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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Pittsburgh public works manager suspended after DUI guilty plea
Saturday, June 13, 2009
By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Mr. Victor said he had not yet decided whether Mr. Barley's job duties will continue to include checking colleagues' driving records.
Mr. Barley's "duties require him to do some driving on the job," which he won't be able to do following the DUI, Mr. Victor said. "There's the bigger issue obviously of discredit on the city."
Mr. Barley, 57, attended a golf outing, organized by the CityFit Wellness at Work Program, at LakeVue North Golf Course in Butler. City officials told reporters today that 58 employees paid the city treasury $55 each, and the city then paid LakeVue $3,190 for the event.
The price included meals and beer.
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By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Mr. Victor said he had not yet decided whether Mr. Barley's job duties will continue to include checking colleagues' driving records.
Mr. Barley's "duties require him to do some driving on the job," which he won't be able to do following the DUI, Mr. Victor said. "There's the bigger issue obviously of discredit on the city."
Mr. Barley, 57, attended a golf outing, organized by the CityFit Wellness at Work Program, at LakeVue North Golf Course in Butler. City officials told reporters today that 58 employees paid the city treasury $55 each, and the city then paid LakeVue $3,190 for the event.
The price included meals and beer.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Supergraphics a Super Nuisance
From the Los Angeles Times:
SkyTag, which says that it produces images "so large they can be seen from space," filed court documents last week saying the city should not try to remove the company's supergraphics from high-rises in West Los Angeles, Koreatown and other neighborhoods until the ban litigation is resolved.
If you've ever driven down the west side of Los Angeles you will in no doubt have seen these monstrosities, huge graphic ads on large buildings.
I for one do not like them, and find them very distracting when I am driving down the road. I would not be surprised if there haven't been any serious accidents caused by these things. I'm pretty sure there are enough people that have been injured because these things are there, that they could file a class action lawsuit against the company(ies) that put them up.
I hope the get taken down.
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SkyTag, which says that it produces images "so large they can be seen from space," filed court documents last week saying the city should not try to remove the company's supergraphics from high-rises in West Los Angeles, Koreatown and other neighborhoods until the ban litigation is resolved.
If you've ever driven down the west side of Los Angeles you will in no doubt have seen these monstrosities, huge graphic ads on large buildings.
I for one do not like them, and find them very distracting when I am driving down the road. I would not be surprised if there haven't been any serious accidents caused by these things. I'm pretty sure there are enough people that have been injured because these things are there, that they could file a class action lawsuit against the company(ies) that put them up.
I hope the get taken down.
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
All for One and One for All
From the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the right of a local public employees' union to force government workers who are not union members to pay a share of legal fees.
So the court decided in this case that everyone who was going to benefit from collective bargaining must pitch in to help with the legal fees. This sounds pretty logical, but it's kinda hard to believe that this had to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the right of a local public employees' union to force government workers who are not union members to pay a share of legal fees.
So the court decided in this case that everyone who was going to benefit from collective bargaining must pitch in to help with the legal fees. This sounds pretty logical, but it's kinda hard to believe that this had to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Guitmo Legal Proceedings Halted - Class Action Lawsuit to Come?
Yesterday, the United States made history, the first African-American man to be elected President was Inaugurated. Shortly then after Barack Obama sent a notice to all prosecutors in Guantanamo Bay Prison to halt all legal proceedings for the next 120 days.
This no doubt will come with protests from those on the right that feel that the people being held there are too dangerous to be released. But as recent news reports show many of the men there are already being released because of the lack of evidence to show that they actually did something wrong or committed some violent act against the United States.
The 120-day delay is meant to give the new Obama administration some time to review the legal cases.
During the campaign, Barack Obama, said a number of times that he would close Guantanamo Bay if he became President, this is clearly the first step to that.
As many of you know the Constitution of the United States guarantees you (and anyone in the US) certain rights to a fair trial.
One of the things that I am wondering about is that because of all the people that have been released or might be released at a later date without prosecution, will these people file some sort of class action lawsuit against the government? I doubt many lawyers would want to take such a complicated case. Though there are a few class actions lawyers like LA Based Ringler, Kearney, Alvarez LLP, that might be willing and able to take the cases of those men.
