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A federal judge ruled that California's new human-trafficking law imposes unconstitutional penalties on sex offenders, officials said.
Oakland, Calif., has agreed to a compliance monitor for the Police Department to settle a long-running police suit.
Black-clad intruders disrupted peaceful Occupy movement marches in Seattle, smashing windows, spray-painting cars and slashing tires, witnesses and police said.
The court-appointed overseer of the California prison healthcare system Wednesday asked a federal judge to give the prison medical system $8 billion.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that California's Bureau of Prisons must pay millions of dollars owed to doctors who treat inmates.
California officials say they plan to cooperate with a federal order to transfer control of healthcare in state prisons to a receiver.
A court-appointed group of medical experts declared California's San Quentin prison a "decrepit" facility that poses a major risk to public health.
A federal judge has threatened to place California's prison system under court control because of a contract deal between the guards' union and the governor.
