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A U.S. District Court judge this week essentially told the federal government to call off its dogs when it comes to enforcement against medical marijuana dispensaries in California.

The U.S. Department of Justice appeared to defy the will of Congress, at least in the view of Judge Charles Breyer of the U.S. Northern District of California.

Late last year President Obama signed an omnibus budget bill that included a directive, co-authored by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Orange County, that essentially prohibits federal enforcement against otherwise legit medical pot sellers in states where it's legal.

The judge said the federal government's continued enforcement “defies language and logic” of the law.

While Breyer denied the defendant's attempt to get an injunction lifted, a matter that some news outlets got wrong, he essentially said feds couldn't enforce the injunction.

The case involved the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana dispensary in Fairfax, California. The feds essentially shut it down in 2011, and owner Lynette Shaw appealed.

Last year, Rohrabacher, angry that even U.S. veterans who had served their country and nearly died for it still couldn't get medical weed in a state where it's supposedly legal, spearheaded legislation that hamstrung the government's efforts to raid dispensaries in California. At least on paper.

“The harassment from the [U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration] is something that should not be tolerated in the land of the free,” Rohrabacher said.

The law is quoted in Breyer's ruling:

None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to the States of … California [and 32 other states], to prevent such States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.

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James Lambert Otis will appear again on Hollywood Boulevard today at 1:00 p.m. PT to advocate for the immediate removal of Donald Trump‘s newly restored star on the Walk of Fame.

Earlier this week, in the wake of his arrest for smashing Trump’s star on Oct. 26, Otis spent that morning at one of Trump’s golf courses, even though it was closed and crawling with security guards. This came on the heels of a similar scouting mission at a Halloween party at the Trump Doral in Miami. “I found five women who had been sexually abused,” Otis tells The Hollywood Reporter. “We were going to take the women right in front of the Trump hotel and share their stories about sexual abuse and demand Trump apologize for his comments. It isn’t OK to be sexually abusive.”

In the end, two of the women dropped out and press interest was subdued. But the setback hasn’t dampened Otis’ enthusiasm for combating sexism and other intolerance he feels the GOP candidate personifies. “For Trump it’s a way of life. He molests them and then he sues them. It makes me nuts. It’s a part of why I did that [the Walk of Fame]. I felt so powerless that this man was saying things about people I love and getting away with it. I felt I had to do something, so I did. I’m proud of what I did and I’d do it again.”

The idea came to Otis on a Silent Sunday, part of a ritual he practiced for nine years in which he didn’t speak on Sunday. He figured he’d have to pay for the damaged star, but wrongly assumed he would get to keep it and auction it off privately, with the proceeds going to Trump’s victims.

He spent six weeks planning the deed, including two nights scouting Hollywood Boulevard among homeless guys and a street performer painted gold. Then, at 5:45 a.m. on Oct. 26, he set up cones, donned a construction worker’s helmet and vest,