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Women Prosecutors Ask Judge To Uphold DA Sex Bias Case
Law360 (May 6, 2021, 7:41 PM EDT) Five veteran prosecutors for a California district attorney s office on Thursday urged a San Francisco federal judge to sustain their age and gender bias case, saying they had provided far more specifics about their allegations than what s required.
In a brief opposing a motion to dismiss, the prosecutors told U.S. District Judge Joseph Spero that they had shown substantial facts for each of their claims, challenging Contra Costa County, District Attorney Diana Becton and her office s argument that their suit was threadbare.
In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot claw back documents it disclosed by mistake revealing the names of oil lobbyists who planned a chummy “happy hour” outing with EPA officials, a federal judge has ruled.
In a decision issued late Tuesday night, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero found the EPA failed to show unveiling names and email addresses of lobbyists posed the kind of privacy or safety risk that would justify ordering the documents be returned.