Stockton City Council’s Vote on Wal-Mart Outlets is Positive Change of Direction In what can be viewed only as a dramatic change of course, Stockton City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to support a measure that would reject construction of a new Wal-Mart Supercenter in Weston Ranch. It would prohibit retail stores that exceed 100,000...Read More
The Record August 21, 2007 STOCKTON – A San Joaquin County Superior Court judge has given preliminary approval to an $8.2 million settlement resolving antitrust claims against three international pharmaceutical companies who sold the hypertension drug Adalat or its generic equivalent. The case was filed in 2004 by Stockton law firm Herum Crabtree Brown on...Read More
The Record – Business Section August 18, 2007 Attempt to build Supercenter is nearly 5 years old. LODI – Wal-Mart representatives, worried they may have to provide aid to Lodi’s downtown and help preserve local farmland in order to build a Supercenter here, have quietly stepped up lobbying the city’s elected officials this month. The...Read More
The Record August 6, 2007 Stockton attorney Steven Herum recently was named Northern California Super Lawyer by Law & Politics for the second consecutive year. Herum was selected from approximately 47,000 lawyers in Northern California. He also was selected as 2006 Land User Lawyer of the Year by the California State Bar Association’s California Lawyer...Read More
The Stockton Record By Reed Fujii March 21, 2007 Hundreds of delivery truck drivers in California are being unlawfully forced to pay thousands of dollars apiece in annual expenses by a company that purposefully misclassifies them as independent contactors instead of employees, a class-action lawsuit charges. The suit names Cardinal Logistics Management Corp. of Concord,...Read More
Napa Valley Register March 20, 2007 Wal-mart work still on hold, judge says Latest skirmish over AmCan Supercenter favors big box foes Tuesday, March 20, 2007 By KERANA TODOROV Register Staff Writer A Napa County Superior Court judge Monday denied Wal-Mart the right to continue construction on its nearly completed retail and grocery retail center...Read More
The Record By David Siders February 27, 2007 STOCKTON – A bid to dock the historic battleship USS Iowa at Rough and Ready Island is sunk – abandoned Monday by its former patron, the Port of Stockton. The port, which proposed in 2004 to turn the battleship into a tourist attraction, is no longer willing...Read More
Stockton Record February 27, 2007 By Jeff Hood Lodi Bureau Chief February 27, 2007 6:00 AM LODI – A new zoning designation to allow limited development for rural land between Lodi and Stockton has the backing of the area’s new county supervisor and, if adopted, could end a seven-year stalemate over the region’s future,...Read More
Napa Valley Register November 27, 2006 Thinking outside the Big Box Will-Wal-Mart’s troubles bring AmCan budget to a halt? Monday, November 27, 2006 By KERANA TODOROV Register Staff Writer The American Canyon City Council may have much to discuss in closed session Tuesday, as construction on the new Wal-Mart Supercenter at Napa Junction remains at...Read More
Napa Valley Register October 29, 2006 Appeals court hears AmCan Wal-Mart case Sunday, October 29, 2006 By KERANA TODOROV, Register Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO — More than a year after a court clash over a Wal-Mart Supercenter in American Canyon, lawyers for the city, the retailer and two citizens’ groups opposed to the big box...Read More
