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First Amendment battle brews in Victorville

Posted on March 31, 2009
In a move that legal experts said is patently against the law, a local judge in Victorville ordered a Daily Press reporter on Monday not to print the name of a witness who testified in open court. The Daily Press...

Attorney-client privilege still an issue in Broadcom case

Posted on March 31, 2009
Federal prosecutors in the criminal stock options backdating case involving Broadcom Corp. have appealed a recent decision finding that certain statements made by William Ruehle, the former chief financial officer of the Irvine, Calif.-based technology company, are protected under the...

Amex beats travel insurance overcharge rap without having to travel to the courtroom

Posted on March 31, 2009
In a rare case of a national class action going to trial, American Express Co. has defeated a consumer class action in California alleging that it overcharged customers as much as $310 million for travel insurance. The win was all...

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell announce layoffs

Posted on March 31, 2009
The chairwoman of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, Jerry Clements, announced today the firm laid off associates, counsel and staff for economic reasons. She declined to give a headcount but said the layoffs affected all 13 offices. No partners were...

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Karatz opts for a not guilty plea

Posted on March 30, 2009
Former KB Home Chief Executive Bruce Karatz entered a not guilty plea before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Jeffrey W. Johnson in Los Angeles. Earlier this month Karatz was indicted on charges of manipulating stock options and concealing his actions...

Financial and securities fraud cases on the rise, so are associate hires

Posted on March 30, 2009
In the midst of so many layoffs, plaintiff firms with securities class action practices are hiring associates. Thanks to an influx of large financial and securities fraud cases, 60-lawyer Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann has added eight associates firmwide since...

Obama noms for Treasury include USC VP

Posted on March 30, 2009
Over the weekend President Obama announced his intent to fill three top Treasury Department positions, filling in more of the top ranks under Secretary Timothy F. Geithner at an agency that has been slow to fill vacancies. Among those nominees...

Governor announces Superior Court bench appointments

Posted on March 27, 2009
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced several appointments to the Superior Court benches. The governor appointed Thadd A. Blizzard, Ben G. Davidian, Geoffrey A. Goodman and Louis R. Mauro to judgeships with the Sacramento County Superior Court. In El Dorado County,...

Changes in medical marijuana policy get complicated in court

Posted on March 27, 2009
In Los Angeles on Monday, a judge postponed the sentencing of a former marijuana dispensary owner and ordered the Department of Justice to put its new position in writing by the end of April, though he said he didn't think...

Even in economic downturn, opportunity knocks in Los Angeles

Posted on March 27, 2009
At least eight law firms have opened offices in the Los Angeles area since the start of the current economic downturn about eight months ago ? more than any other major metropolitan region in the nation. To do so, many...

CA prosecutors revive 1985 disappearance case involving "Clark Rockefeller"

Posted on March 26, 2009
After decades of inaction on the case, California prosecutors plan to present evidence to a grand jury about the mysterious 1985 disappearance of a couple who rented their guesthouse to the man who now calls himself Clark Rockefeller, the clearest...

San Joaquin River project approved by Congress

Posted on March 26, 2009
California's second longest river stands to get water again as part of a massive public lands bill. The $400 million project, approved by Congress, will increase the amount of water released from the Friant Dam near Fresno into the San...

O'Donnell: Contribution prohibition does not include reimbursement

Posted on March 26, 2009
Pierce O'Donnell, the lead attorney representing Hurricane Katrina victims in litigation against the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, has filed a motion to dismiss a federal indictment against him, arguing that the statute under which he is charged does not...

Nossaman responds to stimulus plan by adding to infrastructure group

Posted on March 26, 2009
Nossaman, in preparation for an influx of government-funded construction projects due in part to the recent economic stimulus plan, has brought on the eighth attorney in the past year to join its growing infrastructure practice group. Kathryn Pett, a former...

Quinn Emanuel move entrepreneurial conditions eastward to Chicago

Posted on March 26, 2009
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, a Los Angeles-based business litigation law firm with about 400 lawyers, has quietly set up shop in Chicago, creating an office of six attorneys this month following the hiring of a new Chicago partner...

