Dan Walters: Lawsuit dilemma redux: Once again, a real-world problem ignored By Dan Walters -- Bee Columnist Published 2:15 am PDT Monday, May 9, 2005 A melodrama that played itself out over two years in the Capitol, and eventually in the November election, reflected the polarized and unresponsive nature of California's political apparatus. A real-world problem was presented to the Legislature. Some unscrupulous attorneys were conducting ill-disguised shakedowns of small businesses - auto repair shops, cafes, nail parlors and the like - by misusing the state's "unfair business practices" law. Business owners, many of them immigrants, were receiving harshly worded...