so to the legal aid society. thank you. during this past year, the society's attorneys, staff and volunteers have served literally thousands of clients and families throughout the bay area and their achievements have been numerous and really quite inspiring, as i'm sure most of you know. >> i'd like to share one achievement in particular in a title ix lawsuit filed on behalf of four low income high school girls denied equal treatment and benefits in their high school's athletic program, particularly the girl's softball team. you may not know the legal aid society is focusing on title ix work which is really exciting. after a 10-day trial in federal district court, the judge down in southern california held that the high school had violated title ix and found that the inequalities demonstrated at the trial should have been rectified years before by the school and that promoting compliance with title ix is important societal value. he emphasized which is this wonderful quote that equality and justice are not luxuries, they ar

>> in order to legalize the units, yes. you have to basically legalize the electrical wiring, plumbing, and so forth. commissioner walker: i want to say that i got called by three or four prior tenants who wanted to remain anonymous, and they indicated that there were new tenants, as of february, march, april of this year. people had been removed, and they re--- it as early as spring of this year. -- they re-rented it as early as spring of this year. i guess i am curious about that. that it was not a continuous tenant. they just re-rented it, even with these violations. >> are we setting the property owner for illegal construction or illegal zoning use? >> we are setting the property owner for illegal creation of two units -- we are setting -- we are sending -- we are citing the property report illegal creation of two units. >> the department of building inspection cannot find violations of the plan to cut. we're dealing with the fact that it has now been four years since the notice has been issued. we are getting a lot of

the ceiling height just got legalized. it was 7.5 feet, and maya understanding was at the beginning of the year, they lowered it to 7 feet, so now my regulation -- so now it fits regulation. not because i did anything. but because the law changed. >> this will be for bottle. >> i can tell you that personally, since i have been with the city and county of san francisco, i have been dealing with this illegal unit issue for many years. the commissioner's comments are very well taken. problem in this case is since the property owner has not filed a permit or gotten plans -- if you look at the figures, you can clearly see that although she is alleging the units have been here since 1906, we have records of construction much more reason than that. as you holding the hearing, i did set out to check, and the report clearly shows at the time she bought the building, the seller gave her a report that clearly showed it was a two-unit building. she may not have understood that, but the problem is by not filing a building permit or at

now, what does it mean on the legal side? i actually think the idea of free will or what is often referred to as volitional control plays a very big part in legal systems, but i think in the legal systems, we don't mean it empirically. we don't mean it as a factual construct. we don't mean that there is actual an idea that someone has free will and has made a conscious choice and that we can somehow measure it. i think that in the criminal law, what we mean by free will is essentially a conclusion. it's not a premise, it is a conclusion. we have concluded that the person should have and will take responsibility for their action and therefore they had free will and they're going to take the consequences for that. the problem is when we start actually believing the rhetoric, we actually start believing what we're saying, if you think that, if you use free will normatively, used as a value judgment about when somebody should have to take responsibility and you use it that way in the criminal law, what happens is it starts bleedi

to extend my appreciation to first and foremost, our incredibly talented and dedicated staff at the legal aid society who work long hours with passion and with commitment to meet the urgent needs of the clients and the communities that we serve. i'd also like to thank the 200 volunteer attorneys, law students and interpreters who manage the help lines and staff, the five workers rights clinics that the legal aid society runs, the many law firms, including all of you who provide us with a wide range of pro bono advice and counsel, our many donors, businesses and members of legal communities, foundations and individuals. and the attorneys who designate the legal aid society as recipients of the fund and finally our committed colleagues on the board of directors who help steer the society with their leadership. finally, i'd like to express special thanks to the 17 firms who are recognized on the screen and also in the program book who continue to participate in the time-honored addition of per attorney giving to the annual fund. that tradition and commitment is especially meaningful in these

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let's bring in our legal guys.hey are always best to ask. >> hello. >> good to see you. >> hi, fred. >> gentlemen, avery, you first. obviously we can expect murder charges, attempted murder. but especially as investigators try to make their way into that apartment and as they learn more about just what kind of planning may have gone into this shooting, what other potential charges are we looking at? >> you'll have a multiple of potential charges, not just aggravated murder, murder, attempted murder, you actually have arson charges, aggravated arson, domestic terrorism. if you multiply the number of potential charges just in the 71 alone, over 500 charges, that excludes the booby trap charges that will be, i think, rendered by a grand jury here. so we are dealing with hundreds of potential charges against holmes and i think in this case there is still much to be known and could be even more than that. >> wow. extraordinary. up to 500 or maybe even more so. richard, we're talking about james holmes, the suspect makin

those are in your report, but these are some of the things that even if illegal units were legalized, we would still need this information. we would need a set of plans. we would need a permit to correct the record or whatever. that is what we would recommend that she do so that we can explore this even further. commissioner walker: this has been an issue that we have dealt with and several supervisors in the past have tried to deal with. it is a third rail, and we have yet to put something forward as far as a discussion about legalizing because of soi am alo displaced tenants. we do not go out of our way to find these buildings, and many of us know where they are. and the inspector going around -- they are easy to see. we do not go after them. in this case, it has been a history of tenant complaints, and that is the thing that really concerns me. up to and including losing power, losing the ability to keep, and withholding security deposits. those are all things that make it less -- i am less sensitive in those areas and less compassionate because i think that it feels like not only

