of what legal services does. for many americans, tens of thousands of americans who are at risk of having their house foreclosed out from under them, seeking assistance from legal services, to stay in your home, that's not a trial lawyer bailout. i don't think people go to legal services because they can't afford an attorney and want to stay in their home feel they are giving a bailout to lawyers and asking for help to stay in their home. . it's also been described as a bastion for left-wing cause. i don't think it's a left-wing cause to help people to stay in their house. i don't think it's a left-wing cause when you have veterans coming back from iraq and afghanistan who need mental health services and need the advice of counsel and need the help of counsel to get services they're entitled to. i don't think it's a left-wing cause or a right-wing cause to want to foreclose on someone or it's a left-wing cause to try to keep them in their home. i think, frankly, this ought to be all of our cause, that people thro

exactly as we described it here they game the system the game the legal system and everyone is in on it the rating agencies knew about this fitch and moody's they knew about it they committed fraud the investment banks knew about it they committed fraud the justice department under bush and under obama they know about it they're committing fraud on a daily basis regarding the story here recall that it's very similar to the goldman sachs a.i.g. deal and we saw this and we covered this here on the kaiser report a few months ago where senator carl levin was questioning goldman sachs including blankfein and he was asking about e-mails in which they also use the same word of this excrement this foul word this four letter word for their deals that they were snowing really selling to their clients did anything ever come of that were they ever prosecuted were they ever charged with fraud no it was all just like their sort of language but i thought perhaps because there is so much of this. being sold and packaged by banks perhaps we could reclassify this as manufacturing and there they could

so let's move on to the next headline also related to all of this mortgage giants leave legal bills to the taxpayers so even if bear stearns or j.p. morgan have to go to court to defend this it looks like you know the taxpayers. you know our being stiffed with all the bills since the government took over fannie mae and freddie mac. taxpayers have spent more than one hundred sixty million dollars defending the mortgage finance companies and a former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud the cost was a closely guarded secret until last week of course the guy was keeping the secret was high on dope any let it go to wiki leaks yes this is in order to defend fannie mae and freddie mac. executives like franklin raines and timothy howard and of course fannie mae and freddie mac. ball a lot of these bad mortgages from these banks as well as part of a huge can because they got a government sponsored entities allows them to play a game the interest rate spread between government securities and government securities here's my prediction i made a list i'm sticking by that before

here illegally for five years we will grant you legal status. we will give the person an incentive to float the law and move here legally if they think they can manage it. i wonder what your response was to masius's point. >> there's a tension but one of the analogies are use. personally analogy of adverse position between respecting property laws and having a rule on adverse recession with the statute of limitations, it is often the case in more matter is that there are tensionss between competing goods some of my argument is there is tension and there are better ways to manage that tension. the way to reduce -- i am just working in the framework, the assumptions states have the right to not take global models or control immigration, let me explain why i take that assumption because elsewhere i argue against it. part of what happens is in these conversations people wind up talking past one another because they have different background assumptions. what i am interested in, seems to me often in conversations is helpful to say i am not sure i agr

miguel sanchez should have a legal right to stay. the final element, the sheer length of time he lived in the u.k. is also possible -- powerful. arrived as a child, but suppose she arrived at 20 rather than four. would anybody really think that this defense would make it acceptable to deport her 60 years later? the case clearly illustrates that there is some time beyond which unreasonable to deport people. settled without legal authorization. how long is too long? what if simmons had been 60 and not 80? with that have diminished her plan to stay? is and not. what if she had been 40. well, the point is the case of lead diminishes, but the underlying principle remains, there is something deeply wrong in forcing people to leave a place where they live for a long time. most people form human connections where they live. it becomes sound. even if someone has arrived as an adult is seems cruel and inhumane to upper deck person to spend 15 or 20 years as a contributing member of society in the name of enforcing immigration restriction. the

one of our legal wins this year was a settlement agreement. this allows us to share with you certain information about our sign ivetri. a number of years ago the city was sued by an association of sign companies alleging that our detailed sign inventory was in fact their trade secret. they did manage to convince a judge their position had at least some merit. because of this in years past we've only been able to show you very generalized information about the location of signs. images like this. we of course have a great deal more information but in years past we couldn't show you. that's changed. as of just a few weeks ago, we've been able to disclose a great deal more information based on a settlement agreement we did enter into, and walk over to the computer for a second, i can back out of this, -- point your browser to signmap.ss.planning.org and you will see the following. okay. we have here an interactive map of every general advertising sign as defined in the planning code located in san francisco. we can zoom in. let's zoom in, if we c