Another question I have is that will some of the guards, translators and/or civilians at Gitmo be given Whitleblower status for testifying against the Military. In cases like those Whisle Blower Lawyer, Mike Khouri might come in handy.
This no doubt will come with protests from those on the right that feel that the people being held there are too dangerous to be released. But as recent news reports show many of the men there are already being released because of the lack of evidence to show that they actually did something wrong or committed some violent act against the United States.
The 120-day delay is meant to give the new Obama administration some time to review the legal cases.
During the campaign, Barack Obama, said a number of times that he would close Guantanamo Bay if he became President, this is clearly the first step to that.
As many of you know the Constitution of the United States guarantees you (and anyone in the US) certain rights to a fair trial.
One of the things that I am wondering about is that because of all the people that have been released or might be released at a later date without prosecution, will these people file some sort of class action lawsuit against the government? I doubt many lawyers would want to take such a complicated case. Though there are a few class actions lawyers like LA Based Ringler, Kearney, Alvarez LLP, that might be willing and able to take the cases of those men.
Another question I have is that will some of the guards, translators and/or civilians at Gitmo be given Whitleblower status for testifying against the Military. In cases like those Whisle Blower Lawyer, Mike Khouri might come in handy.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Prominent Los Angeles Based Attorney Defends Alleged Gang Member
From: Newsweek.com
The federal charges name 61 alleged F13 members in two indictments. The gang-violence charges came in a 53-count RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) indictment against 24 alleged gang leaders, charging them in a conspiracy to sell drugs, possess weapons illegally, and assault and kill black gang members and civilians. In the second indictment prosecutors charged the rest of the men on federal drug-distribution charges. More than 40 of the defendants pleaded not guilty at arraignments Tuesday, according to prosecutors. Michael Khouri, an attorney for Luis Aguilar, 35, says his client left the gang "several years ago" and served recently as a gang negotiator. "Mr. Aguilar will plead not guilty, and he is not guilty," says Khouri. Fifteen of the accused remain fugitives.
The indictments provide a telling snapshot of the changing nature of gangs in south L.A. According to federal prosecutors, F13 has grown into a tightly controlled gang of 2,000 members in 30 cliques led by convicts and parolees who are members of the prison-based Mexican mafia. It's a far cry from the '80s, when the black drug gangs, including the Crips and the Bloods, predominated, mining the crack epidemic with ruthless efficiency. Compared with looser Latino gangs that were seen as turf-conscious fighters, the black gangs were organized and disciplined. "The stereotype was that [the black gangs] were all about the [drug] business," says gang researcher Cheryl Maxson, an associate professor of criminology at University of California, Irvine. With the black gangs, "there was a millionaire in every neighborhood" perched at the top of the crack distribution pyramid, adds gang expert Alex Alonso, who edits streetgangs.com.
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The federal charges name 61 alleged F13 members in two indictments. The gang-violence charges came in a 53-count RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) indictment against 24 alleged gang leaders, charging them in a conspiracy to sell drugs, possess weapons illegally, and assault and kill black gang members and civilians. In the second indictment prosecutors charged the rest of the men on federal drug-distribution charges. More than 40 of the defendants pleaded not guilty at arraignments Tuesday, according to prosecutors. Michael Khouri, an attorney for Luis Aguilar, 35, says his client left the gang "several years ago" and served recently as a gang negotiator. "Mr. Aguilar will plead not guilty, and he is not guilty," says Khouri. Fifteen of the accused remain fugitives.
The indictments provide a telling snapshot of the changing nature of gangs in south L.A. According to federal prosecutors, F13 has grown into a tightly controlled gang of 2,000 members in 30 cliques led by convicts and parolees who are members of the prison-based Mexican mafia. It's a far cry from the '80s, when the black drug gangs, including the Crips and the Bloods, predominated, mining the crack epidemic with ruthless efficiency. Compared with looser Latino gangs that were seen as turf-conscious fighters, the black gangs were organized and disciplined. "The stereotype was that [the black gangs] were all about the [drug] business," says gang researcher Cheryl Maxson, an associate professor of criminology at University of California, Irvine. With the black gangs, "there was a millionaire in every neighborhood" perched at the top of the crack distribution pyramid, adds gang expert Alex Alonso, who edits streetgangs.com.
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