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Tentative Ruling: Sanders Must Give Deposition
"You can watch the process today, Department C-61, 10:30." Hopefully Mr. Hall from the U-T will be there, having at least monitored the Superior Court website for the tentative ruling post last night. This morning's early chest pain is too much for me. I won't make it. Having lost the tentative ruling and with little chance of getting it quashed (motion to quash subpoena would have been earlier alternative or concurrent move relative to protective order), the next move will be to negotiate a delayed deposition or limit to a written deposition, giving time to reflect before answering. People, you should be amused by the fact that comments following Mr. Hall's article point to the Reader as the best source of information on the Kessler mess in this burg.— July 9, 2010 10:15 a.m.
City Trying to Block Deposition of Sanders
Copy of Tentative Ruling at: http://sdreader.stickywebs.com/kesslermayordenied…— July 8, 2010 5:27 p.m.
City Trying to Block Deposition of Sanders
FLASH, FLASH, FLASH RE: #14 "SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, "HALL OF JUSTICE "TENTATIVE RULINGS - July 08, 2010 "Event Date: 07/09/2010 "Time: 10:30:00 AM "Dept: C-61 "Defendant City of San Diego brings this motion for a protective order to preclude the taking of Mayor Jerry Sanders' deposition in this matter. "The general rule in California and federal court is that agency heads and other top governmental executives are not subject to deposition absent compelling reasons." [Westly v. Superior Court (2004) 125 Cal. App. 4th 907, 910] "An exception to the rule exists only when the official has direct personal factual information pertaining to material issues in the action and the deposing party shows the information to be gained from the deposition is not available through any other source." [Id., at 911] "Plaintiff contends that his termination was motivated by his cooperation with Detective Vile, Agent Cook, the Ethics Commission, and with a HUD investigation. According to plaintiff, Mayor Sanders was upset that plaintiff distributed the police investigation report to the Ethics Commission, and for speaking to the SDPD and FBI. These factual issues are material to plaintiff's complaint. "Based upon the evidence submitted in relation to this motion, it appears that Mayor Sanders has direct personal factual information pertaining to these material issues and the information sought is not available through any other source. "THEREFORE, the motion for a protective order precluding the taking of Mayor Sanders' deposition is DENIED."— July 8, 2010 5:23 p.m.
Sense and Nonsense
RE #8: Item 335 on next Tuesday's San Diego City Council agenda (July 13, 2010) is to erase $288 million in loans to Redevelopment Agency, where loans were at least in part from HUD community development block grants that were illegally allowed to gather interest (instead of used immediately?) according to HUD Office of Inspector General's report. I am hoping that my earlier blogging had something to do with City Council yanking it from June 22 agenda and postponing the loan "extinguishment" consideration until July 13. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/encanto-gas… Above blog post has link to HUD Inspector General's report http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/encanto-gas… A link to the tentative results from June City Council meeting where part of the relevant resolution at item 203a was adopted (didn't blog about that) but loan "extinguishment" at 203b was postponed to July 13: http://dockets.sandiego.gov/sirepub/pubmtgframe.a… Because the City website keeps "rotating" the directories where supporting documents are stored, three of those documents are now archived at http://sdreader.stickywebs.com I still kind of wish that my blog posts were eligible for that $500 neighborhood blog prize...— July 8, 2010 4:57 p.m.
Galaxy Quest
This was an enjoyable sci-fi spoof, including the security officer modeled on the character in the Babylon 5 television series. A large popcorn-soft drink combo with red vines for this one.— July 8, 2010 2:20 p.m.
Seismic Sensation
I heard yesterday's quake was on one of those "capillaries"... I think I'm gonna build me an anti-earthquake hot air balloon in the back yard as my preferred escape route. I seem to have access to a lot of hot air lately.— July 8, 2010 2:10 p.m.
Luna’s lacuna
I wonder if there are any complaints relating to recently purchased SAP software that is/is not working properly between City departments...— July 8, 2010 1:55 p.m.
Will For-Profit Colleges Make Us Forget Subprime Mortgages?
Maybe this is totally wrong, but I believe that prospective students past high school would be greatly served by a minimalistic preparatory experience in intensive research skills would greatly reduce the cost of educating adults in this country. That, and a reasonable use of colleges' course challenge policies. Once students are taught how to do research, recognize legitimate sources of academic information, and write legible research papers, they ought to be able to amass sufficient background in any subject on their own to effectively challenge courses, reducing their costs in obtaining degrees. After all, the Internet isn't just for twitter-heads... Basic math skills couldn't hurt; being able to make and attach charts of various sorts always seems to add some sort of authoritative flair to one's academic work.— July 8, 2010 1:52 p.m.
Snooping
That Harry Reid-Qualcomm-Verizon-Keating Five connection is... rather interesting.— July 8, 2010 1:38 p.m.
Let Them Eat Cake
I applaud any politician who is office only months at a time. Perhaps municipalities could consider drafting council members in a manner similar to Superior Court jury service at dollars a day. It would save the public an awful lot of money compared to elected officials' salaries now... and looking over whatever the draftees propose to do, the various city attorneys would actually have to earn their pay!— July 8, 2010 1:07 p.m.