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Jet Propulsion Lab case to go before U.S. Supreme Court

Posted on October 04, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments tomorrow in a case involving 28 government contractors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who object to what they say are unrestricted and overly intrusive background checks. The plaintiffs, who are engineers...

Taylor rejoins Wilson Sonsini in Palo Alto

Posted on October 04, 2010
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has announced that Barry Taylor has rejoined the firm as a partner in the corporate and securities practice. He will be based in their Palo Alto office. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he had been...

Ninth Circuit sanctions Sanai

Posted on October 04, 2010
Attorney Cyrus Sanai was sanctioned last Thursday by the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council for filing frivolous complaints against 19 judges. Sanai is most widely known as the lawyer who discovered exually explicit material on Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski?s...

'Crash' impacts another lawsuit, this time from Matt Dillon

Posted on October 01, 2010
Yesterday actor Matt Dillon filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming he is still owed at least $100,000 in profits for his work in the movie Crash, according to an audit performed by his own company, Matthias Prods....

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Alleged terrorist sympathizer may have all charges dropped

Posted on October 01, 2010
Federal prosecutors in Santa Ana have asked U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney to dismiss perjury and naturalization-fraud charges against Ahmadulla Sais Niazi, a Tustin man alleged to be a terrorist sympathizer. Prosecutors alleged in 2009, when Niazi was taken...

Students will hear arguments in major immigration case, among others, in Fresno

Posted on October 01, 2010
The California Supreme Court is coming to Fresno and it's inviting 300 students across the Valley to hear arguments in eight cases over two days. Students will have the chance to hear arguments in Martinez v. UC Regents, a class-action...

CA Bar Foundation awards 51 Diversity Scholarships

Posted on September 30, 2010
The California Bar Foundation will award $282,500 in scholarships to 51 law students at a reception today at the offices of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles. A spokesperson for the foundation said yesterday that a total of...

Riverside County Bar Association honors BB&K's Clarke

Posted on September 30, 2010
Jack B. Clarke Jr., an attorney with Best Best & Krieger, will receive the Riverside County Bar Association's James Krieger Meritorious Service Award today at the association's annual installation dinner. Clarke joined BB&K right out of law school in 1985...

Former WSGR of counsel now General Counsel of CODA Automotive

Posted on September 30, 2010
CODA Automotive, a company that manufactures all-electric vehicles and transportation-related battery systems, has announced the hiring of Christopher Rose as its General Counsel. Prior to joining CODA, Mr. Rose was Of Counsel with the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich...

Bren impersonator's trial date set

Posted on September 29, 2010
Moundir Kamil was arrested on September 13 for stealing a $1.4-million federal-tax-return check made out to billionaire Donald Bren, and then fooling a bank into believing he was the land developer. Kamil apparently used Bren's Social Security number, date of...

Sacks Glazier partner is new Chair of CA State Bar Trusts & Estates Section

Posted on September 29, 2010
Margaret Lodise, a partner with the trusts and estates litigation firm Sacks Glazier Franklin & Lodise LLP, was recently installed as Chair of the California State Bar Trusts & Estates Section Executive Committee at the State Bar?s 83rd Annual Meeting...

Attorney charged with 'harassment by electronic communication'

Posted on September 29, 2010
Irvine attorney Franklin Casco Jr. has been charged with impersonating his neighbors and placing fake ads on Web sites like MySpace for sexual services in their names. Prosecutors charged Casco and an accomplice from his firm, Larry Lorenzo Cardenas Jr...

Judge adds $2.3M to San Juan Capistrano's woes

Posted on September 28, 2010
Orange County Superior Court Judge Gail Andler has awarded $2.3 million in litigation expenses in a development suit against San Juan Capistrano. The city had initially wanted a $7 million judgment tossed out and a new trial granted, but Andler...

Nahai joins Lewis Brisbois in L.A.

Posted on September 28, 2010
Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has announced that H. David Nahai will be joining the firm as a partner in their Los Angeles office. He will co-chair the firm?s energy, environmental and water practice and real estate practice. A well-recognized...

Warner Bros. vs. Toberoff, with a lot of paperwork

Posted on September 28, 2010
Warner Brothers has been battling Marc Toberoff, the attorney for the families of "Superman" creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, for years now. The studio turned the heat up this past May with a suit alleging that Toberoff manipulated his...

