JURY GRANTS $1.95 MILLION JUDGMENT IN TELECOM SUIT
Updated 3:12 p.m. Wednesday, March 10
A jury has granted a $1.95 million judgment to a company that sued the city over money it said it was owed from Alameda’s former telecommunications business. The judgment came after a three-week trial in federal court.
Alameda Municipal Power General Manager Girish Balachandran said city officials are considering appealing the [...]
City caught in sewer suit
Alameda is one of seven cities and sewer districts being sued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of that agency’s effort to prevent sewage spills into San Francisco Bay.
On November 20, the environmental agency handed administrative orders to Alameda and six other entities in the East Bay Municipal Utility District’s sewage collection system [...]
UPDATED H CASES COULD SETTLE
Updated 4:04 p.m.
The Alameda Unified School District and businesses who sued over the Measure H parcel tax could settle the cases, attorneys working on them said today.
David Nied, an attorney working for the district, said the district and yacht merchant John Beery have come to a basic agreement in principle to form a committee that [...]
UPDATED Businesses appeal to public on school tax
Updated 11:48 a.m. Friday, July 31
Facing serious challenges to their lawsuits to invalidate Measure H, local businesses are taking their case against the school parcel tax to the public.
Steve Meckfessel, an owner of the marina at Marina Village, asked the school board and Superintendent Kirsten Vital to consider amending the tax in a half-page advertisement [...]
UPDATED: CITY PREVAILS IN BELT LINE CASE
Updated 2:15 p.m. Thursday, July 9
The city has prevailed in the latest legal appeal over the Alameda Belt Line property. And they said in a just-issued press statement that the owners of the Belt Line have no plans to take the case any further, ending the years-long legal battle over the land.
Judges Terence Bruiniers, Barbara [...]
Judge finalizes latest H case ruling
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Mark Burr denied local yacht merchant and landowner John Beery’s request that he judge in Beery’s favor in the local yacht merchant’s case to invalidate the Measure H parcel tax.
Judge Burr had issued a temporary ruling denying Beery’s request to essentially decide the case in his favor, saying that [...]
Juge seems set to nix snap ruling for plaintiff in H case
Updated 2:19 p.m. Wednesday, July 8
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Mark Burr has made a tentative ruling in John Beery’s case against the Measure H parcel tax. Judge Burr has denied Beery’s request that the judge immediately rule the case in his favor, opting to keep the case going instead.
The judge previously ruled against [...]
Local businesses seek mediation in H case
Local business owners asked the school board Tuesday night to consider allowing them to move their legal efforts to invalidate Measure H into mediation.
The school board offered no public comment on the matter, with President Mike McMahon saying the board can’t comment on pending litigation.
Former city councilman Hadi Monsef sent the board a letter on [...]
UPDATED Attorney raises legal questions about Point plan
Updated 1:23 p.m. Sunday, June 14
I’ve spent the last day or so following up on a letter an Oakland attorney sent to City Attorney Teresa Highsmith claiming that the proposed Alameda Point development initiative – the signatures for which are due in by end of the day Monday – has some misleading language in it [...]
Attari suit settled
The city and the family Dr. Zehra Attari, who died after accidentally driving her car off the end of Grand Street and into the Oakland Estuary in November 2005, have reached an out-of-court settlement of the lawsuit the family filed in the wake of her death.
The city will pay the family $2.25 million but will [...]
College of Alameda prayer case moves forward
A federal lawsuit filed by two College of Alameda students who were threatened with suspension after one prayed with a sick teacher is moving forward. The students are arguing the school violated their free speech rights.
Fashion design and merchandising students Kandy Kyriacou and Ojoma Omaga were in December 2007 that they would be suspended from [...]
