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Parties Involved:
1.41 Acres of Land
Defendant
East Bay Regional Park District
Defendant
The State of California
Defendant
United States of America
Plaintiff

Document Text:

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

 v.

1.41 ACRES OF LAND, more or less,

situated in the City of Alameda, Alameda

County, State of California, and THE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, acting by and

through its Department of Parks and

Recreation, and the EAST BAY

REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT,

Defendants. /

No. C 14-01781 WHA

NOTICE RE PROVISION

VACATING PRIOR ORDER 

The parties’ stipulated final judgment as to just compensation and order of distribution

included a provision that read, “The parties further stipulate and request that the Court vacate its

Order Denying Motion for Summary Judgment of the United States (ECF No. 113).” This

district judge has consistently refused to erase rulings from the public records as part of a

settlement. Once issued, an order and judgment of a United States District Court belong to the

public and are in the public domain. They are not subject to being erased by settlement (except

in cases where the public interest so justifies). To allow otherwise would allow all manner of

collusion and manipulation of the public records of our federal district court, especially by those

with enough money to buy collusion. Accordingly, that provision was not included in the order

on the parties’ stipulation.

Dated: October 21, 2015. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Case 3:14-cv-01781-WHA Document 163 Filed 10/21/15 Page 1 of 1