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By Carl Tobias
11/09/12 4:37 PM
U.S. District Judge James Ware recently retired after 22 years of service. This means that the Northern District of California now has four vacancies in 14 judgeships. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has designated all four as emergencies because of the district’s heavy caseloads.
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A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former San Francisco Giants payroll manager who embezzled $2.2 million from the team and its players to 21 months in prison.
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The attorneys who prevailed in last year’s trial overturning California’s ban on same-sex marriage want the trial video made public, saying Monday that it might swing public opinion.U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Ware heard arguments from both sides in San Francisco yesterday and promised to issue a ruling soon.
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The federal judge who overturned California’s ban on same-sex marriage did not have to step down from the case simply because he was a gay man presiding over a matter that affects homosexuals, another judge ruled Tuesday.
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A bid to have retired federal Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling last year invalidating Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage, was denied by another judge today.
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A dispute over a video of last year's trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 was sent by a federal appeals court in San Francisco today to the new trial judge assigned to the case.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered U.S. District Judge James Ware to consider competing bids by Proposition 8 sponsors to keep the video under wraps and by the measure's opponents to unseal it.
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