On Monday, November 20, developer Phil Tagami's lawyers filed a motion for summary judgment in the United States District Court case Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal, LLC vs. City of Oakland. Summary judgment is a procedure by which some or all of a case is decided in favor of one side or the other prior to trial on grounds that there are no contested facts that would affect the outcome.  Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal, LLC (OBOT) is the corporate shell through which Tagami and his partners hold a 66-year-lease on a corner of the former Oakland Army Base near the Bay Bridge toll plaza. OBOT sued the City of Oakland last December ...

80 people encircled the Rotunda Building, half of them young people, mostly of elementary school age, with placards proclaiming “Boycott the Rotunda,” “Youth vs. Coal,” and “DeCOALonize Oakland.”