their car to turn in a fellow driver if their operation is not legal?>> we do not need to do that. they are begging us to take this enforcement action. i considered asking them to send us photographs but i do not want our taxi drivers to take photographs while they are driving. we are looking for every way that we can become effective. that has to do wiéh!fine amounts, field presence, being able to tow, and it has to do with being visible. >> are their current programsç that you are modeling this after? >> there are other jurisdictions were taxi regulators apply administrative enforcement. police resources are scarce. the problems are huge. los angeles, for example, has moved to an administrative enforcement mechanism to deal with the legal vehicles because it is more efficient for staff time. another thing is you control of the citation. right now, he would go off to the court of justice. we have no knowledge or input as to how the judges actually treat that citation. if it is it an administrative citation, it wouldç be treated like a parking ticket

status by providing evidence that it was likely legally authorized. in august 2009, the department granted this in lieu request and asked that a permit be filed to proceed with the legalization process. later in 2009, rather than seeking a permit to legalize the sign to complete the process, cbs submitted a permit to remove both of these sides. the permit was accompanied by the letter of authorization you saw earlier. the work was done. in january of last year, january 2010, dbi inspected the work as being complete. based on this chronology, the sign did not complete the process to become a legal sign. it remained illegal. fast forward to august of last year. as part of the department's ongoing general advertising sign program and field work associated with the program, we detected a new general advertising sign in the same location as the previous signs on the subject property. we issued a new notice of violation -- i am sorry. we issued a notice of violation. the sign was removed before any penalties accrued. the appellant now seeks to have the perm

if you felt legal scholarship were precious, and if you, arguably there'll be no legal scholarship reduce because there would be the means to produce it. is that a price worth paying or is there some sort of backdoor way of getting, we are interested in journalism, the reporting done and all that in a world that really privileges diversity of opinion and diversity of power. >> so the question is whether we should always accept artificial barriers essentially on the market or, in order to preserve things that we admire. i would say so but i would say we overdo it. a lot. the legal profession is a great example. it's not as bad as other professions but a lot of people can do legal work that are not lawyers. >> you're not saying this sort of to? to the left of positions and the crowd will provide anything that has real value, right? >> if you want to be to say that -- [talking over each other] i think there are differences. speak of let me ask you. i guess my problem with journalists, or the journalistic way of thinking about things is any industry once it has its protection, begins to set a

. >>> a new spin on legal challenges. proposition eight. the obama administration calls the defense of marriage act unconstitutional. >>> the state's deteriorating awater management system may be heading to catastrophe unless bold steps are taken. >>> and "we were here" takes a look back at the aids years in san francisco. all coming up next. >>> good evening. i'm scott schaefer setting in for belva davis. welcome to "this week in northern california." joining me are dan brekke, josh richman, legal and political affairs reporter for the oakland tribune and carla marinucci, of "the san francisco chronicle." quite a kerfuffle in wisconsin, indiana, ohio. what's happening? what are the unions upset about? what does it mean for california? >> it has been called a tsunami on its way to california. the whole issue broke open this week. a lot of people wondering could california face the same kind of protests and action? this is all about money, power, and politics. the unions, particularly public employee unions are heart of the democratic party.

the fact that it's actually written down in legal language like a list of those reasons seems really crazy but is that normal do we see a lot of states in the us that have that kind of thing written on the books. that is normal justifiable homicide is not a completely out there you know legal defense of somebody trying to murder you when you kill them or they're trying to commit a felony upon you. it's. self-defense essentially or something similar to now you mentioned a few things about the state of south dakota that they don't even have an abortion doctors i know that also you know the planned parenthood does fly in a doctor once a week and before she even offers out abortion a chance to read a statement that tells this mother that she's killing a whole unique person what other moves of they made what else do we know about their history in terms of going against abortion. well south dakota has tried to outlaw abortion entirely i believe twice now. voters rejected it both times but you know they have tried to take that to the voters and put it on the ballot that abortion should be i

legal service in immigration context. but in san francisco that you mentioned is definitely a sister organization to us. we are different but similar. >> and the unique thing about it we all have cooperation with east bay based organizations in housing and employment. say you are a tenant fighting an increase, we work closely with the city and other organizations to assure that the tenants aren't subject to illegal rent increases, we try to prevent homelessness. >> you're doing some great work. we show that information. we're running out of time but we thank you for joining us.

