Government,
Constitutional Law
May 7, 2013
Prop C a step in the right direction
Perhaps a "primal scream" is just what we need to encourage a movement towards a genuine fix of our political institutions. By Timothy D. Reuben
Timothy D. Reuben
Reuben MediationTim Reuben spent more than 40 years handling complex legal disputes in California's state and federal courts. As the founder and managing partner of Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles, he has worked on a wide range of matters through jury and bench trials, arbitration, mediation, judicial reference, and settlement conferences across multiple areas of civil law, including commercial, real estate, construction, employment, intellectual property, insurance, professional liability, and unfair competition.
Proposition C on the ballot for the May 21 Los Angeles municipal election seeks to adopt a resolution in support of limits on political campaign spending, stating that "corporations should not have the constitutional rights of human beings." It is a voter referendum that seeks to "instruct Los Angeles elected officials and area legislative representatives to promote that policy through amendments to the United States Constitution." On April 29, the Los Angeles Times published an editoria...
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