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• Litigation and Tax Quartet Join Sheppard Mullin San Francisco

  - 2008-10-10

  Peter S. Hecker, Neil A.F. Popovic, Anna S. McLean and Joanne M. Garvey have joined the San Francisco office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as partners. Hecker, Popovic and McLean join the firm's Business Trial practice group, and Garvey joins the Tax practice. The group most...

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• UC Berkeley tree sitters to be fenced in

  - 2007-08-29

  A UC Berkeley construction crew began fencing off the tree sitters in an oak grove in front of Memorial Stadium this morning. University officials said the 8-foot fence barrier was being erected for safety reasons in advance of Cal's opening football game with the University of Tennessee on...

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• UC Berkeley still hopes to settle city suit

  - 2007-08-24

  BERKELEY -- With less than a month before the trial for a city lawsuit against University of California, Berkeley, to stop construction of a $125 million student athletic center, Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau said Thursday the university is still interested in reaching a settlement outside court. But...

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• UC Berkeley still hopes to settle city suit UC Berkeley still hopes

  - 2007-08-24

  BERKELEY -- With less than a month before the trial for a city lawsuit against University of California, Berkeley, to stop construction of a $125 million student athletic center, Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau said Thursday the university is still interested in reaching a settlement outside court. But...

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• Corrections

  - 2005-12-26

  CORRECTIONS: In "Opportunity to Excel" in our Nov. 14 issue, the photo showed Mayumi and Charlie Pierce at Contra Costa Community College, not UC Berkeley. Also, in "From Debt to Dispossession" in our Nov. 28 issue, the number of bankruptcy petitions prior to the October 18 deadline (when a new...

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• UC pays more to settle lawsuit

  - 2005-05-26

  SAN FRANCISCO -- UC Berkeley will more than double its annual payments to its host city to $1.2 million to settle a February lawsuit challenging a sweeping long-range development plan that city officials claimed would clog the already-bursting city with more cars and buildings. Berkeley city leaders...

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• Berkeley and UC are now at peace

  - 2005-05-26

  SAN FRANCISCO -- UC Berkeley will more than double its annual payments to its host city to $1.2 million to settle a February lawsuit challenging a sweeping long-range development plan that city officials claimed would clog the already-bursting city with more cars and buildings. Berkeley city leaders...

  Tags: FINANCE, Litigation, payment, settlement, Transportation, University of California at Berkeley

• Cal to settle lawsuit with increased annual payments

  - 2005-05-26

  SAN FRANCISCO -- The University of California, Berkeley, will more than double its annual payments to its host city to $1.2 million to settle a February lawsuit challenging a sweeping long- range development plan that city officials claimed would clog the already-bursting city with more cars and buildings. ...

  Tags: FINANCE, lawsuit, Litigation, payment, settlement, Transportation, University of California at Berkeley

• Berkeley reconciles with university

  - 2005-05-26

  SAN FRANCISCO -- UC Berkeley will more than double its annual payments to its host city to $1.2 million to settle a February lawsuit challenging a sweeping long-range development plan that city officials claimed would clog the already-bursting city with more cars and buildings. ...

  Tags: FINANCE, Litigation, payment, settlement, Transportation, University of California at Berkeley

• City-Cal deal near on long-range plan

  - 2005-05-24

  A settlement appears close in the city of Berkeley's lawsuit against UC Berkeley's long-range development plan despite complaints that the deal has been brokered without enough public review. "The excess of confidentiality about these details is way beyond what is reasonable," Berkeley City Councilmember Kriss Worthington said...

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