Court Stops San Diego Mayor Certicfication
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A state appeals court on Tuesday stopped the county registrar from certifying results of San Diego's mayoral election, hours before the deadline.
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A judge reinstated criminal charges Wednesday against a small-town mayor who got in trouble for marrying a series of gay couples last year.
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Local governments cannot bar nude  dancing clubs from staging simulated sex acts, a U.S. federal  court ruled on Monday.
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A judge yesterday cleared the way for a voter-approved initiative to become law that will deny some public benefits to illegal immigrants.
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The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a challenge from voters to the presidential election in light of last week's certification of the electoral vote and the upcoming inauguration.
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For 16 months, the whistleblower was ignored. Diann Shipione, a trustee of San Diego's pension plan, sent letters to the mayor, wrote opinion pieces in the newspapers and spoke to the City Council, warning that the fund was a ticking time bomb and that the city was the "municipal Enron."
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OAKLAND -- A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Oakland homeowners against the city's fire tax assessment district.   Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch last week ruled there was "good cause" to throw out the lawsuit.
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The City Council certified the results of a hotly contested mayoral election on Wednesday, and Mayor Dick Murphy was sworn in for a second term.
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A judge issued an order Friday barring attorneys from publicly discussing any aspects of the case involving the woman who was with San Diego Chargers linebacker Steve Foley when he was shot by an off-duty police officer.
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The League of Women Voters of San Diego asked a court Wednesday to require that all votes cast for a maverick mayoral write-in candidate be counted, including ballots on which voters failed to fill in the circle next to her name.
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A U.S. federal judge halted planned elections in Port Chester, New York, on Friday, after the government said its political system effectively denies Hispanics representation in the local government.
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A federal appeals court Tuesday blocked a judge's order that would have required the county that includes Jacksonville to install dozens of handicapped-accessible voting machines before the November election.
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A federal judge suspended a ban on two television ads in the governor's race until the court can decide whether the pro-GOP messages were wrongly blocked by a Democrat-controlled elections board.
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A Taiwanese court on Friday annulled the election of Chen Chu as mayor of the southern Kaohsiung city for violating campaign regulations.
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New York City health officials have  gone to court to stop a rabbi from performing a type of ritual  circumcision they believe may have led to the death of a baby  boy from herpes.
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Three voters asked a court Thursday to overturn the election of San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy and install a write-in candidate, contending that more than 5,000 ballots were unfairly thrown out.
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The state Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously rejected the Democratic Party's request that previously rejected absentee and provisional ballots be included in the hand recount of Washington state's contested governor's race.