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San Francisco – The Livingston Union School District and the ACLU of Northern California announced today that they have resolved a lawsuit concerning the rights of baptized Sikh students to wear symbolic ceremonial knives – known as kirpans – to school. The parties described the settlement – which will allow the students to wear the kirpans subject to strict limitations on size and other restri... Read More

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Upholding the First Amendment right to witness California's executions, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled on February 28, 1997 that public witnesses - including the media - have a constitutionally protected right to observe executions."The Court has sent a loud and clear message that the California authorities cannot pull the curtain on executions. The public has a right to have repres... Read More

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Physicians and patients file a class action suit in response to Prop 215’s threat to punish doctors if they are found to be recommending medical marijuana to their patients. Read More

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that San Francisco's Mount Davidson Cross violates the No Preference Clause of the California Constitution. Read More

The State of California is prohibited from using the gas chamber to execute condemned prisoners. Read More

The California Court of Appeals rules that organized graduation prayers are not constitutional. Read More

The California Supreme Court establishes that the First Amendment requires a higher standard of proof and review to find libel, especially when the respondents are public figures. Read More

The California Supreme Court rules that the state cannot manipulate poor women's reproductive choices by funding childbirth but not abortion. Read More