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Article by Eric K Arnold.
Last updated at Mon, 28 Mar at 8:31am.

Following a controversial courtroom arrest and an eyebrow-raising tweet from the city attorney - which has exacerbated community relations in the preliminary hearing in the proposed Fruitvale gang injunction - the real-life courtroom drama has suddenly become as emotional and tension-filled as its fictional TV counterparts.

Article by Eric K Arnold.
Last updated at Thu, 24 Mar at 7:57am.

The ongoing saga of the Oakland gang injunctions case took another dramatic turn Tuesday when defendant Javier Quintero - who had earlier been sitting in the witness box, quietly scribbling notes on a yellow legal pad - was handcuffed and arrested by parole agents in open court.

Article by Eric K Arnold.
Last updated at Sun, 20 Mar at 6:44am.

They were back at it on Wednesday.

On one side: lawyers from the City Attorney’s office and co-counsel from the Meyers Nave firm, representing what was termed (in a remark ultimately stricken from the record) “the police point of view.”

Article by Barbara Grady.
Last updated at Thu, 17 Mar at 10:06pm.

More than 17,500 children in Alameda County have no health insurance.
Yet four out of five of them are eligible for state and federal public health care programs if only their parents would enroll them.

Article by Eric K Arnold.
Last updated at Thu, 17 Mar at 7:18am.

As testimony resumed Tuesday in the Oakland Fruitvale gang injunction case, several witnesses were expected to testify, but only two of them did: OPD officer and Hispanic gang expert Douglass Keely and Alameda County Department of Corrections parole agent Joey Morino.

But before the hearing even started, the tension had begun to mount outside of court.

Article by Eric K Arnold.
Last updated at Wed, 16 Mar at 2:15am.

For a guy who’d just completed nearly six hours of testimony (over a three-day period), Officer Douglass Keely didn’t seem winded. Nor did he appear daunted by the prospect of another appearance on the witness stand the following day.

Article by Niema Jordan.
Last updated at Thu, 10 Mar at 3:00pm.

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Article by Eric K Arnold.
Last updated at Tue, 8 Mar at 9:11am.

There is no end in sight for the Oakland gang injunctions case.

After a long court session Wednesday, which began at 10 a.m. and concluded at 4:30 p.m., the preliminary injunctions hearing on the proposed Fruitvale “safety zone,” which has been going on since January, appears to be no closer to conclusion.