Criminal,
Civil Litigation
Nov. 13, 2017
Constitutionality of money bail debated in papers in federal court
Plaintiffs who are challenging the state’s money bail system have filed a motion asking an Oakland federal judge to declare it unconstitutional, while also seeking to expand the case from San Francisco to all of California.
Plaintiffs who are challenging the state’s money bail system have filed a motion asking an Oakland federal judge to declare it unconstitutional, while also seeking to expand the case from San Francisco to all of California.
Phil Telfeyan, executive director of Washington, D.C.-based Equal Justice Under Law, asked U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to declare that San Francisco’s money bail system violates the 14th Amendment....
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