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Appeals court stays med-marijuana store closings in Lake Forest

Posted on July 08, 2010
The 4th District Court of Appeal has granted a temporary stay allowing two medical marijuana dispensaries to remain open in the city of Lake Forest. Those dispensaries are Lake Forest Wellness Center and Collective and Independent Collective of Orange County...

Pasadena Playhouse comes out of Chapter 11

Posted on July 08, 2010
Pasadena Playhouse has announced that after nearly two months, they have emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and their financial reorganization plan has been approved by the courts. The Playhouse's executive director Steven Eich praised the "indefatigable efforts" of pro bono...

A burger by any other name ...

Posted on July 08, 2010
Call it TEFKAF: The Eatery Formerly Known as Fatburger. Richard Brown had opened a Fatburger franchise in 1991, but went independent when his contract was up in 1999, renaming his establishment "Biggie's Burgers & More." In 2004 Brown noticed that...

DLA Piper snags former SEC attorney in Los Angeles

Posted on July 08, 2010
This week DLA Piper announced that Patrick Hunnius has joined the firm as Senior Counsel in its Litigation practice in Los Angeles. Hunnius joins DLA Piper from White & Case in Los Angeles. Hunnius has a wide range of experience...

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Rysher will appeal

Posted on July 08, 2010
Bart H. Williams of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP has released a statement proclaiming Rysher Entertainment's intentions to appeal yesterday's "Nash Bridges" verdict.

Under pressure from environmental groups, Berkeley attorney withdraws from delta panel

Posted on July 07, 2010
Richard Roos-Collins, a Berkeley environmental lawyer, was one of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's appointees to the newly created Delta Stewardship. He had been working on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan for several years. That plan was an effort to rehabilitate the...

Brandenburg appointed to CA State-Federal Judicial Council Tribal Court Relations Subcommittee

Posted on July 07, 2010
Anthony Brandenburg, chief judge of the Intertribal Court of Southern California, has been appointed by California Chief Justice Ronald M. George, and Senior Circuit Judge Arthur L. Alarc�n of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, to serve...

Maximum damages levied against country's largest nursing home chain

Posted on July 07, 2010
More than seven months after it began, what many believe to be the longest civil suit in Humboldt County history has finally come to an end. The jury in the class-action lawsuit against Skilled Healthcare opted to impose the maximum...

New tax partner and associate for Loeb & Loeb in L.A.

Posted on July 07, 2010
Loeb & Loeb has announced that Chris Campbell joined the firm?s Tax Group as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Campbell will be joined by associate Ryan Austin. Campbell and Austin join from O?Melveny and Myers. Chris Campbell focuses...

Don Johnson awarded $23.2 million in 'Nash Bridges' back profits

Posted on July 07, 2010
Don Johnson once sang about "looking for a heartbeat." He found one in a Los Angeles jury today. The actor had sued Rysher Entertainment, 2929 Entertainment and Qualia Capital for close to $100 million he said he was owed for...

Toyota MDL gets two special masters

Posted on July 06, 2010
U.S. District Judge James Selna has appointed John Trotter and Steven Stone as special masters to help him move the more than 200 lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. through the court. Stone and Trotter will focus particularly on discovery matters....

Appeals court approves Schwarzenegger's minimum wage order for state workers

Posted on July 06, 2010
The 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento ruled on Friday in favor of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reducing state workers' pay to the federal minimum wage because the state budget is late. This would amount, for most employees, to $7.25...

L.A. Judge delays med-marijuana decision

Posted on July 06, 2010
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mohr put off a decision last week on whether to bar the city from enforcing its new medical marijuana ordinance against Green Horizon Collective in Chatsworth, 420 Caregivers in Hollywood, 420 Collective...

ACLU sues FBI challenging no-fly list

Posted on July 06, 2010
Corona resident Halime Sat joined nine plaintiffs in a case filed by the ACLU against head officials at the FBI. The suit challenges the U.S. government's no-fly list, calling it unconstitutional and a violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act...

New tax partner for DLA Piper in L.A.

Posted on July 06, 2010
DLA Piper has announced that Michael F. Patton has joined the firm?s Tax practice as a partner in the Los Angeles office. He joins from Ernst & Young, where he was a Principal and a member of the International Tax...

