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Both sides juiced by jury decision in Pom v. Welch

Posted on September 16, 2010
The jury reached a verdict on Monday in the latest skirmish between Welch Foods Inc. and Pom Wonderful LLC, and it satisfied both parties - and a little bit not. The jury found that Welch's did deceive customers through the...

9th Circuit rules in favor of railroad companies in pollution suit

Posted on September 16, 2010
The 9th Circuit ruled yesterday that he South Coast Air Quality Management District cannot limit pollution from idling trains because it would interfere with federal interstate commerce law. The Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 says state and local...

99 Cents Only hit with massive fines for selling illegal products

Posted on September 16, 2010
Chief Administrative Law Judge Susan L. Biro has ordered 99 Cents Only Stores to pay $409,490 in penalties for the illegal sale of unregistered and misbranded pesticides in household items, specifically three Mexico-made cleaning and pest control products...

Records of baseball steroid use illegally obtained, says 9th Circuit

Posted on September 14, 2010
The full 11-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that federal agents illegally seized confidential drug-testing records for hundreds of professional athletes during their raid of a a Bay Area lab. The court barred prosecutors...

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Manatt receives Award of Merit for work on AB 590

Posted on September 14, 2010
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced today that the Legal Aid Association of California (LAAC) has named the firm the recipient of the 2010 Award of Merit. The Award of Merit was created specifically to recognize Manatt's exceptional work in...

Justice Dept. Zen a message to Walnut with lawsuit

Posted on September 14, 2010
The Justice Department filed suit against the City of Walnut yesterday, claiming that by rejecting a permit for construction of a Buddhist center the city was in violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000. Federal...

Headscarf case to be reheard by Ninth Circuit

Posted on September 14, 2010
Yesterday the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to decide en banc whether Orange County Sheriff?s Department officers violated Souhair Khatib's constitutional rights by making her remove her hijab for security reasons while she was being held in a...

New veterans court to launch in Los Angeles

Posted on September 13, 2010
Los Angeles County is launching a pilot program today establishing a special court for veterans who have committed nonviolent felonies resulting from the emotional toll of their military service. All military personnel will be eligible, particularly those suffering from post-traumatic...

Blue Shield of California sued over doctor ratings

Posted on September 13, 2010
Last week the California Medical Association filed a class action suit against Blue Shield of California, alleging that the insurer's physician rating program is inaccurate and has the potential to mislead patients. Blue Shield?s Blue Ribbon Recognition Program posts blue...

Ninth Circuit ruling limits first sale doctrine

Posted on September 13, 2010
Timothy Vernor, a regular eBay seller, put four copies of the software Autodesk on eBay and was sent a DCMA takedown notice for each one. Vernor counternoticed every time, and when Autodesk failed to respond the auctions were reinstated. After...

Santa Rosa diocese hit with two more fraud and negligence suits

Posted on September 10, 2010
Two more former Humboldt County altar boys filed lawsuits yesterday against the Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa, claiming they were molested by the Rev. Patrick J. McCabe when he was assigned to their parish in Eureka during the 1980s. They...

ACLU files suit over school fees

Posted on September 10, 2010
The ACLU filed a suit in Los Angeles Superior Court today claiming the state of California is in violation of its own constitution by allowing school districts to charge fees for art courses, uniforms, textbooks, and in some cases even...

9th Circuit tattoo decision needles Hermosa Beach

Posted on September 10, 2010
Tom Waits once wrote about a feeling that was "harder to get rid of than tattoos." Thanks to a recent decision by the Ninth Circuit, tattoo parlors in Hermosa Beach may now be equally difficult to shake. Johnny Anderson, a...

Allen Matkins gains Piazza in Del Mar Heights

Posted on September 09, 2010
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP has announced that Ethna M.S. Piazza has joined its corporate practice group in the firm's Del Mar Heights office. For more than 25 years Piazza has advised entrepreneurs, investors, family-owned businesses and...

Cooley won't be pressing Alatorre and Roos with criminal charges

Posted on September 09, 2010
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley's Public Integrity Division has concluded that former Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alatorre was an unregistered lobbyist at City Hall from 2003 to 2007. Such activity qualifies as a misdemeanor violation of the...

