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Published on December 02, 2009
CITY ILLEGALLY DESTROYED PROPERTY OF HOMELESS PEOPLE INCLUDING BLANKETS, PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS, AND PHOTOS OF LOVED ONES
ACLU Files Class Action Suit Alleging Policies Intended to "Harass Homeless People Into Going Away"
December 2, 2009
SAN DIEGO - In a series of aggressive raids in September and October, city workers escorted by police seized and summarily destroyed the possessions of homeless men and women. In a lawsuit filed today, the Dreher Law Firm and the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties call for a permanent injunction stopping the city from repeating the unlawful, unconstitutional policies and practices, because "No legitimate, lawful or moral basis exists for this wholesale destruction of people's property."
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Published on April 22, 2008
City to allow food-for-needy program
By Ronald W. Powell
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
PACIFIC BEACH - In a settlement lauded as a victory for religious freedom, a Pacific Beach church will be allowed to continue its Wednesday night ministry of feeding homeless people without the threat of fines or citations from the city of San Diego.
The agreement, approved Friday, settles a federal lawsuit filed last year by a lawyer for Pacific Beach United Methodist Church after the city's code enforcement office said the ministry was illegal.
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Published on Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Award-Winner Milks Big Bear
By Don Bauder
Ponzi schemes - in which early investors are paid off with funds from later investors - are most often tied to stocks, commodities, and currencies. But just a few years ago, when Southern California real estate was sizzling hot, Ponzi schemes made the scene, at least according to two San Diego-related lawsuits filed recently, one by the federal government.
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Published on February 22, 2007
Sleeping on sidewalks in San Diego is OK
United Press International, Inc.
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 22 (UPI) - It's now legal to sleep on the street in San Diego.
Under a settlement with homeless advocates, San Diego will stop handing out "sleeping tickets" to people asleep at night on city property, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Under the settlement, which took effect immediately, people are permitted to sleep on city property from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
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Published on October 5, 2006
He Loves the People No One Wants
By John Brizzolara
It is New Year's Eve, 2005. A cold rain lashes skid row at the corner of 16th and G Streets. David Ross, aged 71, pulls to the stoplight and hears a voice from the darkness at the base of the Ducati motorcycle shop. The voice echoes from within the walls of an indentation in the building, where an air-conditioning or heating unit once might have been, a concrete cavity barely out of the wind and wet.
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Aired on Sept. 19, 2006
San Diego police ticket city's homeless
By Amita Sharma
Reporter Amita Sharma talks with two attorneys and a homeless advocate about a lawsuit challenging San Diego city policy allowing police to ticket the homeless for sleeping in public. A similar lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles and a judge there declared the policy unconstitutional.
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Uncivilized
By Howard Hewitt
Scott Dreher '82 can't forget his first assignment for the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program.
He was given the case of "James," a homeless man owed money for distributing advertising flyers. The businessman promised the homeless worker $300 for the work. When James delivered the circulars and returned for payment, the business owner refused to pay and said, ..."
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Originally published on September 18, 2005
'Extreme' tragedy 'Ugly' mom sues ABC for nixing makeover
By MICHELLE CARUSO
LOS ANGELES - The producers of "Extreme Makeover" promised Deleese Williams "a Cinderella-like" fix for a deformed jaw, crooked teeth, droopy eyes and tiny boobs that would "transform her life and destiny."
But when the ABC reality show dumped the Texas mom the night before the life-changing plastic surgeries, it shattered her family's dream and triggered her sister Kellie McGee's suicide, says a bombshell lawsuit filed in L.A. Superior Court.
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Published on November 24, 2004
The Game Was Rigged
By Don Bauder
One misguided belief today is that if we lower tax rates of corporations and the rich, there will be less tax avoidance and evasion. Money stashed in offshore havens will float back to the U.S. Dubious tax-shelter deals will disappear. Bull. As tax rates go down, abusive tax shelters burgeon.
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November 19, 2004
Lawyers say S.D. police are violating Constitution
By Ronald W. Powell
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
San Diego police officers are violating the U.S. Constitution by ticketing or arresting homeless people for sleeping in public, a group of volunteer lawyers contends in a class-action lawsuit filed yesterday.
The suit, filed in San Diego federal court, said tickets and arrests for illegal lodging under the California Penal Code violate the civil rights of homeless people, as well as their constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
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| November 18, 2004 07:36 PM US Pacific Timezone
Dreher Law Firm Announces: Class Action Lawsuit against the City of San Diego and the San Diego Police Department Seeks Injunction against Homeless Sleeping-Tickets
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2004--Three San Diego law firms -- Dreher Law Firm, Cohelan & Khoury, and the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program -- representing nine homeless people, filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the City of San Diego and the San Diego Police Department today, seeking an injunction preventing further ticketing of homeless people for sleeping in public.
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September 09, 2004 03:33 PM US Eastern Timezone
Prudential ordered to pay Mexican almost $300,000
NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) - An NASD arbitration panel awarded almost $300,000 last week to a Mexican client who lost 20 years of savings after a broker at Prudential Securities embarked on what the client's lawyer called a risky strategy.
The panel found that Prudential, its broker Carlos Jimenez and manager Brian Talgo of the brokerage's branch in La Jolla, California, were jointly liable for mishandling the account of Ricardo Castillo, his lawyers said on Thursday.
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