. >> up next, legal journalist kim eisler profiles the five partners of the washington, d.c.law firm williams and connolly. the author reports on the inside-the-beltway connections of the firm from their defense of president bill clinton to their representation of "the washington post." >> this is a book which is not just about washington, not just about a single washington law firm, but about -- it's sort of the culmination of everything that i learned from writing about lawyers and law firms back, back in the day. and that when you're a newspaper reporter, you learn early on that underneath every decision and behind every, almost behind every length and every political thing that happens from the smallest town to the biggest city nobody does anything in this country anymore without consulting a lawyer. i'd started my journalistic career as a reporter in greenville, mississippi, and from there i went on to the tampa tribune. and after living in florida for five year, i had decided -- five years, i had decided that the only place i could possibly live that would be better tha

joining me are dan brekke, josh richman, legal and political affairs reporter for the oakland tribune and carla marinucci, of "the san francisco chronicle." quite a kerfuffle in wisconsin, indiana, ohio. what's happening? what are the unions upset about? what does it mean for california? >> it has been called a tsunami on its way to california. the whole issue broke open this week. a lot of people wondering could california face the same kind of protests and action? this is all about money, power, and politics. the unions, particularly public employee unions are heart of the democratic party. they provide money, man power, and in states like wisconsin, we saw a republican governor challenge them openly. try try end collective bargaining. a lot of california protesters are heading to wisconsin as we speak, with concern could this catch on here in california. >> the concerns, i mean, in wisconsin you have the whole issue of collective bargaining. you also have the other legitimate concerns about the can we sustain? >> that's right. here in california, the legislative analysts have said

>> the why now is more of a legal question, although certainly has political overtones. in previous cases, the justice department had defended doma by citing case law, precedence, that directed judges to uphold any law that land these two cass are filed in a federal circuit, a judicial circuit where no such case law exists. and the obama administration decided, and by that ibama and general eric holder, that gay people have a higher standard of scrutiny, and under that test this law won't stand up. >> doma prevents the federal government from recognizing marriages that might be legal in massachusetts or other states so they can't get any kind of federal benefit to those folks. couples in california who got married legally before prop 8 passed, how does this affect them? can they now sue? >> in fact, some already have, and this could have bearing on that. depending on what happens in these two cases. if doma gets struck down, as the obama administration seems content to let happen, you would see a flood of litigation of same-sex couples that married in various states that

those funds are required to be applied back to the legal vehicle enforcement.k this is an effective program. it is still in the process of being deployed. this ordinance is part of the foundation of that program. supervisor mirkarimi: could you just delineate a little more what an illegal vehicle is? >> there are several kinds of alito vehicles. it might be and out of town taxi. if someone cannot get business in oakland, tç they are picking up a few extra affairs. they could be an authorized limousine chartered by the state public utilities commission but çis acting illegally by picking up shares of the street. limousines are required by law to be prearranged, reserved rides. the third and most dangerous kind of illegal vehicle is where someone just goes out and gets a lincoln town car and a suit and just drives around the bars at night picking people up. >> in otherç words, they are masquerading as a permitted vehicle and that is able to ferry passengers for pay but they have not obtained the necessary approvals to do just that. >>ç that is correct. >> wha

i would appreciate more legal briefing. i also think we did convey the same professional courtesy to the project sponsor. they very much made an issue of not having counsel. lastly, convincing council to act pro bono is a difficult hurdle. it is much more difficult than paying council. i have much sympathy for the community in convincing a lawyer to represent them on a pro bono matter. i have sympathy for the time that this took. >> shall we call the roll? >> on that motion from president goh to reschedule the matter for march 9, a briefing at the five pages -- commissioner fung: aye. vice president garcia: aye. commissioner peterson: aye. >> the boat is 4-0. the matter is rescheduled to march 9. >> thank you. >> when you are ready, give the room a minute to clear. please leave the room as quickly as you can so we can move on to our next item. vice president garcia: -- president goh: dbi and planning get to leave, because it is all taxi. >> i think you can call item six now. the room is clearing. >> : item six, appeal 10-13

