Cases
Counsel for Bayview/Hunters Point area sanctuary in action for recovery of damages to restore the ecological/educational sanctuary; this resulted from MUNI/contractor drilling negligence causing a secondary effluent pipeline rupture beneath the sanctuary and destruction to over 30% of the sanctuary.
Article:
http://sfexaminer.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.toxic.0715w
Local counsel for the hemp industry’s challenge in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to the DEA’s October 9, 2001 “Interpretive Rule” banning the human consumption of hemp oil and food products containing any quantity of THC
Motions/Briefs:
Urgent Motion for Stay
http://www.votehemp.com/PDF/hemp_group_9th_cir_motion_f.pdf
Reply to Urgent Motion
http://www.votehemp.com/PDF/hemp_group_9th_cir_mfs_repl.pdf
Articles:
This Bud’s Not For You (Time) February 18, 2002http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020218-201911,00.htmlHemp Imports Run Afoul of DEA Rule (Los Angeles Times) January 16, 2002http://latimes.com/business/la-000004006jan16.storyHemp-Food Firms Fight U.S. Ban, Deny Marijuana Link (Washington Post) January 13, 2002http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37475-2002Jan12.html
DEA Rule Bans Hemp Food Products (National Law Journal) December 3, 2001
http://www.globalhemp.com/News/2001/December/dea_rule_bans_hemp_food.shtml
Protesters Say Hemp Is Food Not Drugs (Berkeley Daily Planet) December 8, 2001 http://www.420.cc/forum/DCForumID14/410.html
Criminal Cookies, page 2 (Santa Barbara Independent) December 2001
http://www.independent.com/downloadz/pdfs/787pdf/NF%20Nick%20&%20Matt%20787.pdf
Counsel for Project Artaud (Artist co-op) in its Superior Court challenge of the final approval of a Live/Work development after Live/Work Moratorium passed by Board of Supervisors
Article:
Activists Sue to Halt S.F. Lofts, April 29, 2001 (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/28/MNW148241.DTL
Lead counsel in Federal (Clean Water Act) and State (common law) actions brought against two South Orange County, California water districts for repeated raw sewage spilages
Published Decision:
44 F.Supp.2d 1084 (C.D. Cal.) 1999
Unpublished Decision:
234 F.3d 1277 (C.A.9 (Cal.)) 2000
Article:
Beach Blanket Stinko (OC Weekly) April 30, 1999
http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/99/34/news-coker.shtml
Also covered by the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition and Orange County Register
Additional Article:
Treasure Island, Laguna Beach (1999)
Open space advocate in land use controversy
Saga of Treasure Island at Climax (Orange County Register/Treasure Island Development) April 27, 1999
http://www.ocregister.com/local/features/growth/moratorium/tix27w.shtml
Organizations
Eco Soul, Inc.—Legal Consultant (1997-Present) www.ecosoul.org
Educational 501c3 Non Profit distributing a Regenerative Hydrogen Fuel Cell learning kit in tandem with a hydrogen based educational curriculum
Bayview Opera House, Inc.—Member, Board of Directors (1999-Present) www.bayviewoperahouse.org
501c3 Non Profit arts education organization in the largely African American community of the Bayview community in southeastern San Francisco
H.E.A.L., Inc. (Healing Events in Artistic Language)—Incorporator/Attorney of Record (2000-Present)
501c3 Non Profit working to heal racism through the arts; Exhibited at the 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Durban, South Africa
Spirit of Life Institute—Minister of Holistic Legal Advocacy (2001-Present) www.solinstitute.org
Non-denominational spiritual “church” underneath the Association for the Integration of the Whole Person, a 501c3 Religious Non Profit