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  • Battle over luxury Verdugo Mountains development spills into court

    Battle over luxury Verdugo Mountains development spills into court

    The latest chapter in the saga of a 300-acre development in the Verdugo Mountains revolves around surveillance cameras and native bumblebees. The developer is suing protesters for trespassing onto the property in attempts to gather evidence for why the land should be preserved. Nevada-based developer Whitebird Inc. has grandiose visions for the luxury complex known…

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  • Supreme Court leaves California CO2 rules intact, for now

    Supreme Court leaves California CO2 rules intact, for now

    Environmental advocates are cautiously optimistic after the Supreme Court left California’s nation-leading auto emissions standards in place — at least for the moment. The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge from Ohio and 16 other conservative states that aimed to strip California of its authority to adopt vehicle emissions standards stricter than federal benchmarks.…

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  • Supreme Court dismisses constitutional claim in California pollution case

    Supreme Court dismisses constitutional claim in California pollution case

    WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a red-state constitutional challenge to California’s special authority to fight air pollution. Over a dissent by Justice Clarence Thomas, the justices turned away an appeal from Ohio and 16 other conservative states, which asked the court to rule “the Golden State is not a golden child.” While Monday’s…

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  • Jay-Z denies anonymous court accusation that he raped girl in 2000

    Jay-Z denies anonymous court accusation that he raped girl in 2000

    Hip-hop megastar Jay-Z has emphatically denied accusations in a lawsuit that he and fellow entertainer Sean “Diddy” Combs raped a 13-year-old girl more than two decades ago. The complaint was amended Sunday in U.S. District Court in New York to add Jay-Z as a defendant after originally being filed against Combs in October. It alleges…

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  • Attorney General Keith Ellison shown speaking at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.

    Ellison, Democratic AGs prepare to battle Trump policies in court

    WASHINGTON — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is joining his Democratic colleagues across the nation in preparing to battle in court to try to stop Trump administration policies they deem unlawful. For Ellison, and fellow Democratic attorneys general, the past is prologue. They banded together to sue the first Trump administration more than 130 times,…

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  • Appeals court extends stay of judges order to build veterans housing

    Appeals court extends stay of judges order to build veterans housing

    The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has extended its stay of a judge’s order to build housing on the VA’s West Los Angeles campus, setting an expedited April hearing for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ appeal. The order issued Monday night ends U.S. District Judge David O. Carter’s fervently pursued goal to have…

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  • On homelessness, California and the Supreme Court largely agree

    On homelessness, California and the Supreme Court largely agree

    What does a small, solidly Republican city in Oregon have in common with California’s largest liberal enclaves? All breathed a sigh of relief this year thanks to the far-right U.S. Supreme Court. The court’s conservative bloc ruled in favor of the city of Grants Pass, Ore., in June, overturning a key lower court ruling on…

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  • St. Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse, St. Paul

    Cannabis lottery delayed as lawsuits sent to Appeals Court

    A Ramsey County judge has ordered Minnesota cannabis regulators to delay the first cannabis license lottery that was set for Tuesday morning. Judge Stephen Smith, after an hour-long hearing on four lawsuits filed against the Office of Cannabis Management, decided to delay the lottery to give four parties time to appeal to the state Court…

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  • Menendez brothers to make first court appearance in bid for freedom

    Menendez brothers to make first court appearance in bid for freedom

    Brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life terms without parole for the shotgun killings of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, will make their first court appearance Monday in a bid for their release after more than 34 years behind bars. The brothers will join the hearing in Van Nuys via video…

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  • Bahia Emerald may return to Brazil from L.A. after court ruling

    Bahia Emerald may return to Brazil from L.A. after court ruling

    For more than 15 years, one of the world’s most famous gemstones — the 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald — has been held in Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department custody, its ultimate fate uncertain amid more than a decade of discord, disagreement and courtroom wrangling. Now, a federal judge has ruled that the smuggled stone should return…

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