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Lauten, famed Normandy figure and SoCal water district general manager, passes away

Posted on April 06, 2010
John H. Lauten, who helped plan the invasion of Normandy as an Army captain during World War II and later became the first non-engineer to oversee the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, has died. He was 96. Lauten earned...

Sea Org member will not see wages, says judge

Posted on April 06, 2010
According to an AP story, U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer dismissed part of a lawsuit filed against the Church of Scientology by a woman who alleged she worked 100-hour weeks for almost no pay for years. Claire Headley sued the...

New associates at Horvitz & Levy

Posted on April 05, 2010
Horvitz & Levy LLP has added Jason J. Jarvis and Andrea A. Ambrose to its team. Mr. Jarvis previously worked for national law firms in Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alice...

Louis Klein joins Meyers Nave

Posted on April 05, 2010
Louis C. Klein has joined Meyers Nave as Of Counsel in their labor and employment practice. Mr. Klein has successfully represented public and private employers in various types of employment matters, including whistleblowing retaliation actions, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, wage...

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Former Paul Hastings associate new deputy executive director at ACLU

Posted on April 05, 2010
James Gilliam, a former associate at Paul Hastings, is moving to the ACLU of Southern California as their deputy executive director. He will also be the deputy executive of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, where he has served on...

Toledano and client indicted for extortion

Posted on April 05, 2010
James Toledano, the former chairman of Orange County's Democratic Party and a three-time Assembly candidate, has been indicted by an Orange County grand jury on two felony counts related to an alleged extortion scheme. Toledano was representing Michael Earl Roberts,...

McCoy weighs in on AOC report

Posted on April 05, 2010
Okay, so maybe things are as bad as we thought. Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Charles "Tim" McCoy Jr. wrote a letter on March 31 to the Judicial Council of California, saying that the recent AOC report downplaying the...

Kozinski rules 'downer' animal ban extends to pigs

Posted on April 01, 2010
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski ruled yesterday that a California law against slaughtering livestock that is unable to walk can be applied to pigs. The decision nixes a preliminary injunction granted to the National Meat...

SoCal attorney charged in insurance scam

Posted on April 01, 2010
Los Angeles attorney Susana Ragos Chung surrendered to police on Tuesday after Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley's office charged her with 28 felony crimes. Chung is alleged to have filed false car insurance claims on behalf of Bay Area...

ACLU SoCal wins release of mentally disabled immigrants

Posted on April 01, 2010
Jose Antonio Franco-Gonzalez and Guillermo Gomez Sanchez, two mentally disabled men who have been held in immigration detention for nearly five years, will be released to their families in the wake of petitions filed on their behalf by the American...

Haidl conviction affirmed

Posted on March 31, 2010
A three-judge panel from the 4th District Court of Appeal affirmed the sexual-assault conviction of Greg Haidl and two other men yesterday, dismissing arguments from the men's lawyers that an Orange County Superior Court jury should have heard about the...

Former worker at upscale senior facility on trial for abuse and torture

Posted on March 31, 2010
Cesar Ulloa, a 21-year-old employee at the Silverado Senior Living facility, is on trial in Van Nuys. He is charged with seven counts of elder abuse and one count of torture. A witness said she walked into a room and...

New human rights clinic to start at Gould

Posted on March 31, 2010
Hannah Garry, clinical assistant professor of law at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, has been hired by USC Gould School of Law to launch an international human rights clinic. The new clinic will allow students to...

AOC paints a less catastrophic budget picture in L.A.

Posted on March 31, 2010
It's bad, but maybe not as bad as initially imagined. Earlier this month, Los Angeles court officials announced that the budget crisis necessitated the laying off of 329 workers and the closing of 17 courtrooms. Another 500 people would be...

Harassment suit between former gay employee and TBN has been settled

Posted on March 30, 2010
Brian Dugger, an engineer for Trinity Broadcasting Network, sued the Christian television giant a year ago, claiming harassment and discrimination. Filed in Orange County Superior Court and moved to federal court, the suit sought at least $1.9 million in punitive...

