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With cold weather absent from much of the U.S. Northeast this year, what does a groundhog's shadow mean anymore? See more here: Could Climate Change Put the Groundhog Out of Business?

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This PDF document was prepared by Ventura County Chief Deputy Public Defender Michael McMahon to accompany his one-hour lecture on the subject of case law review for 2011 through early 2012.   The lecture that ... Read the original post: Year 2011 – 2012 In Review – Criminal Law Cases – Outline

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SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments. Kimiko Burton, 47, of San Francisco, has been appointed to the State Personnel Board. Burton has been a deputy city attorney for San Francisco ... Read the original post: California – Gov. Brown announces appointments – February 1, 2012

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by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An inmate who says Chicago police officers tortured him into confessing to a brutal rape can present evidence of coercion that was denied at trial, the Illinois Supreme Court decided Thursday in ... More here: Illinois Court Allows Torture Case To Move Forward

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By Garrett Therolf, Los Angeles Times – February 1, 2012 Los Angeles County Juvenile Court will be opened to media coverage regularly, with certain exceptions intended to protect the interests of children, under an order issued ... Read more from the original source: Los Angeles County judge orders Juvenile Court opened to news media

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By Malaika Fraley – Contra Costa Times – Posted: 02/01/2012 05:29:44 PM PST MARTINEZ — A veteran attorney with the Contra Costa Public Defender’s Office was appointed Wednesday to a judgeship in the Contra Costa County ... Original post: Longtime deputy public defender appointed to Contra Costa Superior Court bench

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A New York Police Department document recommended targeting dozens of Shiite Muslim mosques from Pennsylvania to Connecticut for surveillance in a search for possible Iranian terrorists, though no evidence of such a threat existed.

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The Sacramento Bee – February 1, 2012 Looks like controversial legislation on how to fund California courts has been put on ice in the Senate. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg told reporters today not to expect ... Original post: California – Senate President Pro Tem shows no love for controversial judicial funding bill

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New photos provide visual evidence of just how close the long-isolated tribe of Mashco-Piro people in the Amazon rainforest are to being contacted by the outside world-a perilous moment for tribes highly susceptible to disease and likely to defend their people and territory with weapons. Visit link: Group releases close-up photos of 'uncontacted' tribe in Peru

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DO WE need to release elephants into the Australian bush? Maybe we do, ecologist David Bowman suggests. He thinks we need to consider such extreme measures to bring stability to the nation's disrupted ecosystems. More here: Elephants for the bush?