18 is the legal age of majority in terms of many of the rights you are entitled to under the law. An inheritance included in a will (especially for the child of the deceased) is a gift, however, and not a right and therefore the bestower has the ability to put whatever conditions upon it he or she would like. As many…

It’s actually both! PP Federation of America and all the CA affiliates are plaintiffs. While we Californians would love to take credit for committing ourselves to standing up to these idiots, I believe the CA affiliates filed because the Center for Medical Progress is, unfortunately, headquartered in our state.

No. A criminal defense attorney’s job is to advocate for their client and try to show that the state has not met its burden of proof. Their job in a trial is not to prove their client’s innocence, but to show that the state has not proved the client’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. A person who likely committed a…

Sorry, no such luck. Gov. Brown said today that California will not turn away Syrian refugees. We may indeed be shitty in many other ways, but we’re not going to join you all on this one!

No. Just no. Rape is not “fair play.” Rape is not an appropriate punishment for a crime. Rape is not only a bad thing if it happens to “innocent” people. The institutionalized rape in our prison system is disgusting and shameful even if it happens to someone you don’t like.

You mean like mandatory minimum sentencing and the absence of judicial discretion entirely? Because we have forms of that all over the country and it’s a disaster.

What? Chrissy is Charlotte, Teeny is Samantha, Roberta is Miranda, and Samantha is Carrie (sorry, Sam, but you are the writer/main character. And you smoke). SATC basically just ripped off Now and Then.

I don’t know why we’re assuming their prenup had an infidelity clause, but even if it did (and even if non-marital relations after a legal separation were considered infidelity), infidelity clauses are very difficult to enforce. This is particularly true in California where there is existing case law that holds that…

Came here to hope someone was making this point. As a person who doesn’t eat pork, I am 1000x more familiar with which products are made from pigs than my pork-eating friends, since those are the foods I have to avoid. Muslims and Jews living in a pork-filled world - we tend to know what’s up.

Totally. San Quentin is probably not known as visitor-friendly.

My mom (an attorney) wears underwire-less bras when visiting clients in San Quentin for this reason (I believe she also once forgot and had to do something similar re: ripping out the underwire). It may be insane, but I also think it’s a pretty well-known rule, at least in some maximum security prisons/death rows? I…