jim has set the stage for what a class action is in the nature of .he problem the very fact that a class action is out there means that a facing what is commonly a billion dollars in damages, even if you think you have a 99% chance of prevailing, you have a financial incentive to pay a financial amount of money to get rid of the case. class actions resent a unique issue that you do not see in normal legation. unlike your typical little dacian, -- litigation, it will have involuntary members. everybody in this room is probably a member of a pending class-action somewhere. voluntarily or not. the attorney representing them is seeking a paycheck in the they are bothcess negotiating the release for and forients themselves. while they may negotiate the release separately, they know that every dollar they get for the class members is a dollar they will not get themselves. they will not necessarily see a mount that -- an amount that a paying client would pay. a class-action settlement problem because you have on one side, the dependent and they want to minimize their cost. you have the plaintif

this action constitutes the approval action for the project for the purposes of ceqa, pursuant to section 31.044hh of the san francisco >> item 2. sf 21234 proposed for continuance for february 20th. item 3, item 3: 2013.1529z a. starr; 4155 558-63622 904 22nd street - zoning map amendment - ordinance amending the zoning map, to re-zone the property located at 904-22nd street assessor's block no. 4106, lot no. 0155 from rh-3 residential, housing, three familyy to umu urban mixed usee; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. preliminary recommendation: adopt a recommendation for approval continued from regular meeting of december item 3, sf 31234 propose for continuance. >> item 6. item 6: 2013.1192q k. burns; 4155 575-91122 1541 filbert street - south side between van ness avenue and franklin street; lot 022 in assessor's block 0527 - request for condominium conversion subdivision to convert a three-story over garage, six-unit building into residential condominiums within a rm-2

as with the center for class-action fairness came in. n 2009, for the purpose of standing up, whereas they normally active class member would not have the answers to common complaint not a problem problem in the settlement. we realize we can create positive externalities by go away now, getting funding and coming in and doing pro bono work that is pro bono for the public good, representing class members in the settlement to get the notices they wired the attorneys getting the money and why am i getting nothing? we've had just really remarkable success. we mentioned similar accolades from the press. but we've knocked out hundreds of millions of dollars in unfair fees. with one some landmark appeals that utterly change the landscape of class-action settlement to change the way judges are looking at these things and we have done that, spending less than a million and a half dollars in our first four years. we are up to four attorneys now and we are looking to expand because our constraint is not that there are not objectionable class-action

genesis of the modern class-action bar, so to speak, and the modern class-action practice came about n the 1960's with a 1966 revision of the federal rules of civil procedure that developed what is called the opt out class-action. joine this point time, to a class-action lawsuit, you had to affirmatively opt in to the legal action. after this point in time, you have to opt out of the legal action, and if you did not do so, you will presumptively a member of the plaintiff class and were part of the litigation. since this time, there have been a number of critics of class-action litigation and the abuses inherent in this. one of the foremost is here today with ted frank, one of the leading reformers in this area as well as professor brickman, who has published extensively on this topic. this criticism has led to various reform efforts, both legislative and through the judiciary. for instance, in congress, for securities class-action litigation, a subset of the litigation involving so-called effects on the market that cause stock prices to be overinflated and then subsequently it falls w

most of the action is from the central bay down into the south bay. the band of very disorganized showers off to the east, you can see some east of san jose, pretty good shower there, south of alan rock, we're seeing a few more of those showers coming across santa cruz mountains. once it gets above the sierra, it falls in the form of snow. so snow showers tonight and tomorrow morning, so plan on winter-like driving at least on into sunday morning. the system is moving through very quickly, not sticking around at all for this holiday weekend. you will see hour by hour we'll lose the rain drops, and by tomorrow morning, just lingering showers around mount hamilton. high temperatures tomorrow in the upper 50s, low 60s, this is it in terms of the weather system in terms of the rain. you would like to see more this time of year for sure. that is all the system will give us. maybe wednesday for the north bay, you will see it there in the seven-day forecast. that will be the next chance of rain. i don't think we'll see much south of san francisco as the acti

constitutes the approval action for the project for the purposes of ceqa, pursuant to section 31.044hh of the san francisco administrative code 1234 >> >> item 16a:2013.0007bx b. bendix; 4155 575-91144 81-85 bluxome street - south side, between 4th and 5th streets, lot 018 in assessor's block 3786 - request for a large project authorization, pursuant to planning code sections 329 and 845.66 for the new construction of a five story, 65-foot tall, office building of approximately 55,000 gross square feet. under the large project authorization, the proposed project is seeking exceptions for 11 an obstruction over a sidewalk per planning code section 136 and 22 an off-street loading space sidewalk per planning code section 152.1. the subject property is located within the western soma mixed use-office wmuoo zoning district and 65-x height and bulk district. this action constitutes the approval action for the project for the purposes of ceqa, pursuant to section 31.044hh of the san francisco administrative >> item 16a:2013.0007bx b. bendix; 4155 575-91144 81-85 bluxome street - sou

