Why is LSI fighting so hard against this school when the risks, according to the environmental impact study, seem so small and the support so strong? Certainly there are better ways to spend what little public regard remains for corporate America than in opposing a popular and socially beneficial neighbor.
Create a panel of ‘real-world actors’, people who are/will be directly involved in the implementation of the laws — for instance, in the case of proposition 211 a panel of judges who sit on securities fraud cases — and let them describe what they would do in these hypothetical scenarios under existing and proposed law. Would they allow a case to go to trial? At what cost? Would they bring back a judgement for or against a particular party? Who would they hold liable and to what extent? How big a judgment would they award? Under what circumstances would they declare a case ‘frivolous’? What punishments would they impose, either for a finding of fraud or for a finding of frivolity?