Legal
Situation:
We received a proposed agreement for legal services on April
23, 2010. We asked for some minor modifications to the agreement and asked for
clarification on some parts of the agreement on April 26. We received an updated
agreement and a clarification letter on May 5. We reviewed the clarifications
and found them satisfactory. On May 10, we signed the agreement and hand
delivered it and a retainer check for $50,000 to Tom SinclairÕs office. That initiates the next legal phase of
our challenge to the legality of UCÕs dropping our retiree medical coverage.
The agreement is considered to be lawyer/client confidential, so we canÕt
distribute it. We are getting the same discount from the law firms as we got in
the first legal phase.
Our lawyers have to put together an appropriate complaint
and submit it to the court. In theory, UC has to respond in 30 days, but
customary practice would be for UC to ask for an additional 30 days to analyze
the complaint and for our lawyers to agree to the delay. That means that it
will probably be at least 3 months before we get any feedback on what is
happening. In the mean time we will se if we can declassify some of the
information about how things will proceed and distribute it.
Donation
Receipts:
We have sent receipts for all donations made prior to about
4/5/10. We will be sending out the next batch of receipts in a few days. We are
sending them by email whenever possible. We only send paper receipts to donors
we have no email address for. If you sent a donation before 4/5/10 and have not
received a receipt, please let us know.