BURBANK AIRPORT, CITY RETURN TO TALKS.Byline: Eric Wahlgren Daily News Staff Writer Burbank Airport and city administrators are resuming talks to settle lawsuits filed over proposed airport expansion, officials said Monday. The two sides, which have been locked in a bitter stalemate stale·mate n. 1. A situation in which further action is blocked; a deadlock. 2. A drawing position in chess in which the king, although not in check, can move only into check and no other piece can move. tr.v. for two years, returned to negotiations after a judge postponed a legal showdown originally set for Friday. After ordering city and airport representatives into court on Dec. 6, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Superior Court Judge Carl J. West asked them to give mediation another try before resorting to litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. . He rescheduled the court hearing to Jan. 30. West also issued a gag order A court order to gag or bind an unruly defendant or remove her or him from the courtroom in order to prevent further interruptions in a trial. In a trial with a great deal of notoriety, a court order directed to attorneys and witnesses not to discuss the case with the media—such on the talks, reportedly threatening stiff fines or even jail sentences jail sentence jail n → peine f de prison to anyone who reveals the contents of the discussions. The judge's actions come nearly six weeks after he ruled in favor of Burbank in a key case. He ruled that the airport must get approval from the city before it buys a parcel of land it needs to build a new terminal. The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority had tried to argue that federal safety and free commerce concerns freed the airport from having to answer to local land-use rules. In the case set for Friday, airport lawyers planned to argue that the city had agreed to yield its decision power over land use to the airport when it formed the nonprofit authority in 1977 with Glendale and Pasadena. ``We are saying that the city gave the airport authority the right to acquire land by any means necessary By any means necessary is a translation of a phrase coined by the French intellectual Jean Paul Sartre in his play Dirty Hands. I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. ,'' said Victor Gill, an airport spokesman. Attorneys for the city have dismissed the argument, saying the city never delegated its land-use authority to the airport and that the state would not have allowed such a move anyway. Efforts at mediation failed earlier this year when Burbank officials said the airport refused to offer any concessions. |
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