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Michael Doyle
House farm bill has plenty for California growers
California lawmakers will now help plant another farm bill, hoping it will bear fruit for the state’s frustrated growers. | 05/14/13 16:59:21 By - By Michael Doyle
Tax court dings high-living San Luis Obispo couple
An inventive San Luis Obispo County, Calif., couple now owes back taxes and penalties after losing a protracted legal fight with federal authorities. | 05/14/13 16:02:33 By - By Michael Doyle
For GOP House Whip Kevin McCarthy, the job is politics with a side of pizza
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy is a genial man with a confounding job. | 05/12/13 00:00:00 By - By Michael Doyle and David Lightman
The Hmong, Vietnam era allies, honor their dead from a long-ago war
The old Hmong veterans stood at ragged attention, in a cemetery whose soil is still closed to them. | 05/10/13 15:43:59 By - By Michael Doyle
Answers to key questions about Guantanamo detention center
Candidate Barack Obama pledged that he’d close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Easier said than done. As president, Obama has failed to shut down the facility he calls “expensive,” and “inefficient” and a “recruitment tool for terrorists.” | 05/09/13 18:05:01 By - By Michael Doyle and Carol Rosenberg
Crackdown on military sex assault may have unintended consequences
The scales of military justice might tilt as the Pentagon, Congress and the White House mobilize against sexual assault among the troops. Put another way, it will get tougher for defendants; maybe, some fear, unlawfully so. “What we are seeing now is the complete politicization of military justice in a way that would have shocked the members of Congress who passed the Uniform Code of Military Justice,” said Marine Corps Reserves Maj. Babu Kaza, a prominent military attorney. | 05/09/13 16:54:48 By - By Michael Doyle
In D.C. with a wish list, Merced County looks for help with roads, redevelopment and cops
Merced County officials lobbying Washington this week know, in theory, the secret of getting things done on Capitol Hill. | 05/08/13 15:30:36 By - By Michael Doyle
Family of American killed in Pakistan Marriott bombing can sue hotel in U.S.
The family of a man who was killed in an infamous terrorist attack on a Pakistan hotel can now go after the Marriott corporation in a U.S. court, under a new appellate ruling. | 05/02/13 17:42:11 By - By Michael Doyle
Pace of justice at Air Force appeals court comes under scrutiny
The nation’s top military appellate judges will scrutinize a seemingly sluggish Air Force court that’s vexed airmen from Alaska to Florida and beyond . | 05/01/13 17:43:53 By - By Michael Doyle
Feds seek control of Mongols Motorcycle Club’s symbol as legal weapon
Federal prosecutors just lost a quarter of a million dollars trying to take away the Mongols Motorcycle Club trademark. Now they’re trying again. | 04/30/13 18:48:24 By - By Michael Doyle
Military court sidesteps ruling on whether suicide is a crime
The top military appeals court has set aside the court-martial conviction of a young Okinawa-based Marine who tried to kill himself, but it left intact the possibility that others may face similar charges of “self-injury” in the future. | 04/30/13 15:14:30 By - By Michael Doyle
Boston bombing case may take years to unfold
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces the prospect of a long and tortuous legal road. | 04/26/13 18:13:58 By - By Michael Doyle
Biden calls Boston bomb suspects ‘knockoff jihadists’
Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday denounced the Chechen brothers accused of planting the Boston Marathon bombs as “two twisted, perverted, cowardly knockoff jihadists,” even as investigators scrambled to find out more about the suspects, one living and one dead. | 04/24/13 19:47:22 By - By Lesley Clark and Michael Doyle
Fireworks salesman says Boston bombing suspect wanted 'biggest, loudest' explosive
New details emerged Tuesday about the Boston Marathon bombing suspects as the surviving brother’s medical condition marginally improved and two of his alleged victims were buried, including an 8-year-old boy. | 04/23/13 20:38:38 By - By Michael Doyle, Lesley Clark, William Douglas and Curtis Tate
Supreme Court justices tread murky waters in Texas-Oklahoma dispute
Supreme Court justices on Tuesday opened a floodgate of questions about a water dispute pitting Texas against Oklahoma, with the eventual outcome still in doubt. | 04/23/13 16:47:42 By - By Michael Doyle
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