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action. some of the more -- some of the more extreme executive actions that can be taken, for example, stoppingeportation, illegal immigrants, which is something a lot of progressives want the president to do because congress won't be tackling immigration reform like they -- later this year. some of those would give him a pushback from the public and pushback from republicans. you know, the wimpy ones are the safer ones. he still looks like a lame-duck president. it doesn't really solve the problem. >> you make a great point. there are limits to the executive actions because they don't have the full force of law behind them. great insight and we appreciate your coming in and hope you come back. have a good weekend. >>> new developments in ukraine's political crisis. the president's former vice president joining anti-government protesters. these pictures have been powerful all weekend. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. li

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and certainly all the actions that an agency like the e.p.a. takes are always being challenged by industries that object to them and often sometimes by states that object to them, like the caller's state government of texas, which is one of the most parapath etic anti-federal government litigators in the country. so there are checks. but most of the time the courts are finding that those actions are lawful. host: our last call from marie in new jersey. caller: thank you for taking my call. i just wanted to ask the gentleman there, why would they think it would be possible for the president to do these elective policies if it wasn't legal? he is a constitutional lawyer after all. since any e much president since he's been president. host: thank you for the call. guest: well, let's start with this. there are aspects of the constitution in which -- about which reasonable people can have reasonable differences. there are other aspects about which that is not the case. in some areas, what he is doing is, as he has said, perfectly legitimate under cu

we meant what the joint plan of action says. there can be no nuclear facilities either declared or une declared. if we find undeclared new nuclear facility, that's a cause of grave concern to all of us. it would be against the compliance require forked the joint plan of action. i can't today tell you what our response would be. i would imagine it would be quite, quite concerning and we would to respond in a very forcible way. >> do you have concerns if we were to impose new sanctions that our partners p5+1 would strike their own deal and leave us out is that a possibility a concern that the administration has? >> i think that's a possibility, of course. i think more broadly, senator, our ally and partners in the world are concerned, one of the reasons the captions regime has been as effective as it has been is because people have climbed on board with us particularly in our unit literal sanctions even when they don't believe in unilateral sanctions and tell us at every opportunity. they have, in fact, followed them. dealing with

in the other one, in the bridgette kelly civil action today. as the person who authored that e-mail saying it was time for traffic problems in fort lee, miss kelly certainly has relevant information about the subject matter of the committee's investigation. the committee is well within its right to ask miss kelly a state employee using state resources about the official state action to close access lanes to produce any further information she has. the effort to compel them to turn over those documents, and maybe to compel them to testify. that effort is now going to court. and it will likely take months. the battle is joined on that front and you can read all about it, if you're interested. you want to know what else happened today? in addition, this happened today. in all its glory. it's been a big day. we got these today. the town of ft. lee, new jersey which was the object of punishment in the bridge scandal for what happened on that bridge, it was ft. lee, whatever reason, we still don't know. but ft. lee was the object of punishment. and th

the board? >> seeing none, we have three actions, under special order of business. can i have a motion and a second please on the approval of the 2013-2014 initial proposal for a successor contract from the san francisco unified school district to the united educators ofsan francisco (uesf) teacher and paraprofessional units.. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. >> and i think that we need a reading of the recommendation by the lovely miss kristina wo ng. >> the board of education approves the addendums for 2013, 14, balance score cards for the single plan for the student achievement and the amount of the eif funds that were used in 2013, for the centralized services to provide additional support for english learners at school sites, the documentation for this starts on page 24, would the commissionerers like me to address the background information? >> commissioners? are are you able to vote on that without that background information presented at this time. yes. >> i don't think that it is necessary, thank you. >> okay. >> that is the end of your presentation. ok

seeing no comments on the administrator budget it is not an action item and the next business is 5 d the workshop on the recognized payments for july 14th and 2015 - 2016 discussion >> commissioners that's that time again to recognize the schedule payment process as you recall the state resolution law requires the action submit those payments schedules so every single payment we're contemplating in the next period beginning in we're - june through december of 2014 must be identified on that schedule. so it's simply allows expenditure authorities again with our approval and in many cases the oversight board pursuant to the dissolution law. with that, i'd like to ask the deputy director to walk you through this item >> good afternoon. so i will begin on our agenda for the raps 2014 - 2015 workshop. i'll briefly go over the basic terms to we're familiar with that and go over our timeline and i'll do in breakdowns of totals by funding source and by project and program areas so you'll have a sense of brown where the men is going. i will go over the numbers that are in your paychecks since

