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

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

. -- with the legal unit. as she stated. with regards to the party, i would be an agreement to drop the penalty somewhat, if that is what the commission would want. maybe not two times, maybe something in between would be fair to me. it has been there for a while and there has been rent collected on the unit. but there is a permit, and hopefully that is what we get. president hwang: thank you. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, miss salvador, do you have anything else to say? in rebuttal? you have more time if you want to, but you don't have to. you need to come to the podium if you want to speak. >> well, i am appealing the 9%, whatever, a penalty that was imposed, because right now i'm having a hard time. i am just employed. i am just trying to get something to pay for my mortgage, and right now it is hard. thank you. the tenants have not paid up to now. vice president fung: you know what the laws is. the law is they can impose a penalty up to nine times. this board can only reduce it to a minimum of tw

i would not say that in many instances, legalizing -- "legal" is a strong term. in our business and sales business, we try to avoid that term. it has many implications. to say something illegal is -- to say something is legal or illegal has a lot of implications. we cannot really say. we can say it does permit it or not permit it. what is or is not authorized is a different statement. we have to be mindful. one thing i wanted to say about jeremy pose a question was, there are quite a few very good people in san francisco to go to if you want to legalize something that had been done without a permit in the past, or you want to get a permit for every model that was done or a bathroom that was added downstairs without a permit, and you feel like your uncle maybe was -- may have done it properly. oftentimes, it is no big deal. it is a good thing to do. there are many companies that specialize in doing just that. you can do that. it depends on your goal. if your goal is to sell the property or to avoid neighbor complete -- there could be two different goals with two d

is not to make the unit legal. it is to remove it. >> she wants it so she does not have to move, and we are basically doing status quo, and i cannot just have an illegal unit with a complaint there indefinite. i need some sort of resolution, but as long as i can see things moving forward, that is fine. i am in no rush to convict her, and i have been working with the lawyer and herself, but when i do try to talk to her, she calls it harassment, so i cannot talk to her directly. >> can you tell us how long she has been in that unit? >> i think she has been there 19 years. >> i cannot remember when this has been heard before. have you made progress in discussions on helping her find a new unit? >> no, she basically is not looking for anything. i look every now and then. my brother looks, and we did find this week something with a waiting list of three months to one year opening up maybe four blocks from our place, and one of us visited it, and it looked like a pretty good place with one unit, so if she could get on on

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

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was very upbeat saying he had been in the legal system but once the verdict was being held his head in his hands . as he was leaving he appears to have lost confidence in the british legal system now this is a case that has opened up for the viewing of the general public the. old brushes make the rich and what they got up to back in the nineteen ninety's the wild east as we called it back that we're talking about the history of sums of money off shore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash. or of kools five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the strength of a handshake with no documentation which of course has made this case a very difficult one to judge it's cruel to london to school building billion ads along with their own two rushes megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who want to round these courts area in their shades in a menacing way but he's got his old case says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that i'm over it intimidated him into selling shares in russian metals and oil compani

high profile court jewel with a london based compatriot in one of the most expensive cases in british legal history the judge dismissed the. challenge from controversial. and the trial which offered a rare glimpse into the lives of the super rich. has more on that. the final verdict in this case found against bodies which means that he won't receive a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was also going for from. what i want to promote himself was not in court this morning the scheme was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system but once the verdict was being read he held his head in his hands and as he was leaving he appears to have lost confidence in the british legal system now this is a case that has opened up for the viewing of the general public the moon. of russia's mega rich and what they got up to back in the nineteen ninety's the wild east as we called it back that we're talking about used to have sums of money offshore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash. or o

we have not used legal force in those instances. where there have been aggravated assault, officers gave many blocks over 10 minutes, at which point an officer contacted him to keep him from moving to a more populated area while still in possession of a weapon and could be a danger to others. >> please let him finish his statement. >> when turned on by the suspect had no other option at her disposal other than legal force. good -- lethal force. would a taser have made a difference? i honestly believe in that instance as with other instances, having a less lethal option would have made a difference. in canvassing all the other police departments, they all have tasers. memphis, tenn., as of 2011, has gone to tasers. i believe out of respect for the commission to make policy for the police department, that at least the discussion should be made. i referenced the discussion of the police commission meeting, but out of respect for the public, and having suffered 10 homicides in june, and knowing this would be a heavily debated topic, i d

roof in russian which has become a common hollins in the legal circles here in london as a result of this case is that he did make regular payments to put his old skate up full of political protection but he says that they weren't anything to do with the partnership they were often made in huge cash sums up to five million dollars hundred a free. cash and totaling several hundred million dollars he says that he paid. in a private jet that he bought him a french chateau and he also bought him jewelry for his girlfriend but he wanted five point six billion dollars on top of the one point two billion that he received back in two thousand and two for which this has been one of the biggest civil trials ever held in british legal history it's been hundreds of hours and resulted in millions of dollars worth of legal fees so we've heard the results of this case . when this time around but we may see more cases of this nature here in london. the timeline of all the claims and counterclaims in this multibillion dollar wrangle or. get more insight into what went right inside the courtroom earli

multitude of different legal systems. for example, think about the british monetary system before they went metric. it was a lot of different monetary systems that grew together. anyone old enough to have been in britain and be really confused when you try to make change, remember, my mother said it was the most confusing thing she'd ever encountered is so many shillings, crowns, and pents, and nothing adds up in proper multiples of each other, and at the time, the english were well-known for being honest and took a hand full of coins and asked how much does it cost. all right, one of those, two of these, and they worked it out. [laughter] the metric system, think about inches, feet, hands; right? pounds, all of these different things, and none of them add up to anything that makes any sense, and some way i don't know how many gills are in a pint anymore. they grew over time. frankly, i like it, even though i don't understand it, i love the british imperial system of measures. legal systems are a bit like that also. only