Pierce O'Donnell asks for a rehearing

Posted on July 02, 2010
Trial attorney Pierce O'Donnell was indicted on charges that he reimbursed 13 employees of his law firm, now called O'Donnell & Associates in Los Angeles, and others who contributed $26,000 in 2003 to the presidential campaign of former U.S. Sen....

Mullin joins Alston & Bird

Posted on July 02, 2010
Alston & Bird LLP has announced the addition of Marsha Mullin, previously of Jones Day, as counsel in their Los Angeles office. Mullin primarily focuses her practice on patent infringement actions involving a wide variety of technologies, including communications satellites,...

iPhone 4 users looking for face time in court

Posted on July 02, 2010
As of Thursday afternoon, three class actions were pending against Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California over the "death grip" of the latest iPhone 4's allegedly defective antenna. On Tuesday, Sacramento firm Kershaw, Cutter...

Governor appoints, among others, 11 L.A. Superior Court judges

Posted on July 01, 2010
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed 11 judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday. He also named five others to state superior courts and tapped a new justice for the Fifth District Court of Appeal, according to the Metropolitan News-Enterprise...

Latest angle in Catholic Church sex abuse suits: fraud

Posted on July 01, 2010
The Sacramento Bee has a story today about attorney Joseph George, who is utilizing what law professor Larry Levine calls "a creative legal theory" to combat clergy sexual abuse: suing the California Catholic Church for fraud and negligence. George has...

Judge dismisses Metrolink camera challenge

Posted on July 01, 2010
U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson in Los Angeles has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen that claimed Metrolink violated employees' rights by installing cameras to monitor train engineer activities. The cameras were placed in...

Bergstein strikes back at creditors in court

Posted on July 01, 2010
Pangea Media Group CEO David Bergstein and his allies are not only contesting the facts presented by creditors who brought an involuntary bankruptcy action against him in federal court, but they are demanding that Aramid Capital Partners, which has been...

First-run film online pirates are first nine takedowns in new fed initiative

Posted on July 01, 2010
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Justice Department officials announced yesterday that they have shut down nine Web sites as part of an initiative to bring criminal actions against sites that sell counterfeited goods and pirated movies...

Cherry bombs and 'Cherry Bomb' will proceed in La Jolla

Posted on June 30, 2010
La Jolla Cove will get its fireworks show after all. Joan Jett, too. Attorney Marco Gonzalez, representing the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation, had been trying to have the fireworks show moved off the cove because the aerial explosions harmed the...

Art school owners sued for defrauding immigrants

Posted on June 30, 2010
Dozens of immigrant families say they were duped into paying tuition for classes at several art schools that ultimately folded, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Trisha Ying Zi Zhang and Edgar Kuckelkorn, the owners...

Parker joins ADR Services

Posted on June 30, 2010
ADR Services, Inc. has announced the addition of Keith M. Parker, Esq. to their panel. Formerly a partner with Latham & Watkins representing large employers in discrimination and wrongful termination litigation and large government contractors in civil and criminal investigations,...

New name partner at Levene Neale

Posted on June 30, 2010
Levene, Neale, Bender, Rankin & Brill L.L.P. has elected Timothy J. Yoo a name partner and announced that the firm has changed its name to Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo and Brill L.L.P., effective immediately. Yoo, who focuses primarily on commercial...

Temporary stay issued for Dana Point med-marijuana hearing

Posted on June 29, 2010
The 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana issued a temporary stay of a preliminary-injunction hearing scheduled for Tuesday that might have led to the closing of Beach Cities Collective, a medical marijuana dispensary. Malinda Traudt, who was born...

Challenges expected to gun restrictions in wake of Supreme Court ruling

Posted on June 29, 2010
The recent Supreme Court decision effectively removing Chicago's three-decade old ban on handguns will undoubtedly lead to legal challenges to similar restrictions in California -- at least, if CalCCW.com gets its way. Greg Block, a Huntington Beach firearms trainer and...

Venable adds Nassiri to bankruptcy practice in L.A.

Posted on June 29, 2010
Venable announced today that it has added insolvency and restructuring attorney Jennifer L. Nassiri to its Los Angeles office. She will serve as Of Counsel to the firm. Nassiri comes to Venable from DLA Piper. She came to Venable to...

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