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Kindertown granted reprieve until November hearing
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:54pmEl Dorado County Superior Court Judge Warren Stracener has ruled there is no harm to the public to keep Kindertown day care center open until next month's final hearing. The South Lake Tahoe facil...
Appeals court overturns CA city's marijuana law
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 12:03pmLOS ANGELES (AP) - A California appeals court has struck down the city of Long Beach's efforts to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, ruling the efforts conflict with federal law banning pot u...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Legal experts predict massive closures of medical marijuana dispensaries
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 10:20amA new law and court decision are about to wreak havoc upon nearly all medical cannabis dispensaries in California. Unfortunately for the dispensaries, they are about to face legal challenges they c...
League appeals Sierra Colina decision
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 12:59amBack to court – that is where the Sierra Colina project is going because the League to Save Lake Tahoe is appealing last month's ruling. U.S. District Judge Robert Jones in Reno had ruled in the d...
League appeals Sierra Colina decision
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 5:25pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The League to Save Lake Tahoe filed an appeal Wednesday to an August court decision that would have allowed a South Shore housing development to move forward.The environm...
Quiet Council Meeting Yields Interim Budget
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 8:53amBy Li Terrell
The South Lake Tahoe City Council met Tuesday to pass an interim budget in an effort to have more time to work out labor negotiation and budget shortfall issues that have the community up in arms. There were no comments offered by council or the public, and the motion passed unanimously. Prior to the meeting there was a closed session for bargaining units to meet, and following was another closed session for council to hear the latest of the negotiations.
Lake Tahoe law firm sets bar for environmental cases
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 5:03pmNEWS RELEASE — With recent success guiding the approval process for major projects at Lake Tahoe, the accomplishments of law firm Feldman McLaughlin Thiel reflect a rising correlation in the spectacular mountain community between a healthy environment and a healthy economy.
City tells employees to come up with budget solutions; final meeting slated for Sept. 27
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 9:15amBy Li Terrell
To a crowd of about 200, the South Lake Tahoe City Council met to hear the 2011-12 Budget Proposal from its city manager and finance director on Thursday. There was an obvious tension between the council and members of the public who attended the meeting, though the general sentiment of the council and city manager is that the deficit issues are not their fault, and that employee sacrifice is what is required to balance the budget.
IHOP gunman's mental issues surface in court documents
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:58amWithin three hours of a mass shooting last week in which four people were killed and 11 injured, investigators knew they were dealing with a mentally unstable man, according to recently released police testimony seeking search warrants for shooter Eduardo Sencion's two vehicles and his brother and parents' homes, as reported in the Nevada Appeal. Go here for the story.
Stateline man sentenced to jail for road rage incident
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 5:16pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - On Aug. 22, a Stateline man was sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years formal probation for a road rage incident in December 2010, according to court documents.Willi...
Charges in Broc's Puppies case being reduced
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 5:20amCharges against Dennis Franks, one-time owner of the now closed Broc's Puppies in South Lake Tahoe, will be reduced. It was decided in El Dorado County Superior Court this week the new grand theft...
Sierra Colina housing project prevails in court
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 5:20pmThe League had sued the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency – citing transfer of land coverage as its main issue. Sierra Colina in Stateline won in court on Aug. 30. Sierra Colina, outlined in orange, in...
Injunction denied in Angora burn area restoration
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 08/25/2011 - 6:27pm
An injunction to halt fuel reduction work in the Angora Fire area was denied last month after a lawsuit was filed by two environmental organizations.
A three-person panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an emergency injunction was not needed after a U.S. District Court judge in Sacramento, Garland Burrell, upheld the agency's environmental
analysis. The suit was brought on by Earth Island Institute and Center for Biological Diversity over the protection of a rare black-backed woodpecker.
September hearing set in South Lake Tahoe general plan lawsuit
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 08/25/2011 - 6:18pm
By Heather Gould
The League to Save Lake Tahoe and the city of South Lake Tahoe are engaged in a tennis match worthy of the U.S. Open. A volley of charges and counter-charges have been flying back and forth regarding the League's recent lawsuit againt the city over the city's recently adopted general plan.
The plan guides overall growth and development within the city.
California looking to curtail protests at
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 12:12pmBy Michael Doyle, Sacramento Bee. WASHINGTON – California and other states seeking to curtail funeral protests are following a politically popular but legally disputable path. Supreme Court, here th...
Redevelopment on hold as projected deficits widen
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 5:05pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif - The future of the South Tahoe Redevelopment Agency remains in up in the air as the California Supreme Court considers a legal challenge to bills that would eliminate redev...
Tennis players being aced out of court availability
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 12:51pmLake Tahoe Community College has offered tennis classes for years, and will again this fall. It used to be taught at Tahoe Paradise Park, then South Tahoe Middle School and now at South Tahoe High Sch...
Court halts dismantling of California
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 10:23amBy Marisa Lagos, San Francisco Chronicle. The state Supreme Court put the brakes Thursday on a plan to dismantle redevelopment agencies in California, posing yet another challenge to California's ...
Paper or plastic?
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 10:02amTAHOE/TRUCKEE - You faithful readers will recall that a year and a half ago we were critical of a Court of Appeal decision allowing a consortium of plastic bag manufacturers to sue under the Califo...
GUEST COLUMN: The fox in charge of the hen House
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 6:00amEl Dorado County Superior Court Judge Steven Bailey may have thought he was doing the right thing, according to the law, when he ruled on June 30 that The Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Bo...
9th Circuit clears USFS logging at Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 8:10amRENO, Nev. (AP) - A federal appeals court cleared the way Monday for the Forest Service to begin logging near Lake Tahoe, where a wildfire burned more than 250 homes four years ago.In making its...
9th Circuit asked to block logging at Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 12:32pmRENO, Nev. (AP) - Conservationists have asked a federal appellate court to keep the Forest Service from starting logging operations next week in an area near Lake Tahoe where a wildfire destroye...
Supreme Court knocks $62 million hole in budget
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 11:29amIn a unanimous decision Thursday, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled the state can't take the $62 million in cash from the Southern Nevada Clean Water Coalition.That money was used to balance the curre...
Woman gets five years probation in Incline stabbing
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 5:14pmINCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Washoe County District Court Judge Robert Perry has sentenced a woman to probation in connection to the grisly slaying of her husband more than a year ago at Lake Tahoe, cou...
