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Real Estate

Jul. 29, 2003

Costco SpokesmanFailed to Review Trial Record

Before accusing me of "fabrication," "fiction," "fantasies," "nonsense," making "unsupportable claims" and "misrepresent[ation]" of the facts in a case in which he did not participate, it might have behooved Joel Benoliel to at least review the record of the trial proceedings in 99 Only Stores Inc. v. City of Lancaster.

Before accusing me of "fabrication," "fiction," "fantasies," "nonsense," making "unsupportable claims" and "misrepresent[ation]" of the facts in a case in which he did not participate, it might have behooved Joel Benoliel to at least review the record of the trial proceedings in 99¢ Only Stores Inc. v. City of Lancaster.

First, it was not I who referred to Costco as Lancaster's "800-pound gorilla." It was Lancaster cityhall staffers, who used the term to explain why t...

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