a unit or selling your building that's useful to know when the building was built and how it was legally or otherwise altered without or with permits so we have with us today three people. just scratching the surface of the available resources in san francisco about persons who know about historical buildings and jeremy paul permit consul stapt that does a lot of work trying to help people try and solve permit issues, many of which relate to learning the legal issues of their building and sorting out the records and, the survey coordinator for the planning department and historic research surveying is becoming more and more important and just recently we got a substantial cash settlement from a problem that took place at the moratorium that will be surveying and i don't think that's going through the planning department but the survey resources are so important and that's the settlement of a lawsuit is let's do more surveying. alan, right side is records management, arad yen cussad yen manager of records the department of building commission ran out of space so we moved into offices next

los angeles, for example, has moved to an administrative enforcement mechanism to deal with the legal vehicles because it is more efficient for staff time. another thing is you control of the citation. right now, he would go off to the court of justice. we have no knowledge or input as to how the judges actually treat that citation. if it is it an administrative citation, it wouldç be treated like a parking ticket and it would be sfmta officers who would be fielding those citations. >> so you will be cracking down on gypsy cabs, these forms of transportation that are not necessarily authorized. where i am concerned is, a large part ofç the reason why these wrote taxi services pop up is because they serve and underserved population. in the southeast part of the city, where i live, near candlestick park,ç oftentimes, even i have a problem getting a taxi. i have to spend several minutes, waiting for a cab. further south, they do not even come that way. i am in a pinch try to reconcile this. çthese gypsy cabs arrive becaue services do not exist. so what are you doing, your fellowç ca

i am the co-founder of the revolutionary legal advocacy corps. when they had the theater performance of a 911 domestic call, when the police officer came here with a tommy gun displayed for everybody, the last thing is to criticize every one of you for allowing us to sit through all these meetings for all this time before you actually allow us to be heard. i know that president mazzucco tried to cut the time down a little bit. that is disrespectful. we sat through this entire process, almost five hours. some of us have places to go. some of us have a mobility issues. some of us have young children. it is disrespectful to prolong this entire process, these presentations, over and over, it just so you guys can get your presentations before everybody else. you really need to start prioritizing the public more. nobody is overcoming the other. i want to be fair for a moment. i am against the tasers. some of my comrades here are against the tasers. but when police officers fly over and over again -- lie over and over again, how do we know if the use of

i am also wondering if there is any legal recourse in terms of challenging the legality of that within the puc or in court. i am just wondering if the attorney's office has any thoughts on that, or if lafco has that. >> i am from the city attorney's office. the three-year waiting period for customers to switch back is a tariff rule that was adopted by the cpuc. the legislature could just tell them what the ruleless. -- rule is. those are the two most obvious ways to change that. >> if i could follow up on that, nancy miller, as a result of the senate committee, we are hearing where many of these issues were brought out. there is a group that is meeting. they're working to develop a list of legislative issues to be drafted into legislation for next year. i think they are thinking about waiting for the report to come in to finalize that. the idea is definitely to go to the legislature this next session with some legislation to repeal and modify and amend some of these provisions. commissioner mirkarimi: if i am not mistaken, they are talking about the part of the modifications, clarifyin

we do have the legal brokers that operate as if they were a licensed company.nt to make sure that if we have a crime in place, allowing someone to drive a taxi who is not aç taxi driver. there is currently no criminal penalty for that. hotel doorman are also a rampant problem in the industry with respect to illegal competition. any taxi driver can tell you, for $8 at any hotel you can get a referral to the airport. that is frustrating and demoralizing for the taxi driver who is trying to play by the rules. there is no current caught -- crime in place that is affected. is it that, extortion, bribery? those are pretty big words for $20 transactions. what we want isç a targeted, specialized misdemeanor that will address this specific conduct that we can use as an effective enforcement mechanism to prosecute these individuals and businesses. also, there isç a crime of overcharging drivers. drivers are the ones that provide this service on the ground. they are often subject to a lot of overcharges by various contacts along the way in their work day. so we intend

