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Countrywide points fingers of their own at AIG

Posted on March 20, 2009
In a lawsuit filed this week, Countrywide Home Loans Inc. complained that its insurer American International Group Inc. didn't cover more than $43 million in losses from failed real estate loans, many of which were bundled and sold as securities...

Plaintiffs object to amended complaint in Thelen case

Posted on March 20, 2009
Two former Thelen employees who have sued their former employer in San Francisco Superior Court for unpaid wages and vacation time are objecting to a stipulation in a separate case in federal court that allows an amended complaint to be...

AG to announce details of med lab suit

Posted on March 20, 2009
The state is suing seven private medical laboratories, alleging they overcharged Medi-Cal as much as 400 percent for lab tests conducted over the last 15 years and costing the program hundreds of millions of dollars. The suit, which was originally...

Courts likely to uphold AIG bonus tax

Posted on March 20, 2009
Courts probably will uphold Congress?s effort to tax employee bonuses at American International Group Inc. and other companies receiving federal bailout funds, several legal experts said. ?Given the state of the law, it will be unlikely that the Supreme Court...

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Holder nips former pot policy in the bud

Posted on March 19, 2009
U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday that the Justice Department has no plans to prosecute pot dispensaries that are operating legally under state laws in California and a dozen other states -- a development that medical marijuana...

Cultural divide over gay marriage inspires negotiation

Posted on March 19, 2009
In the wake of Proposition 8, compromise abounds almost as much as contention. Many of these seem to center around removing the word "marriage" from the argument. Last week two Southern California students spearheaded a ballot initiative that would eliminate...

Minesinger reappointed to SoCal Fair Board

Posted on March 19, 2009
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reappointed attorney Kenneth W. Minesinger on Tuesday to the Southern California Fair Board of Directors. Minesinger has worked as an attorney at Minesinger Law Firm since 2008 and previously worked for Heritage Law Offices in 2007...

Kay comes out swinging at contempt hearing

Posted on March 19, 2009
"These charges should never have been brought," a defiant Philip Kay told State Bar Court Judge Lucy Armendariz in an extremely contentious Wednesday morning session in San Francisco. Refusing to answer most questions and demanding to be referred to an...

Two cases reconsider affirmative action ban

Posted on March 19, 2009
On March 17 a state appeals court approved the Berkeley school district's voluntary integration plan, concluding that its unique plan to consider the racial makeup of a neighborhood, rather than individual students, does not violate the terms of Prop...

School officials not over the moon about "Rent" symptomatic of deeper issues, says ACLU

Posted on March 18, 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California announced a suit against Newport-Mesa Unified School District and Corona del Mar school officials for allegedly breeding an atmosphere hostile to female and gay students, citing the brief cancellation of a school...

Christensen taps Morrison & Foerster as replacement appeals counsel

Posted on March 18, 2009
Terry Christensen, the lawyer who was convicted last year on charges related to wiretapping his opponent in a high-profile child support case, has replaced the attorneys handling his appeal. This month, two lawyers representing Kerkorian in civil litigation associated with...

Shinderman joins Milbank

Posted on March 18, 2009
Milbank, Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP announced last week that Mark Shinderman has joined the firm as a partner. He will be a member of the Firm?s Financial Restructuring Group, resident in the Los Angeles office. Previously, Mr. Shinderman was...

New Yoo review spurs new protests, defenses

Posted on March 18, 2009
At the beginning of March, the government released several previously undisclosed memoranda by John Yoo, now infamous for the so-called "torture memos." The Justice Department will soon complete a review of his conduct. According to a Newsweek report, the department...

Hazarding guesses at next bench picks

Posted on March 18, 2009
A day after President Obama picked his first nominee for the federal bench, there is rampant speculation over who will fill the vacancies on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In California, three Northern District judges are seen as...

9th Circuit deems open membership rule "reasonable"

Posted on March 18, 2009
In a one-paragraph decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Hastings College of Law of the University of California was within its rights to deny recognition to a branch of the Christian Legal Society....

