L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
A judge said Friday that he plans to invalidate a 2006 settlement between the city of Los Angeles and two companies, CBS Outdoor and Clear Channel Outdoor, that allowed them to convert 840 conventional billboards to a digital format.Former City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo negotiated the agreement with the two companies after they sued the city over its 2002 billboard regulations.Digital signs...
Legal Pad (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
... he said. "And we're lucky to have them. But we need a lot more." Former L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and former Santa Clara County Supervisor Blanca Alvarado delivered keynotes. Receiving scholarships were Alvaro Moises Huerta of Stanford Law School, Monica Guzman of Santa Clara University, Aidin Castillo of UC-Davis and Debra Urteaga of Hastings. — Scott Graham
SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
... chief William Bratton endorsed San Francisco DA Kamala Harris for state Attorney General — and not Rocky Delgadillo. People in the Valley's 2nd council district have so little to argue about, they're haggling now over whether a debate scheduled at Woodbury University is in L.A. or Burbank. Sheriff's deputy Abel Escalante may have been killed as payback for the LAPD shootout on Drew...
LAist (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Photo by Omar Omar via Flickr This is not Controller Wendy Greuel and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's fight, but they inherited a 2008 controversy that pinned two elected officials against each other in court. Last year, then-City Controller Laura Chick wanted to do a performance audit on then-City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office. Delgadillo successfully blocked it with a...
aids-write.org (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
carmen trutanich pulled a rocky degadillo tuesday, submitting a new draft version of a medical cannabis ordinance 15 minutes before the city’s PLUM committee (planning, land use & management) meeting began, rendering informed discussion about the proposed law impossible at the public hearing. Medical cannabis draft regulations were on the agenda tuesday in PLUM committee. [...]
aids-write.org (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
... before the meeting was scheduled to begin. Like two previous versions prepared by his predecessor, Rocky Delgadillo, the new version does not recognize legitimate sales of cannabis within the membership of a legally organized and operated medical cannabis collective. Instead, the ordinance seeks to regulate collective patient gardens – a regulatory strategy rejected by the committee...