legal or sort of a borders but as a ship to in a legal way. the quality and quantity of these legal drugs. but relevant experts this is always an enormously important issue for us if there are a heroin and. according to official figures that the actual number could be high up and one measure put forward by moscow is the elimination of taste and the increasing tendency to be used to pull off the production to be put on the un thanks list why isn't the un acting on that ok so i think we can be successful in fighting drugs if we do it in a comprehensive way and if we address the problem from upstream to downstream so we need to fight against the rocks in the areas where. drugs cultivated terms produced also need a chain of supply of drugs we need. to prevent the corruption and money laundering because it's a huge money it's a city billion dollars. revenue so for illegal drug trafficking can the world if you count. opiates and synthetic drugs and. so it's a huge it's more than the g.d.p. of a developed country so we need. to do is to create a situ

poker una de las mas populares... 17:58 hay un monton de personas que estan haciendolo pero no es legalentes que apostar en internet es ilegal en california y hay leyes federales tambien....17:53 aunque las apuestas en internet violan estatutos tanto federales como estatales, segun la procuraduria de california, el problema es que operan de forma tan abierta y aparentemente sin escrutinio de las autoridades,que puede parecer que son legales, explico ridout. 20:37 aunque esta clase de crimen es contra la ley no es una prioridad de las autoridades y no han sido muchos castigos y por eso es facil concluir que es legal 20:54 agrego que un signo de alerta es que estos sitios operan desde paises en el exterior. 40:34 quiniela mexicana respondio que ellos no pueden tener control sobre las regulaciones en cada localidad y que por eso es responsabilidad del jugador averiguar cuales son en su zona y que por supuesto sino es legal le recomiendan que no apueste asi que ya lo sabe, sin embargo como la tentacion de apostar es grande, le recomiendan...... 21:05 que mejor hacer sus apuestas con sus ami

they haven't changed the legal status of those 26 states in this case who according to the latest legal ruling until it changes or there's a stay event ruling, this is against the law to force us to do something. in most case what is applies to the state is whether they do... they can't make changes to their medicaid program. these are states on the brink of bankruptcy, about to have other fiscal holds explode and they're being told you can't change anything about your eligibility levels when maybe you'll get some money three years from now for this other expansion to newly eligible people. that's what's troubling governors who can't pay for education, can't pay for the rest of their governments and they're wondering why they're being held up for this particular medicaid expansion. >> the judge had the power to decide to issue an injunction, he chose not to. for the entire country to stop getting... receiving the benefits of this legislation because one judge has decided that he has a particular ruling doesn't make sense for the millions of americans already receiving the benefits. it d

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bring change but unfortunately that hasn't been the case but i don't understand i mean how is that legal you know it's one thing i guess you're used to these days when you're traveling that you might be you might have your belongings searched in terms of you know your clothing and your luggage and you might be questioned but to copy people's personal private information off of their laptops off their cell phones or cameras even journals. well in our view it's not legal and in fact we filed a lawsuit in an attempt to put an end to the practice we represent an individual in a couple of different organizations who are challenging this is fish in the search policy we think it violates a couple of different provisions of the constitution where they could buy later the fourth amendment restrictions on unreasonable searches and seizures and also the first amendment as you were saying people carry all sorts of deeply private and personal information on their laptops and their cell phones from their family photographs to their financial records and the idea that the government has the absolute ri

>> well, was the legal requirement being met?there was the occupying powers had power including on the list to act as effectively as police. there were legal requirements to respect of those people and the british military forces had lawyers attached to them very greatly to ensure we were meeting those obligations, and that was our responsibility. on the wider end of this if you're talking about the extent to which the cpa were working in cooperation with the u.n., it was absolutely a requirement and an obligation under 1483. my perception is that up until the terrorist attack on the u.n. on the 19th of august 2003, cooperation between the cpa and the u.n. was increasing, and i went to baghdad in early july, and i saw him there and talked with him. it was gradually building up. there was 100 people at least in the compound, but for that attack, i think, because of the reputation among other things, the fact he couldn't be ignored, and by that stage, you had bremmer imposed who was an interesting character, but wanted to achieve s