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Let's get to Roger Bailey now.

He's the attorney for the Palisades, for the Palisades residents whose homes were destroyed in the fire.

They were doing depositions of state employees and firefighters, and then Karen Bass's attorneys wanted all those

depositions sealed for at least 30 days.

And now the city of Los Angeles has sued the state of California over the Palisades

fire.

That's right.

I suspect it's when they lose these lawsuits,

they want to spread out the damages. But let's talk to the expert, Roger Bailey. He's on the front

lines. Roger, how are you? I'm doing great, John. Getting pretty interesting, isn't it?

Oh, this is, yeah, this is fascinating. I mean, I guess they're going to start to devour each other

because they know what's coming. Tell mean, I guess they're going to start to devour each other because they know

what's coming. Tell me, is this the way, I mean, the way I read it, this is written in very

dense legalese, so I'm going to defer to your interpretive skills. But this is about trying to

spread the blame and spread the damages when that day comes. Yeah, that's right. So the thing that struck us as being

unusual is you may be aware that we have a hearing in front of the court on Tuesday. It was supposed to be

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