Supreme Court Sides with Union - The Times, They are a Changin'

From the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the right of a local public employees' union to force government workers who are not union members to pay a share of legal fees.

So the court decided in this case that everyone who was going to benefit from collective bargaining must pitch in to help with the legal fees. This sounds pretty logical, but it's kinda hard to believe that this had to go all the way to the Supreme Court.

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Moorpark Councilman to Head Board of Metrolink - Amid Class Action Lawsuit Possibilities

Keith Millhouse of Moorepark has been elected to head the board of Metrolink. This early January election came only a few months after the catastrophic train wreck in Chatsworth where some 25 people died and many more were injured.

Millhouse will head an organization that manages some 500 miles of railroad and serves some 50,000 people in the Los Angeles area alone.

Millhouse's election comes after the last Head stepped down following scrutiny of Metrolink and possible class action lawsuits from survivors and families of the victims.

What's going on now is very similar to what happened in the 2003 train disaster in Placentia. At the time, Los Angeles Catastrophic Injury Lawyer Jerome L. Ringler, who was appointed by the Court as lead counsel for all of the Plaintiffs, won a verdict of $9 million for the victims and their families.

Let's hope that this time the survivors and the victims' families get a settlement that is just for all of them.