<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-size: 13px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hello Karina and community rights folks,<div><br><div>First, I should say that I am not a lawyer, only a law school student. This email is not legal advice.</div><div><br></div><div>The legal concept of "standing" is a way that a court determines whether a party will be permitted to</div><div>bring a lawsuit, or otherwise make a claim to some other legal right. Imminent direct harm must be shown, </div><div>or some other direct participation in a transaction must be shown, in order to have standing. So with </div><div>respect to Mora County, the oil company must show that Mora County's new law harms them directly</div><div>in order to bring a lawsuit. Since we don't know whether oil companies or fracking drilling companies</div><div>currently own land in Mendocino County, I don't know if this is necessarily good or bad for Measure S. </div><div><br></div><div>/s/ Charles</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-left: #0000ff 2px solid; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: karinajoy <karinacotler@gmail.com>
<br>Sent: Nov 30, 2014 1:20 PM
<br>To: Charles Wood <ccwood@ix.netcom.com>
<br>Cc: Community Rights Network <crn@lists.mcn.org>
<br>Subject: 11/29 update on Mora County lawsuit
<br><br><zzzhtml><zzzhead></zzzhead><zzzbody style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Palatino Linotype', serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><a target="_blank" href="http://writtenwordspokenword.blogspot.com/2014/11/14392-reasons-for-mora-county-to-stand.html">http://writtenwordspokenword.blogspot.com/2014/11/14392-reasons-for-mora-county-to-stand.html</a></span></font></div><div style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; "><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="color: black; "><br></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; "><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="color: black; ">On </span><span style="color: black; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Monday, November 23</span></span><span style="color: black; "><sup style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">rd</span></sup></span><span style="color: black; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">, Swepi, the subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell currently suing Mora County to overturn its historic anti-fracking ordinance, filed with the Court a document entitled "Supplemental Evidence Regarding Justiciability." The filing had 10 exhibits attached, which list Swepi's oil and gas leases in Mora County, information that had not been previously provided, and it changes the picture significantly. It appears that Swepi has substantial leases in Mora!</span></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 17px; "><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 15px; ">According to Mora County's pro bono attorney, Jeffrey Haas, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 20px; ">“The document was filed because Judge Browning was skeptical about whether Swepi had shown a sufficient interest in Mora County to prove standing to object to the constitutionality of the ordinance.” </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 20px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 20px; ">Karina's comment:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 20px; ">I'm not a lawyer, but to me this is good news for us, if the oil/gas companies do not already have leases in the county. Then they would not have "sufficient interest" in Mendocino county to have standing to object to our ordinance. Is this a correct interpretation, Charles?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 20px; ">K</span></div></zzzbody></zzzhtml></crn@lists.mcn.org></ccwood@ix.netcom.com></karinacotler@gmail.com></blockquote><br><div id="elnk_signature_1417383938203" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black;"><pre>Charles Cresson Wood, MBA, MSE, CISA, CISSP, CISM
Information Security & Privacy Consultant
Author of "Information Security Policies Made Easy"
InfoSecurity Infrastructure, Inc.
www.infosecurityinfrastructure.com
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