The city of Berkeley, its police chief and several police officers must face class action claims they attacked and arrested people who were peacefully protesting the city’s continued participation in a SWAT team training and weapons expo, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The University of California, Berkeley, on Monday agreed to alter its events policy to settle a
Read moreHomeless people who lost tents, sleeping gear and other belongings in encampment sweeps can team up to sue Berkeley, California, on claims of civil rights violations, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreAt a cozy watering hole in downtown Oakland, California, budding scientists wield an unconventional weapon to help fight misconceptions about their field of knowledge. Their battleground is a bar. Their ammunition: beer.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday dismissed nearly all claims in a $23 million lawsuit over violent protests that led to the cancellation of a speech by conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California Berkeley in 2017.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday dismissed with leave to amend a woman’s claims against the University of California, the city of Berkeley and a protester, finding her claims stemming from a scuffle before a speech by Trump surrogate Milo Yiannopoulos are either barred by the Constitution or state law, or because they lack mention of specific injury.
Read moreOverturning a federal judge’s ruling, the Ninth Circuit held Thursday that police at a California university used an appropriate amount of force while dispersing protesters from their encampment.
Read moreIn a victory for opponents of the U.S. Postal Service’s planned sale of the historic Berkeley, California, post office, a federal judge found Monday that the government could not prove a city ordinance blocking the sale is unconstitutional.
Read moreThe University of California, Berkeley, must face claims that it discriminated against conservative speakers like Ann Coulter, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday said he will likely toss a lawsuit accusing the University of California of failing to investigate a former UC Berkeley student’s reports of sexual assault, putting an end to the three-year-old case.
Read moreThe city of Berkeley is discriminating against potential buyers of the Postal Service’s historic downtown post office, a lawyer for the Justice Department told a federal judge at a bench trial on Monday.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed Thursday, for failure to prosecute, a 2015 claim that the city of Berkeley conspired to authorize a medical-marijuana monopoly.
Read moreProving that officials intentionally sought to suppress conservative speech at the University of California Berkeley last year won’t be easy, despite a vague policy that gives college administrators broad power to restrict speaking events, a federal judge said Friday.
Read moreA federal judge denied summary judgment Tuesday to the U.S. Postal Service and the city of Berkeley in their fight over the sale of the historic Berkeley Post Office.
Read moreThe city of Berkeley can’t dodge claims it tried to stifle homeless activists’ First Amendment rights by repeatedly evicting them from makeshift tent camps, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday appeared flabbergasted by the suggestion that an enclave of liberal political thought like Berkeley, California, has unconstitutionally persecuted its homeless.
Read moreA federal judge seemed disinclined to order a trial in the U.S. Postal Service’s now four-year legal fight with the city of Berkeley over the planned sale of its historic downtown post office, wary of claims the city is intentionally trying to diminish the building’s value and discourage buyers.
Read moreThe city of Berkeley, California, says it lacks the resources needed to house most of its 1,000 homeless residents this winter, despite a court order that it submit a full shelter plan.
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A sympathetic federal judge Tuesday refused to stop the eviction of dozens of homeless people from a 10-month-old camp on the Berkeley-Oakland border.
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