Legal budget cuts resulting in ousting of in-house

Posted on March 18, 2009
While mass layoffs at big law firms have grabbed headlines in recent months, in-house attorneys also have had their jobs taken away. At tech companies like Creative Labs, eBay, Symantec Corp. and Cadence Design Systems Inc., lawyers have been let...

Immigrant detention fees a surprising source of income for cities

Posted on March 17, 2009
Roughly two-thirds of the nation's immigrant detainees are held in local jails, and the payments to cities and counties for housing them have increased as the federal government has cracked down on illegal immigrants with criminal records and outstanding deportation...

Eight-year civil suit ends in favor of drinking water

Posted on March 17, 2009
On Friday, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Lawrence W. Fry ruled in an eight year old battle over whether Vail Lake should remain a source of drinking water. Bill Johnson and the Rancho California Water District clashed in court over...

Cardinal to testify in clergy abuse case

Posted on March 17, 2009
Marking only the second time he has taken the witness stand to answer questions about alleged molestation by priests, Cardinal Roger Mahony is expected to testify in a clergy sexual abuse lawsuit in Fresno today. Two brothers say they were...

Signs still blocking out the scenery in LA

Posted on March 17, 2009
In a tentative ruling, U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins found the city of Los Angeles in contempt for taking enforcement actions against one outdoor advertising company, World Wide Rush LLC, which has 21 supergraphic sites in the city. The...

Pay cuts may save more than layoffs, group says

Posted on March 17, 2009
The Project for Attorney Retention is part of the Center of WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and it advocates for reduced hours as a way for law firms to retain...

Former DTSC director joins Alston & Bird

Posted on March 17, 2009
Alston & Bird LLP named Maureen Gorsen, formerly the Director of California?s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), as a partner in the firm?s Environmental and Land Development Practice. During her tenure as director, Gorsen increased the DTSC?s transparency and...

Ruling allows city to void union contracts

Posted on March 17, 2009
In the first ruling of its kind, a bankruptcy judge held the city of Vallejo, Calif. has the authority to void its existing union contracts in its effort to reorganize, holding public workers do not enjoy the same protections Congress...

McMartin defense lawyer to revisit Alamo

Posted on March 17, 2009
In 1991, California attorney Danny Davis represented evangelist Tony Alamo in a child-abuse case that never went to trial. Nearly 20 years later, Davis is going to bat for Alamo again to fight federal charges of taking girls across state...

Obama taps Bleich for special counsel

Posted on March 17, 2009
Jeffrey Bleich, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson, has been asked to become special counsel to President Obama. A former California co-chairman of the Obama for America campaign, Bleich will provide legal advice and counsel to the Office of...

Free associating

Posted on March 16, 2009
A handful of Am Law 100 firms are offering stipends to hundreds of law graduates if they work for a public interest group for a year. Legal aid organizations are eager for free help, though they say they need to...

Obama noms for judgeships gotta have heart

Posted on March 16, 2009
President Obama is preparing to name six new federal judges for California, an opportunity to put his stamp on the judiciary that has court-watchers recalling his campaign promises to be bipartisan in his selections. Many liberals say they are hoping...

Cleanup costs at Stringfellow are in good hands with Allstate et al., court finds

Posted on March 16, 2009
On Monday the court affirmed an appellate ruling that four insurers are liable for over $500 million in one of California's most notorious environmental disaster sites, the Stringfellow Acid Pits in Riverside County, even though the state's own actions were...

"The most extravagant proposal for inmate health care" may go to Supreme Court

Posted on March 16, 2009
The legal challenges over California's inmate medical and mental health care systems date back to 1991 and initiated studies that found the system was indeed failing prisoners. Some doctors, for example, reused tongue depressors, passing them from patient to patient...

Hedges, lawyer and archaeologist, succumbs to melanoma at 57

Posted on March 13, 2009
George Hedges, the Hollywood lawyer to celebrities such as Mel Gibson and Simon Cowell who became a celebrity himself for his discoveries of the fabled ancient city of Ubar and the frankincense trade route in Yemen, died Tuesday at his...

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