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...Local attorney Heather M. Hoffman accused the council of conceding to industry pressure, rendering comprehensive zoning plans powerless...
...real wife, Susan, filed for divorce in November 2007, and though the case is still pending, lawyers have asked her husband for $225,000 in attorney's fees. In state court filings in Texas, Mrs. Stanford asked the court to award her "exclusive use and control" of two Mercedes, a Porsche Boxster, a home in Houston's upscale Tanglewood neighborhood and a Houston condominium. She's also asked for access to all the estates in Antigua and St. Croix, plus all jets, yachts and access to VIP suites for events including Houston Rockets basketball games. But like her husband...
...attorney for the Cambridge License Commission informed us this morning, by decree of the Fire Department of the City of Cambridge, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education must cease and desist renting their space...
...independent counsel who is now dean of Pepperdine Law School, had in mind when it was his turn to argue against overturning Prop. 8. Starr is serving as counsel to supporters of traditional marriage who received permission to argue on the initiative's behalf when it became clear that Attorney General Jerry Brown would most likely support efforts to strike down Prop. 8. "The issue before this iconic court has to do with the sovereignty of the people of California," Starr said. "We have heard a lot about individual rights and suspect classification ... But the Attorney General's office points...
...second argument, advanced by Attorney General Brown, is that the most important rights found in the constitution are inalienable and not subject to changes by a simple vote of the majority, because they are too important. That argument, too, seemed to suffer under scrutiny from some justices, who asked how the court was supposed to figure out how to draw the line between rights that can't be taken away and those that are subject to amendment...