i'll be presenting this item and the action we're seeking is you're ready approval of our greater 20/20 contracts with two firms. this is covering the background the competitive procurement proposals we've covered and talk about the enterprise requirements we're fulfilling. so like any public agency or nonprofit or business we have regular needs to communicate we do the sales tax and the other things we do in oppose. historically that's been managed both through staff as well as through an call contracts we're the base but we rely on others. with that, it was time for us to rebid the past on call contract and we administered a procurement progress. we issued a request for qualifications and in the packet concludes what was articulated in that. by the december 17th due date we've received 9 proposals and statements of qualifications and those were evaluated by representatives from the pta as well as the sfmta. based the scoring of that panel we choose to interview the top teams conducted on january 9th. and then based on the results the interviews of the top teams are the ones we're re

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will the prime minister tell the house what action is being taken to ensure areas affected have all the necessary support they need? >> let me update the house on this very serious situation. i don't accept the government has been slow. we've been having meetings on a daily basis. there are currently 328 properties flooded. 122,000 properties were protected last night because of the flood prevention in place and 1.2 million protected since december and seven severe flood warnings. and 69 flood warnings in place which means more flooding is expected and immediate action is required. the environment agency has 219 flood alerts in place. a serious situation with so many people losing electricity. over 60,000 homes have been reconnected overnight. but as this morning there are 8,000 homes without power. whatever is required, whether it is dredging work on the river or support for our emergency services or money for flood defenses this government will help those families. >> not withstanding the prime minister's response he knows that many do feel the response has been too slow and left on t

just doesn't make sense to us more money is then that the device industry the action khan set some ambitious targets for twenty fourteen evidence of whether it has succeeded or not will be on coming under the microscope. cold cold and martinis. for more our economics correspondent sean whelan is with me in studio so that it stops the fingers of them positive that could be centered in terms of what was reached today voluptuous out for you in terms of saying there is no stop the momentum of change going on and the employment front i think that the number of sectors that are affected by this isn't just concentration of one or two areas of the fourteen sectors of the economy of the cia so make sure you've seen job growth coming in ten of them sector sorts of dirty white tea spread across the economy is also with geographically white tea spread. all eight of the regions of the concrete are measured by the cso sole job growth over the last hear about is important because it stopped us and dublin or corporate goal a phenomenon many more it is spreading out across the rest of the country as well whi

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in this includes the sanctions and the overseas actions. our banking has largely cut off the iranian banking sector from this. this includes investments in the energy sector around oil and gas production and because these remain in place come iran will continue to struggle to finance imports and its government operations the continuing impact in the keeneland kilted impact means that the iranian economy will continue to continue for the foreseeable future. while we remained to providing all of the things that we agree to, we remain hard at work to enforce a sanctions regime of the unprecedented force and scope. this includes the negotiations to come. to ensure that this continues, we are engaging in form foreign banks and governmental counterparts. many others from the administration reaffirmed the point that the sanctions and this is narrow and the sanctions that were made in place are broad as part of the effort in this is the united arab emirates to carry this message. iran is not open for business. we have made clear that we will continu

the action is just winding down. they're digging out in portland. we took you there live yesterday, the flakes had first started flying, now more than nine inches of fresh powder. ron mott is in portland once again. he has got, yes, he has the red valentine's day scarf on. what do you got, ron? >> good day to you. last night, this was perfectly shoveled, the snow i really like. not anymore, it rained last night for a few hours. now this stuff has a lot of moisture in it. good for snowballs. i imagine a lot of kids throwing snowballs around portland, around maine, this afternoon. they had the day off for school, which is a little surprising considering that they got nine m i inches of snow. because they had a lot of ice on the roads this morning, they decided to cancel school. last night the big concern was the wind. we got some wind gusts here, 40, 45 miles an hour. you see it dropped some smaller branches on the trees. they had a little coating of ice on are digging out

but the president said we need to act. action. the american public did not send us to the congress of the united states not to do the public's business. not to invest in growing their economy. not to vote to make sure they get paid a wage that they can live on. not to allow them to fall through the cracks because we don't increase the unemployment insurance rate. not to not help the economy by passing comprehensive immigration reform, that i know others will speak about. while i'm optimistic that when we act together, america will succeed, women will do better, all of us will do better and we will, the phrase i've used so often, make it in america. that's what americans want to do. that's what young people want to do. they want to have a sense that they can make it in america. that's why people kim to -- came to america, to make it, to seize the opportunity that is the american dream. while i'm optimistic, i'm concerned when mr. huelskamp says, quote, that's what our leadership said. if we get past this one, referring to the extens

