News Scrapbook 1986

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Clalrmont-Llnda Vista

Star News (Cir. 2xW.)

APR 3 1986

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sale m nager at Pacific Beach Ford, an Diego County's n we t ·ord dealership. Hilton, who has been among the top-10 Ford salesmen in outhern alifornia. ha received the highe t ·ale· honors from ord Motor Company, the ,rand Master Award, for an Diego area sale leader hip for the pa t four year . Hilton will handle fleet ales nd leasing with: uti litie , munic1paliti , credit unions, car r ntal compani s, corporations and busines es. Prior to entering Ford sales, Hilton rved in the an Diego Police Department for seven y ar . ,\ graduate of La Jolla H1 h ,hool, Hilton attended the Univcr ity of San Diego Law School. -... Hilton and his wife, Linda,

Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Co) Times (San Diego Ed.I (Cir. D 50,010) (Cir. S 55,573)

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egal Eagles Flock to Unlock La s U.S., M..exico Lawyers Focus on Cross-Border Problems ;J.f!_j.5 By., M SCHACHTER, Times Staff Writer

JIM HILTON

and their three children currently re Ide in \'1 ta. Pacific Beach Ford, ituated on more than five acres, i now 100 percent locally owned.

On lhe face of 1t. the call that attorney Jorge Santistevan took Friday mqrning did not require any i;pec al legal expcrus . The caller simply needed lo know how to serve paper on a defendant In a civil lawsuit-a procedure under- taken by San Diego lawyers on i•mumerable occasmns every day. But the twist that made the mqu1ry unusual was that the caller represented a San Diego company and the defendant was m Guadala- .iara Mexico. Santistevan the attor- ney had to draw upon the re•ourccs of Santistevan the abogado. A prac- t1cmg lawyer in both the Umted States and Mexico, Santistevan had the answer that most of his col- leagues m the San Diego bar would have had to grope to fmd Like mo t of her colleagues in the Tijuana bar, meanwhile, Car- men Yolanda Navarro cannot claim more than a passing acquaintance with Amcncan jurisprudence. But she is barraged with questions from Mexican chenls about their en- counters with the law m San Diego and she wants to be able to meet their needs. "We live one minute or 10 min- utes across the border," she said. "We come here two or three limes a week. We could gel in a problem eas).' The ever-expanding commerce m people and merchandise crossing the international border brought

avarro a"'ld Santistevan and about 40 other law)'ers from Tijuana and San Diego together F'riday at the Umversnv of San Q1ego School of Law. In a rare cxpres,ion of mutual need, the San Diego County Bar Assn. and the Maria Sandoval de Zarco Bar-the women's bar asso- c1at1on of T1Juana-held a joint meeting U!1der the auspices of the law school s Mexico- Umted Stales Law Institute. "Every lawyer in San Diego in their practice is gomg to have a Mexican law or MeXJean economy case come up to them," said Peter RJ. Thompson, chairman of the San Diego bar's Mexico liaison committee • If I nc<.>d to have s:imeone make a court appearance or provide legal repre; entatmn in the Republic of Mexiro, I need to l:now lawyers there,' he said. "Th 0 re's so much cro•s- border business and capital flight out of Mexico that there's many situations where Mexican at orneys need to call on someone jm the U.S.] for advice." The meetmg Friday focused on raffle law, a welbpring of confus- ng-and often frightening-legal problems for international travel- ers and an instructive example of the vivid contr t.s between the American and Mc>J an legal sys- tems. As unfortunate American tour-

1sts quickly discover, a traffic acci- dent is a cnmmal offense m Mexico, subject lo intense pohce mve liga- tion and harsh fines and punish- menL V1s1tors from Tijuana to San Diego, meanwhile, may learn that drunk driving is dealt with more severely m the Umted States than in Mexico. Both nations have com plex systems of stale and federal courts, of civil and cnmin l proce- dures and of felony and misde- meanor prosccul1ons-but they are different complex systems. And as the border resident so often finds, the most ba ·ic distinc- tion between the two countries is that they conduct their business in different languages. Lingual differ- ences were much m evidence dur- ing Friday's meeting, as speakers repeatedly promised to translate their remarks but more often than not stuck to Spanish only, whether 1t was their first language or not. Leaders of both bar associations pledged that the get-together was only a beginning, a renewal of international ties that had faded during several years of neglect. "We hope next time it will be in Baja," said Navarro, president of the Tijuana group. "Caho San Lucas? ' asked Thompson, drawing a bilingual laugh from the lawyers. "Maybe Rosarito," Navarro re-

San Diego, CA (San Diego C~-) San Diego union (Cir. D. 217 ,089) (Cir. S. 341 ,840)

JUl~ri's P C B 888 V New Start ust fin!f new home High-rise project forces treatment program to move New Start in Life, a residential drug and alcohol treatment program, has until June 1 to find new quarters, since its present home will be torn down to clear the way for a high-rise building. The buildings were purchased last fall by Bmnacle Development Inc. from the University of San D·ego, which had received the two-building site on Centre Street as a bequest. New Start originally rented the place in 1983 from Larry McGee, who later donated it to the umversity According to attorney Bob Goff, a friend of program director Rev. Johnny Carter, Binnacle wrote off about $24,000 rn overdue rent that had built up over 10 months. They also gave the program mor time to find a new home. The rehabilitation program, which is based on Christian principles, has been faced with uncertainty since December, when it was first asked by Binnacle officials to leave the buildings. New Start has served about 45 cli- ents at a time for two years at the site. In recent months, the number of residents was do~n to 12. Carter said, "We didn't feel we could accept new people when I didn't know how long we would be here or what we would do if we had to leave." He is looking for 25,000 square feet of space for an office and residence to house 40 people. Program director Steve Caldwell said they hope to find something in the county for less than $250,000. The program is supported entirely by donations. Caldwell estimated the operating cost at $2,500 a month per person. Carter said that though he gets re- ferrals from the courts and from local churches, most of his support comes from outside the area. "The court sends us people be- cause they know our program works. Churches refer people too, but few donate any money," Carter said. ''We have about 10 San Diego lay- men who send m a donation every month, but most of our money comes from Orange County or from across the nation," said Carter• . . l ,

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