Brothers charged in real estate scam

Posted on September 09, 2010
Two brothers, David and John Zepeda, were charged this week in a real estate foreclosure fraud that authorities said victimized more than 300 people throughout Southern California. San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said starting in 2006 the brothers...

Levin and Loui join Winston & Strawn in L.A.

Posted on September 08, 2010
Winston & Strawn LLP has announced that C. James Levin and Warren Loui have joined the firm?s Los Angeles office as partners. Levin joins Winston from O?Melveny & Myers LLP, where he was a partner in and former co-chair of...

Latest Bay-Delta suit tries new tactic: public trust

Posted on September 08, 2010
Three environmental groups filed a suit yesterday against the Department of Water Resources and the California State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento County Superior Court, calling for an injunction against water diversion from the Bay-Delta, alleging a violation of...

'Nash Bridges' judgment increased by nearly $28.5M

Posted on September 08, 2010
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael L. Stern has ordered that Rysher Entertainment LLC must pay Don Johnson Productions approximately $28.5 million in pre-judgment interest. In addition to a jury?s $23.2 million verdict from July, the total judgment amounts to...

Appeals court blocks 'torture flights' suit

Posted on September 08, 2010
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 6-5 in favor of dismissing a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan, a San Jose-based Boeing subsidiary accused of flying suspected terrorists to foreign countries for the purpose of being subjected to extreme interrogation...

9th Circuit rules UMG pays the pied piper in Eminem licensing case

Posted on September 07, 2010
F.B.T. Productions, Eminem's music publishing company, sued Universal Music Group in 2006 on behalf of the rapper, saying that the record company was taking too much in royalties from Eminem's music. At issue were the downloads from iTunes, which the...

Governor and AG won't be forced to defend Prop 8, but Imperial County volunteers

Posted on September 07, 2010
Last week the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento dismissed without comment a lawsuit seeking to compel Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling that overturned Prop 8...

For not stopping trial so defendant could visit dying son, 9th Circuit overturns conviction

Posted on September 07, 2010
U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer refused to stop a tax fraud trial so the defendant could be at his son's deathbed and did not inform the jury why the defendant was absent for the final day of trial. For...

Pom vs. Welch opens in CA

Posted on September 02, 2010
Opening statements began yesterday in a trial pitting Pom Wonderful LLC against juice-making giant Welch Foods Inc. over the marketing of their pomegranate juice products. Attorney Todd Theodora, senior attorney at Theodora Oringher Miller & Richman and representing Pom Wonderful,...

Judge rules for - and against - changes in election statements

Posted on September 02, 2010
Orange County Superior Court Judge Kim Dunning in Santa Ana ruled Wednesday that revisions must be made to two political statements that will be printed in the Capistrano Unified School District's official election materials this fall. Candidate John Alpay cannot...

Ogletree Deakins adds two shareholders in O.C. office

Posted on September 02, 2010
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. welcomes two new shareholders to the firm?s Orange County office. Andrew J. Jaramillo and Michael J. Sexton are both employment litigators and formerly with Payne & Fears LLP in the firm?s Irvine office....

Suit against Facebook claims exploitation of minors for commercial gain

Posted on September 01, 2010
A class action was filed on August 26 against Facebook Inc. in Los Angeles County. The suit alleges that the social networking site illegally uses the names and likenesses of minors in California for advertising and other commercial purposes. Anthony...

Mandel joins McGuireWoods in L.A.

Posted on September 01, 2010
McGuireWoods LLP announced that Michael Mandel has joined the firm?s Los Angeles office as a partner with the Labor and Employment group, where he will counsel clients on all aspects of labor and employment litigation. Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Mandel...

Death row executions on hold again in CA

Posted on September 01, 2010
Marin County Superior Court Judge Verna Adams issued a ruling yesterday that said a 2007 injunction against executions remained in force "unless and until" the court approves newly revised lethal injection procedures. The ruling was made at a hearing in...

McCourt divorce trial opens in Los Angeles

Posted on August 31, 2010
The contentious divorce trial of Frank and Jamie McCourt opened in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Monday. Attorneys for the parties hauled more than 20 boxes of documents and dozens more binders of exhibits into a packed courtroom where...

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