After reading this, one might be lead to believe that justice is inherently dilatory. We have the hearing on perchlorate contamination in Rialto which was supposed to be heard on August 21 but was stayed by a Los Angeles County judge. We're talking about pollution which occurred in the 1950s and the State Water Resources Control Board decides 50 years later to conduct a hearing to establish who is to blame for the contamination. Apparently the state asked the LA judge to hear a change of venue motion to allow a San Bernardino judge to consider the issue of whether the Board has authority to hold this hearing. I discussed this issue previously (See below). The hearing on the change of venue is set for October 17! When the judge hears the matter, then the original hearing will have to be rescheduled. If the judge grants the matter, the San Bernardino judge will have to schedule the matter for another month out. In the meantime, the witnesses are getting really old.
Alas, justice is delayed, and perhaps will not prevail in this instance.
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