SUMMONS – (CITACION JUDICIAL)
CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DEL CASO): CIV SB 2128492
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT:
(AVISO DEMANDADO):
KULWANT KAUR aka KULWANT KAURA aka KULWANT KURA, SETHI CHANCHAL, and DOES 1 to 10, inclusive
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF:
(LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): MTC FINANCIAL INC. dba TRUSTEE CORPS
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.
There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.
¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entregue esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no le protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar on formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted puede usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formulario de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida si secretario de la corta que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.
Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov), o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y la direccion de la corte es):
San Bernardino Justice Center
247 West Third Street
San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210
The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demendante que no tiene abogado, es):
John C. Steele, Steele LLP,
17272 Red Hill Avenue,
Irvine, CA 92614
Phone: (949) 222-1161
DATE (Fecha): November 10, 2021
Clerk (Secretario), by Sylvia Guajardo, Deputy (Adjunto)
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on: 10/14/2022, 10/28/2022, 11/04/2022 & 11/11/2022.

Continue reading →

Robert Tafoya, who had served as the general counsel for the West Valley Water District since December 2017, has resigned from that capacity, effective immediately.

The San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters Office has fallen far behind the pace it maintained in counting votes throughout the county during the last dozen or more elections.
After posting the initial mail-in ballots at 8:30 p.m. on election night, the office was delinquent with regard to its 10 p.m., midnight, 2 a.m., 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. updates.
Indeed, as of 6 a.m. the tally of votes in this year’s election was well behind what has been normally available by 10 p.m. during typical elections.
Interim Registrar of Voters Stephanie Shea offered no explanation as to why the count was being delayed.

Three polling places in the Big Bear area and the single precinct in Angelus Oaks have been closed due to weather-related power outages.
Those voters in Big Bear with polling places at The Journey Church, Big Bear Valley Seventh Day Adventist Church and Bear Valley Church may vote in person at the Big Bear Lake Civic Center, 39707 Big Bear Blvd., Big Bear Lake.
Those in Angelus Oaks who normally vote at Fire Station #98 in Angelus Oaks, which has been closed due to mandatory evacuations in the area, can vote in person at the evacuation site located at Inland Leaders Charter School, 12375 California St, Yucaipa or any other San Bernardino County polling place or return their voted mail ballot at a mail ballot drop-off location or via the U.S. Postal Service if it is postmarked today, Nov. 8.

With Mayor John Valdivia’s final days in office moving toward a countdown, the prospect of property in Verdemont that was burdened with several thousand tons of shattered concrete more than two years ago being reclaimed for development any time soon is fading.
Earlier this year, a New York-based development company had swooped in with a plan to obtain the Verdemont property, located in what is the northernmost district within the San Bernardino City Limits along the 215 Freeway south of Devore, at a low enough price to allow it to remove the concrete to a nearby location to crush it and then return it to the site where it would be used as fill to even out the sloping of the property to render it developable.
According to the principal in the company that had those hopes, however, the same entities who had been involved in locating the concrete onto the property in the first place violated an agreement that would have allowed the prospective developer to make a reasonable profit on the venture by alerting other investors who then interloped, making the combined task of securing the property and dealing with the concrete prohibitively expensive.
A chain of events created the current circumstance. Continue reading →

Two years after San Bernardino County’s voters by a two thirds margin passed Measure K, a political reform initiative that reduced the pay of the total annual compensation of the individual members of the county board of supervisors from $260,000 per year to $60,000 per year and limited holders of that position to a single term in office, the supervisors this year are seeking to displace that refinement with a measure to restore their pay level and allow them to remain in office for at least three terms.
Turning out to support the supervisors in that effort have been a collection of developers, business interests and public employee unions, which are sponsoring the alternative initiative on this year’s ballot, Measure D, who have so far put up more than $829,000.
The use of Measure D by San Bernardino County’s political establishment to block the reforms layered into Measure K is the latest effort by the supervisors to prevent the Red Brennan Group from proceeding with structural changes to county government its members believe will safeguard taxpayer funds and reduce what its members consider to be the pernicious influence of special interests on county policy.
Kieran “Red” Brennan was a U.S. Navy submariner during World War II. His brushes with death as a young man in the service of his country while seeking to export democracy around the globe impressed on him the need to refine democracy at home. He pushed efforts to ensure government transparency and accountability, ones he hoped elected officials could be convinced to impose on themselves and, if not, would ultimately be put in place through the citizen initiative process. Continue reading →

This year’s Chino Hills City Council District 1 race points up the moral quandary and practical conflict inherent in the California Voter Rights Act, as it is pitting the community’s longtime leading Hispanic politician against a man touted as Chino Hills’ great Asian political hope.
The California Voting Rights Act of 2001, which was framed with the intent of preventing the political disenfranchisement of minorities in the Golden State, encourages the use of by-district rather than at-large voting in local races for elected office.
The California Legislature in passing the act worked from the assumption that historically the state’s minority population had been underrepresented in elected offices at virtually all levels within California and that minority votes were being diluted in “at-large elections,” that is, in elections whereby representatives elected to represent the whole membership of a governmental body can live anywhere within that jurisdiction’s borders. The theory was that by creating voting wards within such jurisdictions – cities, incorporated towns, school districts, water districts, fire districts, community services districts, etc. – the minority vote would not be diluted in those areas or districts or wards where the minority voters were concentrated, and this would lead to the election of minority candidates to office.
As part of the strategy to overcome this “at-large election minority voter dilution,” the California Voting Rights Act made it easy to force local governments to dispense with at-large elections in favor of by-district voting. Continue reading →