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More On Immigration
I'm wondering if this person was attracted to Mexico's $5-a-day minimum wage... Perhaps if OUR minimum wage was only $5 a day, then that would be the end of immigration to America, legal or not.— July 9, 2010 2:41 p.m.
Will For-Profit Colleges Make Us Forget Subprime Mortgages?
RE #6: My experience is that it actually doesn't take all that long for insightful students to be fair-or-better judges of sources of questionable quality. This ability to recognize doubtful sources is sped up when they work in groups having access to objective standards for academic or professional writing submissions to peer-reviewed journals. With community colleges being the main entry point for adults looking to upgrade résumés while those same institutions are cutting back on course offerings, something has to give. The easiest, least expensive option (in terms of tax-money expenditures) is for students to self-study then challenge the low-end academic prerequisites, moving themselves ahead of those who shun the course-challenge option. As for those students who fall prey to the TV ads telling them they can have a degree and a job in only a few months at Non-Accredited Tech: Let the buyer beware.— July 9, 2010 2:34 p.m.
Recipe for writing a successful neighborhood blog
1. I never mention a meat product unless it's grist relating to the sausage mill. 2. Holding a grudge is better than dropping one on one's own foot. 3. No comment. 4. If I don't mention Encantostan or San Diego in general, I post to the non-specific "open forum" category. 5. Clever is as clever does!— July 9, 2010 1:58 p.m.
Tentative Ruling: Sanders Must Give Deposition
RE #33: ... maybe WAS a movie star, now a rehab recidivist?— July 9, 2010 1:32 p.m.
Comic Relief is Dead
"I just ate a Twinkie so I have legal defense for what I wrote." Proof that comedy here is not quite dead yet? The Reader says blogs are for BLOGGING, whatever that is. http://www.google.com/search?q=blog+definition— July 9, 2010 1:20 p.m.
Judge Confirms Ruling; Sanders Must Give Deposition
The court shall impose a monetary sanction under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 2023.010) against any party, person, or attorney who unsuccessfully makes or opposes a motion for a protective order, unless it finds that the one subject to the sanction acted with substantial justification or that other circumstances make the imposition of the sanction unjust (Cal. Code of Civ. Proc. § 2025.420 at (d)). Time for the City Treasurer to bust out the checkbook? If so, when does anyone think Hiz Honor will clue us in as to the amount of the damage, or will it just get folded into the cost of a new City Hall?— July 9, 2010 1 p.m.
Tentative Ruling: Sanders Must Give Deposition
Looking at the case 37-2009-00092899-CU-WE-CTL Register of Actions, there is a hearing set for City's Motion for Summary Judgment on the case, or in the alternative, summary adjudication of selected parts (MSJ). MSJ hearing has been rescheduled several times, with it currently set for 9/10/2010 10:30AM Dept. C-61 (Judge Meyer) With the up-coming MSJ hearing, it is damn difficult to imagine that Hiz Honor will not be deposed, especially since MSJ was requested BY DEFENDANT CITY OF SAN DIEGO, wanting to get the whole "truth" out BEFORE it has to go to trial in October 2010. I know from limited personal experience that preparing Plaintiff's Opposition to Motion for Summary Judgment can require what Judge Hofmann called "herculean" effort... and mine without attorney was not successful.— July 9, 2010 12:10 p.m.
Immigration Reform
Having opened the door for discussing criminals, we need to know what kinds of crimes have been allegedly committed. Generally, the Constitution recognizes "high crimes and misdemeanors". Subsequent Acts of Congress now break these into three classes. (1) Felonies are the serious ones, usually with fines in the tens of thousands-to-millions range and/or imprisonment for many years. (2) Misdemeanors include some sort of incarceration of less than a year and possibly fines as well. (3) Infractions can only include fines, but no imprisonment as a loss of liberty. If aliens not admitted through a legal port of entry are criminals, then what sort of criminals are they? Without further definition by United States Code Title VIII, could one assume that an infraction may be alleged, not a misdemeanor or felony? Is an alien, who has allegedly not been legally admitted, a "person" as described in the Fourteenth Amendment? Is not such an allegation required to be proven under due process by trial or other means? Can any person be deprived of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment? If any person can be so deprived, then what is the effect of the Constitution of the United States of America and its amending Bill of Rights with respect to any person and their potential loss of life, liberty, and/or property by arbitrary government action? It should be noted that aliens who are proven to be not admitted through a legal port of entry (8 USC § 1101) are not incarcerated or even fined (but may be accused, held and tried for other crimes, just like you or me), but are merely immediately deported, detained while awaiting deportation, or ordered to come back for another hearing.— July 9, 2010 11:15 a.m.
Tentative Ruling: Sanders Must Give Deposition
RE #16: Even if answers rise to the level of obstruction and perjury, a good examining attorney can get the kind of responses that will cause other deposition subpoenas for others' witness testimony to be issued shortly. Hiz Honor's deposition, delayed or not, won't be the last.— July 9, 2010 10:40 a.m.
Tentative Ruling: Sanders Must Give Deposition
RE #14: By Cal. Code of Civil Procedure, a witness or her/his attorney can object to a question (perhaps even citing self-incrimination). Objections can be significant enough to cause a halt to the deposition until the objection is heard by the case-assigned judge, perhaps months later. Better to rephrase and re-ask, then go with what one gets (certified court reporters being expensive by the hour...). Before I and others were to be deposed in a matter involving a local power utility which shall remain un-named, the utility holding company's lead attorney requested that he be allowed to call Judge Yuri Hofmann by telephone for instant rulings on any at-deposition objections I or my fellow plaintiffs-without-attorney might have in early to mid-2009. Judge Hofmann's "NO!" shook the courtroom and caused other attorneys waiting for their later 10:30-scheduled hearings to snicker loudly.— July 9, 2010 10:37 a.m.