Judge's 'tough love' approach lands her in hot water with Judicial Performance Commission

Posted on September 27, 2010
The State Commission on Judicial Performance said last Thursday that it will be investigating potential misconduct by San Diego County Superior Court Judge DeAnn M. Salcido. She is facing scrutiny for three dozen allegedly mocking, rude and slightly off-color comments...

Appeals court affirms $94M judgment against former Qualcomm director

Posted on September 27, 2010
The California Second Appellate District Court affirmed a judgment last Wednesday against former Qualcomm director and shareholder Neil Kadisha for mismanaging two trusts for a young widow's two children. The Court also added about $20 million in prejudgment interest to...

Ritchey joins Hopkins & Carley in San Jose

Posted on September 27, 2010
Hopkins & Carley has announced the addition of Gary H. Ritchey to its San Jose office as a Shareholder in the Litigation department. Ritchey's particular emphasis is patent litigation, although he has represented clients on a variety of intellectual property...

Lawyer sues former firm over male empowerment retreat

Posted on September 24, 2010
Attorney Steven C. Eggleston is suing Newport beach firm Bisnar/Chase, claiming that they stopped paying him after he refused to attend a personal development retreat. Eggleston alleges in the suit, filed in August, that he did a Google search on...

Rogers joins Seyfarth Shaw as of counsel in L.A.

Posted on September 24, 2010
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced the addition of trusts & estates lawyer John T. Rogers, Jr. to its Los Angeles office as of counsel. Rogers specializes in trust, estate, and conservatorship administration and litigation. He also helps clients with estate planning,...

Two O.C. attorneys disbarred in loan mod investigation

Posted on September 24, 2010
Two attorneys fell prey to the State Bar of California's investigation of loan modification scams this week. Brian Colombana, who practiced in Irvine and Ontario, admitted that he represented nine struggling homeowners in states in which he was not authorized...

New associate at Levene Neale in Century City

Posted on September 23, 2010
Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill L.L.P. has announced the appointment of Gwendolen D. Long as an associate in its Century City office. Long joined Levene Neale from the New York office of Brown Rudnick LLP, where she represented individual...

Real estate mogul indicted for fraud

Posted on September 23, 2010
Ezri Namvar, the real estate mogul who used to own the Marriott hotel in downtown Los Angeles among other high profile properties before allegations he was operating a Ponzi scheme collapsed his fortune, has been indicted on five counts of...

CA veterans want to be heard in Mojave cross case

Posted on September 22, 2010
The Liberty Institute, a Texas-based nonprofit, filed a motion in Los Angeles federal court yesterday seeking to include the VFW in the long-running dispute over the steel cross erected in the Mojave National Preserve as a memorial to war veterans....

Holden joins Lewis Brisbois in L.A.

Posted on September 22, 2010
Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has announced the addition of Craig Holden as a partner in the Intellectual Property, Entertainment, and Commercial Litigation practice groups. He will be based in the Los Angeles office. Holden has first-chair jury trial experience...

Litigation from 2003-04 labor dispute finally settles

Posted on September 22, 2010
A contract dispute between management and workers at Vons, Albertsons and Ralphs supermarkets caused picket lines to be seen at supermarkets all across southern California in 2003 and 2004. A lawsuit that arose during that time has finally been settled...

EEOC files racial discrimination suit against Chapman University

Posted on September 21, 2010
The federal EEOC has filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division, on behalf of a former professor who alleges she was denied tenure and fired because she is black. Dr. Stephanie...

9th Circuit rejects student's sexual harassment policy challenge

Posted on September 21, 2010
Jonathan Lopez, a student at Los Angeles City College and self-described devout Christian, was giving a speech in class about marriage being solely defined as a union between a man and a woman and using two Bible verses as support...

Lone holdout in Wilson Sonsini office supply scam finally pleads guilty

Posted on September 21, 2010
Carlos Ivan Vargas, the former president of Attorney's Printing Supply and one of three men charged with defrauding Palo Alto law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati of close to $1 million, pleaded guilty last week. He was the last...

Arguments filed by Prop 8 supporters in appeals bid

Posted on September 21, 2010
Proposition 8 sponsor ProtectMarriage.com filed written arguments in the 9th Circuit last week, urging the appeals court to overturn Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling against the 2008 ballot measure banning same-sex marriage. The group cited a 1972 Supreme Court...

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