The Falls: Top of the Morning
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It’s Friday, Nov. 9, 2007. Tonight's the Cork and Keg, the yearly festival of food and drink put on by the Spokane chapter of the state restaurant association. For 40 bucks, you can taste a whole lot of wine and beer and food. Call 467-7744 for information.
Today in Your Sexy Government: The justice wing of YSG can be a complicated terrain. Yesterday, an appeals court rules that Spokane's city court system violates state law because District Court judges – who were elected partially by people living outside the city limits – have been presiding over Municipal Court cases for more than a decade. The decision puts thousands of misdemeanor convictions between 1995 and Jan. 1 of this year in jeopardy. Read this reports report by Thomas Clouse and Karen Dorn Steele.
From the Great Beyond: A court transcript shows that Kootenai County Prosecutor Bill Douglas named an attorney who'd been dead for 10 years as the person he consulted before joining a lawsuit over CdA's popular and controversial Sanders Beach. Douglas said he misspoke, and that he actually consulted the expert's writings. But we like the idea of legal advice from the afterlife. Might be cheaper. Here's Erica Curless' story.