with peter lavelle and his guests debating the legality and effectiveness of u.s. strawman's. please. liz. if you can say. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter all about america's love affair with drones the use of unmanned drone attacks has surged during the obama presidency proponents of this weapon claim to be a precise say for american military personnel and with limited collateral damage critics disagree drones or immoral illegal and generate unnecessary blowback. live can. start. to cross talk america's growing affection towards drones i'm joined by bill roggio in philadelphia he's a commentator on military affairs and managing editor of the long war journal in geneva we have gene myrow she is a president of the international association of democratic lawyers and in london we cross to chris woods he's a journalist with the bureau of investigative journalism all right folks crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want jane if i go to you first in geneva is the use of drones and media coverage lately has shown that obama uses them quite often

we know we will be heard from from our experts on a legal side. a lot of them can really add up here this gentleman again had heard about a situation where someone had already racked up $40,000 with of legal fees. became an issue. we are not talking about what it costs to fix up which in itself would be excess of, but also the legal component. your word of mouth and the people you know will really help. and, of course, to our media folks, people will read your articles and understand that they can really do a lot to protect their businesses early on. >> i just want to add one comment about getting our association involved. we put together a really great training. we have a panel available to you. it is only going to cost you $35 for a 30-minute conversation, and that might be the best $35 you have already spent to avoid something that will be happening in the future. that is just part of the collaborative process with supervisor chu's office, and i am very grateful to her. there is a panel of lawyers that have all attended training and know-how to

but it should not be with the legality.lem is that people like the people from the electronic intifada, do not really recognized legitimacy of jewish life anywhere, including the settlement to leave. the problem here is, it is that a question of whether they are legal or not, because of the palestinians wish to compromise, wish to recognize the legitimacy of the jewish state no matter where its borders are drawn, they can do so israel has approved it will withdraw from territory of offered peace. the problem is, the palestinians will not recognize the legitimacy of jewish life anywhere in that country. that is why the talk of war crimes -- jews are not foreigners in the land of israel. the problem is, the palestinians do not wish to share. with a question of disputed territory. both sides have rights. jews have rights, too. if the palestinians wish to have peace, if there were offered -- they were offered three times and rejected three times in the last 12 years, then have to start to live with the reality that the jews are

to have legal status to be here with his family. the consequence of a drug offense is that someone will be put into a mandatory detention. that means no bail. white they are fighting their immigration change, that could be from a couple of months. this could be for an offense. even convictions for at the first time simple possessions and the this was part of the state rehabilitative programs. this would carry over under immigration law. even though someone conclude probation, they participated in a program and wanted to get interest from the record, that it no longer exists. in san francisco, on the public defender's office often works with the district attorney's office to try to negotiate pleas that would protect an immigrant from these gross consequences. there are not a lot of alternatives available for immigrants when it comes to convictions for drug offenses. what we recommend is exploring options where a non psittacine does not have to enter a plea of guilty to participate in the program. some are pre arrest diversion program

our legal guys are back.ays she needed that segue in order to kind of get around more comfortably. but disneyland said, no, we have policies. and two wheels vehicles are not allowed. but apparently an appellate court sided with her. explain more, avery. >> well, it was a fascinating opinion. it was written by the chief judge alex kaczynski. he cited walt disney saying as long as there is imagination, disneyland essentially has to evolve to that. under title three of the a.d.a., what disneyland is doing is taking disabled people out of their segues and other two wheelers and dumping them in wheelchairs. at least that's what the allegation was. and the three judge panel said, you know what? because of the evolution in technology and disney should certainly know that, it's time to treat disabled people as closely as we can to nondisabled people. so using a two wheel segue is no less appropriate. and now it goes back to the trial court to evaluate whether it's possible. i think it's a great victory for disabled p

are those legal? >> these are legal. you can see on there there is a safe and sane state fire marshals stamp that has been put on to the fire work. >> but that looks similar to this. >> reporter: sure. expect it's in the design on how these work. if you read into it. this is something that flies up in the air. doesn't have a state fire marshals stamp but the items once inside are it will goes up into the sky. >> we have i have owe to show you -- we have video to show you. in oakland those illegal fire works are set off. when you are looking at setting them off, the biggest difference to know between safe and sane and illegal is what? >> basically anything that flies into the air anything that explodes, anything that has some kind of unpredictable movement that might occur with it will be illegal in california. >> reporter: and every year you must see injuries and fires associated with these. >> we have in california 8500 injuries that occur every year from fire works. many are treated at the emergency room which means th

but i think it is important to address that we have legal immigration and illegal immigration. we need to make sure we enforce immigration law, address these, that is a short version of what immigration is. seeking a better way of life, become a legal permanent resident and ultimately becoming american citizens. >> we're coming live from the campus of u.s. c. they are expecting 150,000 people over the next several days. 500 authors and our guests feel nonfiction, fiction legal children's books, and everything we're publishing on this campus and lots of people from southern economy -- southern california taking a bad miss people afternoon. i you a fan of the border since. >> guest: we don't need a border fence from san diego to texas. border barriers, significantly reduced illegal immigration and people attending entry and certainly reducing crime in areas like el paso, texas where it was common for individuals from mexico to commit a crime and be able to return. i think we need it to be effective >> now that you are retired and can speak more freely deified policymakers thick o