Judge Likely Will Allow LAUSD to Go on Bisno Site
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By Alison Hewitt COPLEY NEWS SERVICE  A judge indicated Friday that he will allow the Los Angeles Unified School District to study a contested site for a new school on the privately owned Ponte Vista property on Western Avenue in  San Pedro.
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In a petition before US District Judge Kathleen Kollar-Kotelly, the State of California, along with five other states and the District of Columbia, said they would ask US District Judge Kollar-Kotelly to extend all the provisions of government oversight to 2012, in a status meeting scheduled for today.
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Plans for a holiday village in part of the Pembrokeshire National Park take a big step forward with a judge's ruling.
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By Dnichols@recordnet.Com, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep.
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By Anne Dudley Ellis, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--[TEXT]Clovis Unified School District will expand and reconfigure the site for an elementary-through-high school complex planned east of Fresno, possibly attracting opposition from property owners.
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By Therese Poletti and Nicole C. Wo, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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The ability to use race when assigning students to public schools is on the line in two cases before the Supreme Court on Monday that could produce the most important decision on school desegregation in decades.
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By Andre Briscoe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 12--Del Rey Oaks residents will have another month to examine initial plans for future development on former Fort Ord property that the soon fall under city control.
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By Thomas Content, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 3--A Dane County Circuit Court judge said Friday she may request oral arguments before she decides whether a federal ruling last week should apply to the We Energies power plant under construction in Oak Creek.
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By Melanie Cleveland, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Dec.
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By Karen de Sa, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 6--Mansions that block views from miles around will be tougher -- if not impossible -- to build on unincorporated hilltops from Cupertino to East San Jose, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has decided.
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(InfoWorld) - A California judge is likely to order a Berkeley city initiative back on the ballot because of local officials' mishandling of electronic voting machine data, a public-interest lawyer arguing the case said Friday. In a preliminary ruling Thursday, Judge Winifred Smith of the Alameda County Superior Court indicated she would nullify the defeat of a medical marijuana proposal in Berkeley in 2004 and order the measure put back on the ballot in a later election. A hearing on Friday morning in advance of a final ruling brought out nothing that indicated Smith would deviate from her preliminary decision, said attorney Gregory Luke, who is representing Americans for Safe Access. The medical-marijuana advocacy group is suing the county, assisted by the technology rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation. The case points to the dangers of electronic voting systems, which make it harder to ensure fair elections, Luke said. Electronic voting machines have been widely adopted in the U.S. since the disputed presidential election of 2000. Laws in California and some other states now require paper records of all votes, but the California law wasn't in place for the Berkeley election. Both sides argued their cases before Smith on Friday in a last-ditch hearing on the proposed sanctions, according to Luke. The hearing brought out nothing new that suggested Smith would change direction, he said. Americans for Free Access sought a recount of the vote on Measure R, which would have established procedures for opening marijuana dispensaries in Berkeley. It lost by fewer than 200 votes. A recount wasn't possible because the city didn't share the necessary voting records, in violation of election laws, Judge Smith ruled in April. In May,Â the county agreed to share some data. The county reused voting machines from Diebold Election Systems without saving sufficient data to carry out a recount or review the election process, Luke said. Officials failed to save key evidence even after the suit was pending, he said. Data from the vote in question has only been found on 20 of the hundreds of machines used in the election, according to Luke. In addition to ordering another vote on Measure R, Judge Smith's preliminary ruling called for the county to pay the $22,604 cost of the recount as well as attorney's fees and the cost of a trip to Diebold offices in Texas. Ordering a new vote is a rare move for a court, Luke said. "This is a very severe sanction. ... and it's warranted," he said Friday. Luke expects a final ruling in the case within two weeks. The county could appeal to a higher court if the ruling goes against it, he said. Attorneys for the county were not immediately available for comment.
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By Todd Wright, The Miami Herald  Dec. 17--A new dog park on Hollywood beach might be close to getting a trial run despite opposition from some beach residents and officials of the beach Community Redevelopment Agency.
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By Chuck Mcshane, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 10--The Wesley Chapel Village Council could vote as soon as Monday night on a controversial request for Extra Territorial Jurisdiction.
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School district needs to move the building to make way for a new high school. By Jon Zemke / Special to The Detroit News. John M. Galloway / Special to The Detroit News.
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By Advocate staff report  The Ascension Parish School System is looking for suggestions to improve its Web site.
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By Jeff Hood, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep.