HEY ! Even though I am from the opposite side of the aisle.

You got to "LOVE" Willie Brown )
- He has been a Good
- - and Faithful Public Servant.
- - - Who has Served the State of California,
- - - - and the People of San Francisco very well.

God Bless Him, amen, Amen. AMEN !

~ RHF
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On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 07:29:04 GMT, Roger Halstead
wrote:

In New England a group is suing the pilots flying out of a local
airport because they don't like the noise and there is nothing illegal
about what the pilots are doing. So, by harassing the pilots by
filing lawsuits they figure they can force them out. It may work and
it may backfire if the pilots counter sue for harassment.

This was tried in the San Francisco Bay Area some years back.
Flight patterns, changed for environmental reasons, brought outgoing
flights over housing south of San Francisco. After a number of
nuisance suits had been won in small claims court, Willie Brown, then
speaker of the assembly got a law passed preventing such suits. To
avoid problems with laws designed for specific entities (and probably
to minimize opposition), he managed to write the law so narrowly that
it applied only to SFO and one tiny airport up in Siskiyou County that
had no interest in the legislation.


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