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Judge Hears Arguments on Nishi Suit, Inclined to Stick with Previous Ruling

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 09, 2019
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Judge Hears Arguments on Nishi Suit, Inclined to Stick with Previous Ruling

Judge Peter Williams listened to approximately 90 minutes of arguments by both the petitioners represente ...

Judge Peter Williams listened to approximately 90 minutes of arguments by both the petitioners represented by Patrick Soluri and defendants represented by former Davis City Attorney Harriet Steiner an ...

October 09, 2019
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Judge Denies Nishi Suit in Tentative Ruling

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 08, 2019
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Judge Denies Nishi Suit in Tentative Ruling

Barring a hearing today, it appears that Judge Peter Williams has denied the petitioner’s attempt to stop ...

Barring a hearing today, it appears that Judge Peter Williams has denied the petitioner’s attempt to stop the Nishi student housing project. If the decision by Judge Williams holds, this would be the ...

October 08, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 9 – An Unlawful Arrest

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 26, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 9 – An Unlawful Arrest

Anthony Hernandez was arrested and spent a month in custody because of racial profiling and presumptions ...

Anthony Hernandez was arrested and spent a month in custody because of racial profiling and presumptions by the arresting officer. It might have been far worse had it not been for the persistence of h ...

August 26, 2019
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Sacramento City Sues Homeless, Seeks to Ban Them from Part of Downtown Area – Civil Libertarians Balk

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|Date: August 19, 2019
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Sacramento City Sues Homeless, Seeks to Ban Them from Part of Downtown Area – Civil Libertarians Balk

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Remember the old television Westerns where ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Remember the old television Westerns where the Sheriff runs someone he doesn’t like out of town on a rail? (Wikipedia: Riding the rail was ...

August 19, 2019
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Sac County Settles Massive Jail Lawsuit – Promises Millions, and Staff Improvements

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|Date: June 21, 2019
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Sac County Settles Massive Jail Lawsuit – Promises Millions, and Staff Improvements

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The lengthy consent decree – hundreds of pa ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The lengthy consent decree – hundreds of pages, nearly dwarfing “The Mueller Report” – settling a massive federal civil rights lawsuit aga ...

June 21, 2019
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ACLU Sues Overall Removal of Polling Place in First Amendment Dispute over Black Lives Matter Banner

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|Date: June 11, 2019
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ACLU Sues Overall Removal of Polling Place in First Amendment Dispute over Black Lives Matter Banner

Registrar Violated Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno's First Amendment Rights (From Press Release) ...

Registrar Violated Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno's First Amendment Rights (From Press Release) — The ACLU Foundation of Northern California today filed a lawsuit against Fresno County's chie ...

June 11, 2019
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Wrongful Arrest Leads to Lawsuit As Police Arrest Innocent Man on Gun Charges

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 22, 2019
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Wrongful Arrest Leads to Lawsuit As Police Arrest Innocent Man on Gun Charges

Anthony Hernandez was arrested and spent a month in custody because of racial profiling and presumptions ...

Anthony Hernandez was arrested and spent a month in custody because of racial profiling and presumptions by the arresting officer. It might have been far worse had it not been for the persistence of ...

May 22, 2019
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ACLU Sues ICE Contractor, Calls for Investigation of Abuse of Women Immigrants

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|Date: May 22, 2019
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ACLU Sues ICE Contractor, Calls for Investigation of Abuse of Women Immigrants

Women were shackled, forced to ride in a boiling, windowless van for hours (From Press Release) - The ACL ...

Women were shackled, forced to ride in a boiling, windowless van for hours (From Press Release) - The ACLU Foundation of Northern California and Goodwin Procter LLP today filed a lawsuit against ICE t ...

May 22, 2019
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City Will Consider Appeal as Judge Sides with Trackside Opposition (Updated)

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 19, 2019
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City Will Consider Appeal as Judge Sides with Trackside Opposition (Updated)

Judge Sam McAdam stuck with his original ruling despite a strong push by attorneys for the city and real ...

Judge Sam McAdam stuck with his original ruling despite a strong push by attorneys for the city and real party of interest, Trackside, to get him to reconsider at a hearing in mid-April. Once again, J ...

May 19, 2019
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FPPC Will Not Further Review Complaint against No on L

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 16, 2019
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FPPC Will Not Further Review Complaint against No on L

The Vanguard received a letter from the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), via a reco ...

The Vanguard received a letter from the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), via a records request from the city in which Alan Pryor, the Treasurer of No on Measure L, received a let ...

May 16, 2019
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Nishi Petitioners Attempting to Add Cause of Action

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 10, 2019
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Nishi Petitioners Attempting to Add Cause of Action

Earlier this week, the parties were in court, where Nishi is the latest project being challenged. The pe ...

