They want. Sure. Im head of federal public policy. You you have not heard of it before, website that thats people to businesses in places. Currently currently about a hundred and 42 million unique monthly visitors and 32 countries start 11 years ago. And as a part of that process connecting people it has also become a site for aggregating and assigning ratings. So for example we are here in washington dc right now. I think that the rayburn cafeteria has about a two star rating on yelp. Yeah. So whether it is restaurants or dry cleaners or plumbers or businesses in general or places in general they have a yelp page generally speaking and ratings that are there. And and it does not just apply for yelp. You have sites like trip advisor for travel and hotels and things around the world. You have a sock stock a site that has come up for doctors and finding out the best doctors the mighty around you. Google does it as well. Even facebook as well. If you go on to a business page you will see
Between 2005 in 2010 the Judicial Council notes parties recorded 2881 antislap motions in trial court throughout california 81 anti slap motions in trial court throughout california were roughly 481 motions per year. An appeal an appeal was filed in only 375 cases. Put another put another way nearly 90 percent of the cases no appeals while. And that is sort of given that there were about 6. 2 million civil filings and superior courts during that time the 2881 the 2,881 constitutes about i dont know,. 046 percent of all lawsuits. And thats just california. I think thats a good question. I that is for california. We dont know. This bill is a federal bill. We dont know anything about how many of these lawsuits are being filed in other states and federal court. Is. Is a good question to ask for before we pass legislation thats going to circumvent the rules enabling that and also expand the jurisdiction of federal court. How big of a problem is this goahead quakes one thing to keep in mind
Happens nearly every year that large numbers of california red leg ed frogs are stranded at sharp park under existing rates of water removal at sharp park. If we in accrues increase that rate of change, it will become worse. Its the rate of change that is motor most important to the species. It will adapt to small changes in the water level that occur under normal conditions. When the pumps are turned on and started to remove more than 10,000 gallons, its not able to adjust to. The department has said there is no changes to the pump house protocols on the one hand while on the other hand they say these pumps are the basis for the environmental conditions of the project. Those Baseline Environmental conditions have never been considered by any Environmental Review document ever by the recs and Park Department or planning department. There is no document we can reference to understand what the environmental consequences are of those existing pump house rates and this project it says on i
Declaration and ignoring the comments as to why this project is misguided. Just to give you a little bit of information as to why this piece of property is so important, i want to give you a few minutes about what this place is like for those of you who havent been there and describe the sources that are found there. The frogs species sometimes known as twains frog because mark twain wrote a story about it and there is San Francisco garter snake. Under the circumstances a species that truly breaks my heart. Its the most beautiful serpent in all of america. It is our namesake and probably the next species on the San Francisco peninsula to go extinct unless we do something about it. The recovery Wild Life Association explained how to protect that from occurring. That plan demands that the population of that not only have that arrested but increase to transplant some of these animals to locations where they have been lost. That has not happened. The population of these species have declin
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