Opposition to Liu delivered in writing from CA DAs

Posted on March 30, 2010
A battle is being waged for public opinion over President Obama's recent nominee to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a letter to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, 42 of California's 58 county district attorneys expressed their...

Take a class with Yoo, tell your friends you met a conservative

Posted on March 30, 2010
That's what the controversial law professor thinks may be behind the high enrollment in his classes at Berkeley. So says a recent profile in the Los Angeles Times.Yoo likens his presence at the liberal enclave to "West Berlin during the...

Conflict of interest ruled in Seyfarth malpractice case

Posted on March 30, 2010
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Mooney has blocked Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher from representing Seyfarth Shaw in a malpractice case brought by Billy Blanks. In a March 18 bench ruling, the judge determined that Gibson Dunn could not...

Irvine firm welcomes two new litiation attorneys

Posted on March 29, 2010
Yesterday the Wolf Firm announced the addition of two new attorneys to its litigation department. Joseph J. Nardulli will be lead trial counsel and Chanel L. Oldham will be a new associate litigation attorney. Mr. Nardulli, who formerly was the...

Mountain View affordable apartment units in question

Posted on March 29, 2010
Last year, an appellate court determined Los Angeles could not require a developer to include below-market-rate units because landlords have the right to set rent levels. In October, the California Supreme Court decided not to hear the case. Bad timing...

ACLU demands release of two men in immigration detention

Posted on March 29, 2010
Petitions filed in Los Angeles and San Diego by civil rights groups contend that two mentally disabled men who have been held in immigration detention for nearly five years should be freed. According to a statement from the American Civil...

Pipe manufacturing company fights whistleblower suit

Posted on March 29, 2010
JM Eagle is the world?s largest maker of plastic pipe, with products used in water and sewage lines and electrical and gas distribution systems across the globe. But now Nevada, Virginia, Delaware, Tennessee and 43 municipalities and water districts, including...

Cal Supremes tell Hare Krishnas pamphlets, yes; solicitation, no

Posted on March 25, 2010
According to the Los Angeles Times, the California Supreme Court today upheld an ordinance that prohibits Hare Krishna members and other groups from soliciting money at Los Angeles International Airport. They can distribute their literature and speak to willing people,...

Judge's order stops furloughs

Posted on March 25, 2010
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch had originally ordered the state last month to discontinue furloughs that affected thousands of California state attorneys and administrative law judges. That ruling was stayed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Multidistrict Litigation Panel shops for Toyota suits location

Posted on March 25, 2010
The seven-member U.S. Panel on Multidistrict Litigation is being asked today to consolidate dozens of proposed class-action lawsuits filed by Toyota owners to appear before a single court. The owners claim the value of their vehicles has plummeted after millions...

Stockton loan scam victim now a debt collector

Posted on March 24, 2010
Keith Tinney, a 66-year-old homeowner who fell victim to a forensic loan audit scam, was awarded $2,995 in San Joaquin County Superior Court's small claims division yesterday. The award was in the amount Tinney paid to Southern California businessman Paul...

Indictments handed down in SoCal mortgage loan scam

Posted on March 24, 2010
Yesterday federal prosecutors announced the indictment of Glenn Steven Rosofsky and Michael Trap, two Southern California men charged with running a loan modification scam. According to the indictment, the men ran a business called Nations Housing Modification Center (or sometimes...

BARBRI plaintiffs' firms looking for a Real challenge

Posted on March 23, 2010
McGuireWoods, one of the firms involved in obtaining a $49 million settlement in an antitrust class action against the parent company of BARBRI, are planning another go-round before the 9th Circuit with an appeal over their fees. The notice of...

Appleton explains harsher economic realities in Hollywood

Posted on March 23, 2010
"Cash break zero deals" may not be as unwelcome a phrase in Hollywood as "An Alan Smithee film," but it does signal that the days of actors receiving big bucks whether or not their film is a hit are over...

Law firms among new targets of cyberscammers

Posted on March 22, 2010
In January of this year, the FBI issued a warning alerting law firms to scammers purporting to need help collecting delinquent payments or divorce settlement money. The State Bar of California issued a similar warning in May. A recent report...

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