Earlier this week, the parties were in court, where Nishi is the latest project being challenged. The petitioners, a group calling themselves the Davis Coalition for Sensible Planning, with named pet ...

May 10, 2019
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Lawsuit Filed against Sacramento Sheriff for Hitting Protestor and Fleeing Scene

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|Date: May 07, 2019
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Lawsuit Filed against Sacramento Sheriff for Hitting Protestor and Fleeing Scene

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Fallout from the hugely controversial shoot ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Fallout from the hugely controversial shooting death of unarmed Stephon Clark a little more than a year ago by city of Sacramento police h ...

May 07, 2019
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Update: Judge Upholds Tentative Ruling; Denies Writ to Stop Lincoln40

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 23, 2019
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Update: Judge Upholds Tentative Ruling; Denies Writ to Stop Lincoln40

Judge Stephen Mock two weeks after hearing oral arguments on his tentative ruling, on Friday issued a rul ...

Judge Stephen Mock two weeks after hearing oral arguments on his tentative ruling, on Friday issued a ruling that adopts the tentative ruling. He writes: "Having considered all matters submitted in th ...

April 23, 2019
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Will Judge Reconsider Trackside Tentative Ruling Based on FAR Arguments?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 16, 2019
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Will Judge Reconsider Trackside Tentative Ruling Based on FAR Arguments?

Last month, Judge Sam McAdam ruled against the city and for the plaintiffs on the challenge by the Old Ea ...

Last month, Judge Sam McAdam ruled against the city and for the plaintiffs on the challenge by the Old East Davis Neighborhood Association to the Trackside approval. The city disagreed with the rulin ...

April 16, 2019
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Commentary: Plaintiff Puts Forward Bad Arguments during Lincoln40 Hearing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 09, 2019
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Commentary: Plaintiff Puts Forward Bad Arguments during Lincoln40 Hearing

It was always going to be an uphill battle to get a judge to change his mind on a tentative ruling, but w ...

It was always going to be an uphill battle to get a judge to change his mind on a tentative ruling, but what we saw on Friday from Patrick Soluri was just bad. One might go so far as to call it embar ...

April 09, 2019
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Judge Hears Arguments in Lincoln40 CEQA Case; Will Rule within 90 Days

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 08, 2019
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Judge Hears Arguments in Lincoln40 CEQA Case; Will Rule within 90 Days

Judge Stephen Mock already ruled mostly in favor of the city and the developer a few weeks ago in denying ...

Judge Stephen Mock already ruled mostly in favor of the city and the developer a few weeks ago in denying the writ filed by Patrick Soluri, attorney for Susan Rainier. While the judge also denied tha ...

April 08, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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My View: What Purpose Did This Lawsuit Serve Other Than to Harm Struggling Students?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 23, 2019
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My View: What Purpose Did This Lawsuit Serve Other Than to Harm Struggling Students?

Lawyers for Susan Rainier argued that their client had “been harmed” by the city’s “failure to provide en ...

Lawyers for Susan Rainier argued that their client had “been harmed” by the city’s “failure to provide environmental documents that accurately and fully inform interested persons of the Project’s true ...

March 23, 2019
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Reaction to Lincoln40 Tentative Ruling – Guarded Optimism Among Students

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 22, 2019
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Reaction to Lincoln40 Tentative Ruling – Guarded Optimism Among Students

Wednesday’s tentative ruling in favor of the city and the applicant of Lincoln40 has given the city, the ...

Wednesday’s tentative ruling in favor of the city and the applicant of Lincoln40 has given the city, the applicant and, importantly, the students hope that student housing – which has been approved by ...

March 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Despite Heated Rhetoric, There Might Not Be Much to the Campaign Finance Allegations

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 25, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Despite Heated Rhetoric, There Might Not Be Much to the Campaign Finance Allegations

As I wrote up the article on the city council’s public announcement of closed section actions of referrin ...

As I wrote up the article on the city council’s public announcement of closed section actions of referring complaints to the DA and the Fair Political Practices Commission, I took a look at the letter ...

February 25, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Plaintiff Lawyers in Sacramento County Jail Lawsuit Ask Federal Court to Grant Summary Judgment to End ‘Inhumane’ Jail Conditions

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 13, 2019
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Plaintiff Lawyers in Sacramento County Jail Lawsuit Ask Federal Court to Grant Summary Judgment to End ‘Inhumane’ Jail Conditions

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A motion for summary judgment was filed Tue ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A motion for summary judgment was filed Tuesday by Plaintiffs’ counsel – in effect, asking for a win without a trial – in a massive class ...

February 13, 2019
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