Settlement to help CA homeowners taken in by contractor fraud

Posted on March 25, 2009
Attorney General Jerry Brown and the Contractors State License Board said Monday they have finalized settlement of a lawsuit that alleged thousands of Californians were overcharged for substandard in-home work. The settlement with the primary company, SRVS Charge Inc...

Alien smuggling and forced labor scheme undone in federal court

Posted on March 25, 2009
The owner of two elder care homes in Long Beach has pleaded guilty on March 23, 2009 to bringing undocumented aliens into the United States and forcing two of them to work at her businesses. Evelyn Pelayo, 53, a resident...

Britney's father and revolving door of lawyers run a tight ship, so beware

Posted on March 25, 2009
Britney Spears' life is controlled by her father and her affairs handled by a cadre of attorneys seemingly as numerous and indispensable as the backup dancers who surround Spears onstage. At least 17 lawyers and firms have had a hand...

District judge has "no confidence" in state to run prison healthcare

Posted on March 25, 2009
U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson, who seized control of California's prison health system in 2006, rejected a bid by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown to end court oversight of healthcare in state prisons and to drop...

Violence against the homeless to be tracked as hate crimes

Posted on March 25, 2009
Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday unanimously recommended that sheriff's deputies, prosecutors and the county Human Relations Commission start tracking and reporting attacks on the homeless as hate crimes. The vote came as the economy worsens and the number of...

Prosecutor in Spector trial says to know him is to loathe him

Posted on March 24, 2009
In a two-hour closing argument supplemented by an elaborate audiovisual presentation, Deputy District Attorney Truc Do portrayed legendary music producer Phil Spector as a spoiled and sadistic celebrity who tormented women with impunity because he resided in an elite "world...

Prison guard union calls for reform at Hastings conference

Posted on March 24, 2009
California, with the largest prison system in the country, faces overcrowding levels that have reached nearly 200% of capacity. The federal courts have taken over managing the quality of mental health care in one civil rights suit and the physical...

Biggest pension funds in U.S. want to lead suits against BofA

Posted on March 24, 2009
The California Public Employees? Retirement System, or CalPERS, and the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) asked to lead investor lawsuits over the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. by Bank of America Corp. Investors in the group lawsuits allege...

Federal judge holding on marijuana sentence

Posted on March 24, 2009
Last August, a jury convicted Charles Lynch on five counts related to running a dispensary and selling medical marijuana to customers under 21, considered minors under a federal statute that prohibits the sale of marijuana and other narcotics to minors...

Assembly passes extended unemployment benefits

Posted on March 24, 2009
The state Assembly on Monday passed a bill to extend unemployment benefits in California, as lawmakers here took the first steps in drawing billions of dollars from the federal stimulus package. The bill was passed 76-0, and would extend unemployment...

Security firm accused of covering up Christmas Eve party murder

Posted on March 23, 2009
A federal lawsuit filed in San Diego claims an intoxicated employee of a private security agency randomly murdered an Iraqi vice president's guard after a 2006 Christmas Eve party and the company tried to cover it up. The suit filed...

LA judge finds banana lawsuits a little rotten

Posted on March 23, 2009
For more than a decade, dozens of lawsuits have been filed against Dole and many other defendants on behalf of thousands of workers who claim that they became sterile after being exposed to DBCP, or dibromochloropropane, on banana farms roughly...

Feinstein wants less development and Mojave

Posted on March 23, 2009
California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population is setting up a potential clash between conservationists and companies...

Assembly's concealed weapon magnum opus under fire

Posted on March 23, 2009
A bill introduced in the state Assembly last month would change a state law that currently gives county sheriffs or chiefs of police final say in who can carry a gun. By stripping the local law enforcement discretion, the bill...

DLA announces reductions in partner payouts

Posted on March 23, 2009
DLA Piper informed all of its U.S. partners on Friday that it will reduce pay for most of them by 11.5 percent in 2009, while strong performers will get more money. The firm projects revenue will decline 7 percent in...

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