The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday refused to rehear an appeal over a Berkeley, California, law that requires retailers warn consumers about radiation from cellphones, despite one circuit judge’s scathing dissent.
Read moreFor the first time in 20 years, police in the city of Berkeley can use pepper spray on violent demonstrators.
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A pack of masked, black-clad anarchists attacked a small group of pro-Trump demonstrators during a right-wing rally in Berkeley on Sunday.
Read moreAn Oakland, California, woman has dropped her $23 million lawsuit against the University of California and city of Berkeley over violent protests that led to the cancellation of a speech by conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in February.
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Still smarting from FEMA’s decision to pull the plug on more than half a million dollars in fire management grants to cut down thousands of trees in the hills above UC Berkeley, the Regents of the University of California sued the government agency to reinstate its funding.
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The University of California and Berkeley police allowed violent, masked protesters to attack an Oakland woman with pepper spray for supporting conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’ planned speech at UC Berkeley earlier this year, the woman claims in federal court.
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In a 2-1 decision, a Ninth Circuit panel on Friday refused to overturn a ruling upholding a Berkeley, California, law that forces retailers to warn consumers about the potential health risks of cellphones.
Read moreA federal judge has refused Berkeley’s request to dismiss the U.S. Postal Service’s lawsuit accusing it of obstructing the sale of the historic downtown Post Office.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday played devil’s advocate in the four-year battle between Berkeley and the U.S. Postal Service’s proposed sale of a historic Post Office building, telling them to get ready for a trial in which he wants to see “witnesses up here being hammered and beat up, and blood on the floor.”
Read moreA federal judge Thursday dismissed without leave to amend a complaint that University of California Regents were deliberately indifferent to reports of sexual harassment at UC Berkeley.
Read moreOusted UC Berkeley law school dean Sujit Choudhry has dropped his discrimination lawsuit against the school, filing a notice of voluntary dismissal this week without explanation.
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