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Berkeley

Civil Rights Courts 

Milo Riot

June 4, 2018 BRIEF
Assault, battery, Berkeley, University of California

A 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.

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Appeals Civil Rights 

Occupy Protesters Lose Case Against Campus Cops

May 31, 2018June 1, 2018 MATTHEW RENDA
Berkeley, California, college, Excessive Force, Ninth Circuit, Police, protests

Overturning 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.

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Courts Government 

Judge Finds No Issue in Bid to Block Sale of Historic Post Office

May 14, 2018 MARIA DINZEO
Berkeley, history, Real Estate, U.S. Postal Service

In 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.

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Civil Rights Courts Education 

Discrimination Lawsuit Against UC Berkeley Allowed to Proceed

April 25, 2018April 27, 2018 NICHOLAS IOVINO
Berkeley, Conservatives, discrimination, First Amendment, Free Speech, higher education, speeches, University of California

The University of California, Berkeley, must face claims that it discriminated against conservative speakers like Ann Coulter, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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Courts Education 

University of California Likely to Duck Suit Over Assaults

April 4, 2018April 5, 2018 HELEN CHRISTOPHI
Berkeley, campus sex assault, college, Title IX, University of California

A 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.

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Government Law Trials 

Judge Holds Bench Trial in Dispute Over Historic Post Office

April 2, 2018April 3, 2018 MARIA DINZEO
Berkeley, California, Real Estate, U.S. Postal Service

The 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.

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Civil Rights Courts 

Death During Arrest

March 23, 2018 BRIEF
Berkeley, disability, Police, Wrongful Death

A federal judge ruled Friday that the father of a transgender woman who died while being arrested lacks evidence to show the arresting officers violated the Americans with Disabilities Act – the only claim remaining from the lawsuit following her death in 2013.

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Business Government 

No Marijuana Monopoly

March 2, 2018March 2, 2018 ROBERT KAHN
antitrust, Berkeley, marijuana

A federal judge dismissed Thursday, for failure to prosecute, a 2015 claim that the city of Berkeley conspired to authorize a medical-marijuana monopoly.

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Civil Rights Courts 

Conservatives Face Tough Slog in UC Berkeley Free-Speech Fight

February 16, 2018February 20, 2018 NICHOLAS IOVINO
Berkeley, Conservatives, Free Speech, higher education, University of California

Proving 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.

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Government 

USA v. Berkeley

January 25, 2018January 25, 2018 ROBERT KAHN
Berkeley, U.S. Postal Service

A 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.

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Civil Rights Courts Regional 

Berkeley Can’t Duck Homeless Activists’ Retaliation Claims

January 19, 2018January 22, 2018 NICHOLAS IOVINO
Berkeley, California, homeless

The 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. 

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Civil Rights Regional Trials 

Judge Doubts Liberal Berkeley Mistreats Its Homeless

January 11, 2018January 12, 2018 NICHOLAS IOVINO
Berkeley, homeless

A federal judge on Thursday appeared flabbergasted by the suggestion that an enclave of liberal political thought like Berkeley, California, has unconstitutionally persecuted its homeless.

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Courts Government National Regional 

Trial Unlikely in Fight Over Berkeley Post Office

January 11, 2018 MARIA DINZEO
Berkeley, landmarks, property, Real Estate, U.S. Postal Service

A 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.

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Courts Government Regional 

No Room for All Homeless Residents, Berkeley Tells Judge

November 29, 2017January 2, 2018 NICHOLAS IOVINO
Berkeley, California, homeless

The 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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Civil Rights 

Sympathetic Judge Rules Against Berkeley Homeless Camp

November 1, 2017January 2, 2018 NICHOLAS IOVINO
Berkeley, homeless

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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Government 

Feds Can Depose Berkeley Mayor in Post Office Fight

October 27, 2017October 27, 2017 HELEN CHRISTOPHI
Berkeley, Real Estate, U.S. Postal Service

A federal judge Thursday ruled that Berkeley’s mayor and former mayor must sit for depositions in the U.S. Postal Service’s lawsuit accusing the city of blocking the sale of the historic downtown post office building.

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Appeals Consumers Government Regional 

No Rehearing in Fight Over Berkeley Cellphone Warning

October 11, 2017 NICHOLAS IOVINO
Berkeley, cellphones, Ninth Circuit

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. 

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Government Regional 

Berkeley Loosens Rules on Police Pepper-Spraying Protesters

September 13, 2017November 17, 2017 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berkeley, Excessive Force, Police, protests

For the first time in 20 years, police in the city of Berkeley can use pepper spray on violent demonstrators.

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Civil Rights 

Weekend Protest Turns Violent in Berkeley

August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 NICHOLAS IOVINO
Berkeley, California, protests

A pack of masked, black-clad anarchists attacked a small group of pro-Trump demonstrators during a right-wing rally in Berkeley on Sunday.

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Courts 

Woman Drops $23 Million Suit Over UC Berkeley Protest

July 26, 2017February 20, 2018 NICHOLAS IOVINO
Berkeley, protests, speeches, University of California

An 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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