high pressure keeping much of the action north of the golden gate.t rain but the biggest totals will be from san francisco and north. up in the sierra, the snow above 6,000 feet. the snow levels are high. above a mile high. still two to four feet of rain. two to four feet of snow above 7,000 feet. wind gust to 45 miles an hour. heaviest cells concentrated in the north bay over the next 12 hours. still some of them sinks out. the coast range that runs from up at concord all the way down to east of san jose, they'll get good cells as well. most rain will be in the mountains but it's going to be wet all weekend. we are looking for rain sunday, more rain coming in on wednesday after a break on monday and tuesday. we get a chance to try it out a bit. as we get toward the weekend thursday and friday we're partly cloudy. plenty of rain. we'll keep you up to date here on kpix5. ann. >> golf is not just a game. how it's helping boost high school graduation rates thanks to this week jefferson award winner. >> good morning everybody. are you staying dry? well,

the right wing sect of the so-called white wing sect started i went down there in the thick of the action i now filed this report for you to see. this does not look like a truce at all last night the opposition and the president managed to agree on a cease fire but in the morning the right wing sect the core of the protest the hardcore radicals decided to go on the offensive from the independence square which generally looks like a battle zone right now almost seventy two hours of fighting burning everything in its boss no right now we saw that the police have been pushed away from this barricade they have been occupying for the last forty eight hours last night i took a walk here it was all covered with the police now you can see for yourself the right wing's are again reinforcing their barricades we literally had to dodge bullets during several of our attempted. live broadcast because it was very very unsafe here right now the police are pushed back we can switch is still here flash burns exploded and we can still see more of course just being thrown the situation is very very turns we

what was behind the buoyant action? let's find out. typically, gold, bonds and stocks still rally together. so mike, what gives here? >> it's interesting. in the past we have frequently talked about equities and said not too hot. not too cold, just right. i would actually argue that taking a look at the economic data everybody was looking for something they wanted and everybody got a little that they did want, basically. we have some indications basically in the number of new jobs created that suggested things aren't too hot. we saw something in the unemployment that said it was not too cold. i'm not necessarily a complete buyer of all of that though, because i think you had a sharp sell-off. there's a little bit of covering and then maybe people got out of hand. i look at this and i'm not really as enthusiastic as everybody else. so reality still remains. stocks are not incredibly cheap, economic growth is not particularly buoyant. actually, the fact that the vix dropped as far as i'm concerned is good news because if you share my view

so i mean by that sprinkles and seek a deal with the recent actions in africa. it combines vials that takes place. we just had a disingenuous plates from the rest of the piano like cramps like i just invite to a friend's final three was bowling and asked me to speak in the colonies the suggestion is that it was james made up of the century we are in the center of the these questions since today so it is complete eleven and events. until now we know it it's the kind of a week she would not donated to the button on your relations with the vauxhall do bees. he listens to have had a consequence underwood today the prices last five thousand hearings in addition the film all down into a twenty five jam institutional said concerning violence there winning the outsider vintage prize at the berlin international film festival wrapped up just as fun a lot more about the film fest full and our other news reports online and he believed off the heat to stay with us. i learned chairman with the job anytime anyplace the show with the windchill jo and her friends. four weeks frie

the federal lands? >> yes, that's an interesting question. all agencies in all federal actionto evaluate this underneath it. and so for example if blm is leasing for cool development, they need to consider the greenhouse gas part of that. and there are questions about technical stuff. >> you guys have guidance on natural gas remapped or are you in the process of that? >> we have put out the guidance on how the agency should look at this. and so i think the agencies by and large are following this and i hope that my successor is pretty close to having some additional guidance. but other than that, they tend to be very case specific with what you have to analyze and how. but they definitely do have to consider those. >> another issue where i thought you did incredibly good work and didn't get a lot of attention, i think we now have this rule out on the isolated wetlands issue in terms of the supreme court decision in interpreting data in a way that doesn't eliminate all of the protections in certain parts of the country. this is a pretty important type of environmental protectio

is the $1 billion support something the president to do through executive administrative action? >> information provided to you this morning made clear that his budget would include a new $1 billion climate resilience fund then this is part of a broader approach to dealing with the challenge represented by climate change that the president put forward in his climate action plan. visit to fresno will demonstrate his concern that communities across california struggling with the impact of one of the state worst droughts in over 100 years and the president is committed to ensuring they are doing everything they can to help farmers, ranchers, smoke unities -- small communities being affected. the president will announce efforts to provide support and relief to those feeling the pain of the drought. full list of these commitments but among them, speeding up the delivery of up to $100 million in livestock disaster assistance. while these livestock programs took over a year to get out, the usda is committed to cut that time by more than 80% in begin sign up in april. also the team millio