Posted on 01/04/2010 9:16:58 PM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- The $21 million war between San Francisco's alternative newspapers heated up in court Monday when the Bay Guardian asked for a stake in all property belonging to the rival SF Weekly and its parent company, the 14-paper Village Voice Media.
Nearly two years after a San Francisco jury found that SF Weekly had engaged in illegal price-cutting for advertisements to try to ruin the Bay Guardian, the Guardian has gotten court orders that allowed it to seize and sell its rival's two delivery trucks and confiscate the rents the Weekly receives from tenants in its office space on Berry Street.
But that has hardly made a dent in the damage award, which started at $6.2 million with the jury verdict, grew to $16 million with a judge's penalties under antitrust law, and has picked up another $5 million in interest. The next step, the Guardian's lawyer says, might be another court order that would allow it simply to take money from the Weekly's parent company until the debt was paid off.
The Weekly and Village Voice Media are resisting payment because "they don't want the Bay Guardian to have any money," attorney Jay Adkisson said after Monday's hearing in San Francisco Superior Court, in which the Guardian asked a commissioner to impose a lien on the parent company and its local paper. Nevertheless, he said, "we're methodically proceeding towards collection."
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sounds like a job for the boys at “Your Regular Black Bakery”
Leftist law used by one leftist against another.How fitting.
Here’s hoping the Metro gets gobbled up down the road, another leftist rag .
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