Saturday, November 17, 2012

California high speed rail lawsuit

  • California high-speed rail project faces crucial decision in lawsuit over ...

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's plan to begin building its $68 billion high-speed rail system in the Central Valley hinges on a crucial court decision that could stop the project in its tracks if a judge agrees to a request for a delay from farming ...

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  • California high-speed rail faces court decision Friday

    An injunction could prevent the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which is overseeing the project, from buying land and continuing to survey and do other work on the project's start.

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  • CA high-speed rail faces crucial court ruling

    Central Valley farmers have asked a Sacramento Superior Court judge to grant a preliminary injunction that would prevent the California High-Speed Rail Authority from buying land and continuing work on the project. A green light in the injunction could ...

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  • Judge denies injunction to halt high-speed-rail

    SACRAMENTO, CA - The future of California's controversial 800-mile, $68 billion dollar High Speed Rail Project hinges on the outcome of a lawsuit filed by farmers, water districts and other interests in the Central Valley. That's where the first ...

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  • High-Speed Rail Jobs Plan May Give Priority To Down-On-Luck Workers

    Their hopes were boosted during the California High-Speed Rail Authority meeting in Sacramento, where bullet-train planners also took their first step to reducing their system's footprint on agriculture -- approving a $20 million effort to compensate ...

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  • State oversight panel approves contract for high-speed rail land

    On a 3-0 vote at the state Capitol in Sacramento, the board adopted a standardized contract that the California High-Speed Rail Authority will use in negotiations with property owners along the proposed route from Merced to Bakersfield, as well as in ...

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  • In California's Central Valley, farmers fight in their fields and court to ...

    Curran, 70, says he's caught city folk from the state's $69 billion high-speed rail project "sneaking" onto his land to survey his farm, where California is getting ready to begin building its biggest public works project in history next year. The ...

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  • Post-election expectations re: high-speed rail

    But as far as the relationship between the federal government and the states goes, Scribner does think the Obama administration will do what it can to support California's high-speed rail project. "The big decision points are all going to be happening ...

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  • High-speed rail debate heats up

    After the federal government approvedthe first leg of California's high-speed rail project in mid-September, controversy has surrounded the project on the Peninsula.

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  • State panel vote may clear path for high-speed rail land deals

    The state Public Works Board, which includes the directors of the state's Finance, General Services and Transportation departments, will meet at 10 a.m.

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  • High-speed rail efforts gain momentum across the country

    In California, plans to build an 800-mile high-speed train line between Los Angeles and San Francisco moved forward last month after the federal government approved a section of the route between Merced and Fresno.

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  • Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, SportsStories assembled for the ...

    ... paving the way for elections likely to end his party's three-year hold on power; California's plan to begin building a massive high-speed rail system could be stopped in its tracks by a crucial court decision; Lawyers for Penn State ask to put on ...

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  • California's Landmark Global Warming Law Becomes Real This Week

    Jerry Brown to delay the auction, but his office has declined. There are rumors the association or other business groups may file a last-minute lawsuit, seeking to stop the auction. If it goes forward, ... Where the money goes: To a state fund that ...

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  • Proposition 30 wins: Gov. Jerry Brown's tax will raise $6 billion to prevent ...

    Overcoming decades of anti-tax sentiment in California, Gov. Jerry Brown's Proposition 30 -- billed ... They argued that the state was wasting money on high-profile projects such as high-speed rail and did not need more tax money. Munger's half-sister ...

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  • BC-CA--California News Digest, CA

    Jack Markell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a deal to draw California-based fuel cell manufacturer Bloom Energy to Delaware with millions in state taxpayer dollars and higher rates on Delmarva Power customers ...

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  • Allysia Finley: Jerry Brown vs. the 99%

    The organization's failure to disclose its financial backers, the lawsuit claimed, could "cause great and irreparable harm to the voters of California by potentially denying them vital information." Mr. Fox won't comment on the case, but ... The ...

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  • California Environmental Law Marked for Biggest Change Since '70

    Rubio said he wants to streamline environmental reviews to avoid long delays on projects such as the proposed extension of the subway in Los Angeles and student housing near the University of Southern California, which was stymied by a rival developer ...

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  • Results mixed in South Valley

    ... supervisor in Kings County overcame scandal to win re-election. Meanwhile, Visalia voters soundly rejected a proposal to change council member elections from citywide voting to district elections, but the vote could leave the city open to voting ...

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  • Calif. voters retain death penalty despite costs

    California's plan to begin building a massive high-speed rail system could be stopped in its tracks by a crucial court decision.

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  • The Argentina Scenario

    In a similar vein, the National Labor Relations Board's 2011 filing of a lawsuit against Boeing, which built a plant in South Carolina to avoid strikes and delays to its Dreamliner, revealed the Obama administration's willingness to insert itself into ...

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