A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has rejected a sex worker group's bid to legalize prostitution in California.
The Apothecarium has sued the city of San Francisco, arguing that the Board of Supervisors shouldn't have sustained an appeal of its pot dispensary in the Sunset district.
A former chief attorney at the public defender's office in San Francisco recently joined the local superior court bench, maintaining the number of out LGBT judges serving on it at eight.
