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It Ain’t ’07 Budget Worrying Santa Clara DA

There won’t be layoffs in the Santa Clara district attorney and public defender offices in the 2007 fiscal year, but the departments aren’t exactly jumping for joy either � especially when they look ahead to a potentially agonizing 2008.

No Escape for Ninth Circuit

An en banc panel looked for a way not to rule on the merits of a case over a private school in Hawaii that admits only native Hawaiians. They came up empty.

Pamela Torkelsen Visits Milberg Grand Jury

Not yet sentenced in the same case that’s putting her husband behind bars, suspicion that she’s helping prosecutors target Milberg Weiss appears to be confirmed.