Lambda Legal Pens Bill to Protect Surviving Domestic Partners From Unequal Tax Assessment 
California State Senator Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego) introduced a bill Thursday, SB 559, drafted by Lambda Legal and sponsored by Equality California that would bring property tax relief to surviving domestic partners who inherited real estate from a partner who died before 2006.
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Nursing home accused of abuse 
LA CA ADA FLINTRIDGE - A senior-care facility and its locally based parent corporation are being sued for elder abuse and negligence. The latest litigation comes less than a year after the company settled a state lawsuit over inadequate service at its more than two dozen California locations.
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Forged Order Barred Release Of Anna Nicole’s Body 
Forgery is the latest complication in the Anna Nicole Smith legal melodrama. Someone sent out a phony court order this week under a California judge’s name saying he was barring the release of Smith’s body for burial.
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‘Jessica’s Law’ not retroactive, judge rules 
A federal judge in San Francisco dismissed a challenge to California’s new sex offender law Thursday, backing a federal judge who ruled this month that the “predator-free zones” that Proposition 83 creates around schools and parks cannot apply to the tens of thousands of former sex criminals who have served their sentences.
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Hospital Association of Southern California Responds to City Attorney’s Allegations of Hospitals Causing Homelessness 
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ — It is unfortunate that the Los Angeles City Attorney and other elected officials feel the need to blame hospitals for a problem that they need to remedy.
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California hospital acknowledges mistakes in homeless dumping 
LOS ANGELES A Los Angeles hospital says procedures “were not strictly followed” when a van driver contracted by the hospital left a discharged paraplegic man crawling on Skid Row this month.
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LA judge says document stopping release of Smith body is phony 
Forgery is the latest complication in the Anna Nicole Smith legal melodrama. Someone sent out a phony court order this week under a California judge’s name saying he was barring …
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