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Class action suit caused retaliatory suspension, claims class action suit
Clients protest San Diego's only Vietnamese-speaking lawyer being barred from representing them in Social Security cases
Hundreds of disabled Vietnamese refugees in San Diego have filed a second class action suit in federal court, claiming that Alexandra Nga Tran Manbeck, the only local attorney fluent in Vietnamese, was suspended as retaliation for an earlier class action …
Proxy war between Paul Jacobs and San Diego contractors in Sac Town
More Qualcomm and Nathan Fletcher questions arise as powerful San Diegans square off in California capital over union construction deal for taxpayer financed Kings basketball arena
In what could be a precursor of things to come in San Diego's great mayoral race of 2013, war has erupted between Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson and the San Diego-based Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction. The first volley came …
City awards $350,000 settlement to woman who was beaten by police officers during a Chargers game
City council to give woman $350,000 for injuries she suffered at the hands of police officers during a Chargers game.
On Monday, September 9, city councilmembers will write a $350,000 check to a woman who was beaten by police officers during a Chargers game in 2012. The woman filed a lawsuit back on May 2 of this year after she …
Calexico border agents seize cash headed for Mexico, meth headed for U.S.
Agents seize 59 pounds of meth and $654,900 in separate busts
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Calexico port of entry have been busy in recent days, making busts going each way at the border. On Thursday, August 29, officers seized 59 pounds of methamphetamine from a 40 year …
Consultant Marco Li Mandri asks City to pay $25,000 in fees for the long-delayed Barrio Logan Maintenance Assessment District
Li Mandri wants the City to pay the remaining balance on contract with Shea Properties to set up the district.
There's a pot of money sitting on the east side of the Coronado Bridge in Barrio Logan. The money has been collected to get the Barrio Logan Maintenance Assessment District off the ground and running. Unfortunately for the 82 property …
Escondido man guilty of double-murder for shooting pregnant girlfriend
Ruben Anthony Cepeda convicted after 2 week trial
After less than four hours deliberations, a jury declared Ruben Anthony Cepeda guilty of two counts of second-degree murder for shooting his pregnant girlfriend. The jury found true the allegation that Cepeda fired the weapon, but did not find true …
Aguirre: "Put essentials first and wants second."
To enter mayoral race with call for water, infrastructure, electricity improvements
Former City Attorney Mike Aguirre will definitely enter the mayoral race, stressing that San Diego "must put essential things first...put needs first and wants second." Previously, he has been unsure of whether he would enter, despite reports that he was …
Navy finds recruitment slogan fails to connect
Nearly three years after introducing a new recruiting slogan, the U.S. Navy has discovered through a $40,000 focus group study targeting sailors and officers in San Diego and Norfolk, Virginia, that the tagline hasn’t been as effective as top brass …
Exec's race for mayor casts light on Qualcomm bribery charges
Newly minted Democrat and Qualcomm development director Nathan Fletcher could shoulder increasing burden of corporation's concealed political and legal baggage as campaign unfolds
As the size and quality of San Diego's reporting corps has fallen due to layoffs and budget cuts resulting from the new Internet media economy, inside observers note that some of the city's biggest stories have increasingly gone unreported. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/sep/04/52604/ …
Two county lawyers disbarred
Moral turpitude involved in Shaber, Biedebach cases
According to the September California Bar Journal, two county lawyers have been disbarred. Craig Shaber, who had been convicted n 2010 for felony tax evasion, was deemed to have been involved in moral turpitude. Shaber and his accountant partner raked …
Alleged robbery was just a weapons check, attorney suggested
Cops were directed to a Facebook page to find their suspect
A gangster who showed another man a large knife and told him to empty his pockets may have just been checking to see if the other man had any weapons, his attorney suggested in court today. It sounded more like …
U-T owner Manchester moves more big money into San Diego GOP
As mayoral election approaches, Koch-linked publisher continues flow of money to local party, and is raised in political poker game by public employee union for Democrats
With the multi-million dollar special election to replace fallen Democratic mayor Bob Filner rapidly approaching, the big money proxy power war expected by inside political watchers appears to be shaping up on schedule, with major cash contributions to both Democratic …
Sheriff's department to seek reimbursement for search-and-rescue costs
Complaining of “ill-equipped and reckless hikers” that have tied up resources and sapped from the budget due to search-and-rescue operations, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department announced a new policy Friday (August 30) that henceforth, anyone requiring rescue due to illegal …
Escondido men accused of burglary with baseball bats
Antonio Amador and Brandon Martinez deny crime spree
Two young men from Escondido are due in court Wednesday, September 4, facing six felonies each, after arrest on suspicion of creating an overnight crime spree August 21, 2013. It was a little after midnight when a woman on Kenora …
San Diego second safest big city for drivers
San Diego and Phoenix best for drivers, Los Angeles and Philadelphia worst.
A report issued last Tuesday by Allstate Insurance Company called San Diego the second safest big city for drivers in the country. The report notes that collisions in America’s Finest City are 14.6% more likely to occur than the national …
Did interim mayor Todd Gloria have the authority to rescind stop-use order for Jack in the Box?
City charter states interim mayor does not have discretionary power.
The City Attorney's office has issued a memo detailing the powers, or lack of, held by San Diego's interim mayor Todd Gloria. The August 29 memo explains the powers as laid out in the city charter. “During the time when …
Aguirre wants secure water supply, lower electric rates, infrastructure upgrade
If no politician addresses these crucial issues, he will run for mayor
NBC Channel 7 reported tonight that former City Attorney Mike Aguirre will run for mayor. The station is jumping the gun. "I have not made a definitive decision," he says. Aguirre told me tonight that there are three critical issues …
Filner issues a Stop-Use Order against North Park Jack in the Box. Todd Gloria rescinds.
Order prohibits use of drive-through.
In his final hours as Mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner had some parting gifts of his own to give away. One was for residents of North Park living near the Jack in the Box on Upas and 30 Street. …