		<title>How Are Court Budget Cuts Affecting Trial Dates? Too Soon to Tell.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 23:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is too soon to tell if California civil trials will become an endangered species, as many have predicted, due to court budget cuts. After the governor announced yet another round of cuts for California courts, a San Francisco Superior Court judge told me civil trials will take five years to get to trial &#8212; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S.F. Superior Court&#8217;s Closure of One Law &amp; Motion Courtroom Will Lead to Big Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Newdorf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Effective October 3, 2011, San Francisco Superior Court is closing one of its two Law and Motion courtrooms due to budget cut backs. The new Law and Motion judge will be the Hon. Harold E. Kahn, to be located in Department 302 at the Civic Center Courthouse. Judges Peter Busch and Loretta Giorgi, who had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Jail Strip Search Policy Upheld by Courts Based on Record of Contraband Smuggling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Newdorf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 2010 &#8212; A federal appellate court has ruled that San Francisco’s policy of conducting a visual strip search for weapons and drugs before placing new arrestees in the general jail population did not violate the prisoners’ rights. The 6-5 ruling by a panel of judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn about the effect of the California Supreme Court&#8217;s Howell v. Hamilton Meats decision on valuing medical damages in personal injury lawsuits.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Newdorf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bar Association of San Francisco is sponsoring a seminar Sept. 28, 2011, on the effects of the recent California Supreme Court decision in Howell v. Hamilton Meats on personal injury litigation. Topics • The implications of the California Supreme Court decision in Howell v. Hamilton Meats for valuing medical damages in personal injury cases; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninth Circuit Sends Mixed Signals In Strip Search Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Newdorf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were three opinions written &#8212; a majority, concurrence and dissent &#8212; on the 2-1 Ninth Circuit panel that ruled against San Francisco on the constitutionality of its former jail strip search policy.  As the Legalpad blog said in its headline:  9th Plays Jail Strip Searches Left, Right &#38; Center.  Although on the surface, the Court did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninth Circuit affirms San Francisco&#8217;s victory in the &#8220;Fajitagate&#8221; case.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Newdorf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of San Francisco in a civil rights lawsuit dubbed &#8220;fajitagate.&#8221;  In an unsigned six-page memorandum decision issued July 23, 2008, Judges John Noonan, Sidney Thomas and Jay Bybee held that the City was not responsible for any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oral Argument Set In Ninth Circuit Appeal Of &#8216;Fajitagate&#8217; Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Newdorf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has calendared oral argument in the federal civil rights claims over a 2002 altercation between three off-duty S.F.P.D. officers (one of whom was the son of the assistant chief) and a San Francisco bartender and his friend. The media dubbed the case &#8220;fajitagate&#8221; because the fracas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninth Circuit Hears Oral Argument In Strip Search Class Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Newdorf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on November 6, 2007, heard oral argument in Bull v. City and County of San Francisco, a class action challenging the County Jail&#8217;s former strip search policy. Until January 2004, the San Francisco County Jail made an unclothed visual inspection for drugs and weapons of prisoners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiz Answers: Jurists&#8217; Favorite Theorists Revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Newdorf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Answers to the &#8220;Around the Courthouse&#8221; Jurisprudence Luncheon Quiz. (Find the Quiz by clicking on the &#8220;Around the Courthouse&#8221; Category on the right sidebar.) At the Bar Association of San Francisco&#8217;s First Annual Jurisprudence Luncheon, the all-star panelists identified their favorite legal thinkers as follows: Hon. Joseph Grodin &#8211; Cardozo. Hon. Stephen Reinhardt &#8211; Dworkin. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinhardt &amp; Kozinski:  The Judicial &#8220;Odd Couple&#8221; Take Their Show On The Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Newdorf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge Alex Kozinski reprised his role as Oscar Madison opposite Judge Stephen Reinhardt (as Felix Unger) in “The Judicial Odd Couple,” an entertaining lunch-time performance at the Bar Association of San Francisco. Okay, that’s not entirely true. The two Ninth Circuit jurists did engage in a lively discussion, but the actual title of the event [...]]]></description>
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