Earlier this year, tech blogger Robert Scroble posted a picture of a city notice declaring the building to be unsafe; however, the pier's tenants insisted everything was going to be fine.
A printed notice declaring their legal rights as squatters and taped to the front door, and the appearance of a man in a yellow tabard with the words "legal observer" handwritten on the back, suggested this was not the first such protest for those involved.
Some government entity, with little notice, declares specific windows of time for herring fishing, and when the moment comes, a free-for-all ensues in which vessels of various sorts jostle for the best spots at high speeds.
"Jiangsu Province plans to effectively control the eutrophication of Lake Tai in five years, and greatly improve the water quality of the lake," the notice declared.
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In a Stockton suburb called Creekside, almost every other house was plastered with stark notices declaring "bank-owned – no trespassing".
Even though that law doesnt apply retroactively to Nicholas 2001 shelters, the IRS sent his familys partnerships notices declaring them illegitimate economic shams.
Lawyers for the two men appeared in the federal court in Sydney on Friday seeking to have the notices declared invalid and cancelled.
The Reading Room's high-ceilinged space is filled with nautical bric-a-brac: photographs of bearded men smoking pipes, with nicknames like Slooper, Brushy and Jimbo; a notice from 1732 declaring the amount sea widows could receive in pension; figureheads of fair maidens; ship logbooks and models; drawings and poems.
CHICAGO, April 17 — George Ryan, the former governor of Illinois who drew international notice by declaring a moratorium on the death penalty in his state, was convicted on Monday in a sweeping federal corruption case.
