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Kelly increases attack on Toyota

Posted on January 26, 2010
Michael Kelly, managing partner of Los Angeles-based Kirtland & Packard, now has two lawsuits pending against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. The first suit was filed on November 17th in Los Angeles federal court representing two Southern California customers, one...

Spherix partners pay and cooperate in Galleon investigation

Posted on January 26, 2010
Ali T. Far and Richard Choo-Beng Lee, partners at San Jose, California-based Spherix, have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in a wide-ranging insider-trading investigation of hedge funds and are aiding federal prosecutors a U.S. probe of Galleon Group LLC...

Conflict-of-interest charges dropped in long-running pension case

Posted on January 26, 2010
Yesterday the California Supreme Court threw out criminal charges filed by the San Diego County district attorney against five former members of the city retirement board stemming from the city's pension controversy. The court decided that those five could not...

New team leader at Dykema

Posted on January 26, 2010
Dykema has announced that J. Kevin Snyder has been appointed team leader of the firm?s Class Action Defense Team in Los Angeles. Snyder's practice focuses on complex business and intellectual property litigation in state and federal courts. He has represented...

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LA passes medical marijuana ordinance

Posted on January 26, 2010
The Los Angeles City Council today finally approved an ordinance that will cap the number of medical marijuana dispensaries at 70, close more than 500 that have opened since the Council began debating the ordinance, and strictly regulate the location...

Another victory for Lorillard

Posted on January 25, 2010
After nearly eight weeks, a Los Angeles jury found in favor of the defendants in Cox v. Asbestos Corporation, Ltd. Robert Cox did smoke Lorillard's Kent cigarettes with filters that contained asbestos, but the jury concluded that there was no...

Botox on trial in Santa Ana

Posted on January 25, 2010
Jury selection will begin today in Santa Ana for a lawsuit brought by the mother of a 7-year-old Texas girl who died after receiving Botox injections. Plaintiffs include surviving relatives of patients who died after Botox treatments and patients who...

'Caperton' exonerates recusing/nonrecusing judge

Posted on January 25, 2010
Relying on last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Caperton v. Massey, the California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a judge did not violate a defendant's due process rights by overseeing her criminal trial after initially recusing himself from...

Sentencing for Greens delayed until March

Posted on January 21, 2010
Gerald and Patricia Green were convicted in September of last year of bribing Thai officials to control the Bangkok International Film Festival. Sentencing was expected today, but according to the Associated Press, U.S. District Judge George Wu has pushed back...

Obama to nominate local attorney to State Justice Institute board

Posted on January 21, 2010
The Metropolitan News-Enterprise reports today that President Obama intends to nominate Hern�n D. Vera, the president and chief executive officer of Public Counsel, to the Board of Directors of the State Justice Institute. Prior to joining Public Counsel in 2002,...

Residents take UC Berkeley frats to court

Posted on January 21, 2010
Residents near UC Berkeley's southern edge filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court against dozens of fraternities, contending that they make life miserable for neighbors by encouraging underage drinking, littering sidewalks and streets, partying all night and...

Nora Quinn to run for Superior Court judgeship

Posted on January 21, 2010
Administrative Law Judge Nora A. Quinn is planning to mount a campaign for an open seat on the Los Angeles Superior Court. According to the Metropolitan News-Enterprise, Quinn is in the process of forming a campaign committee and will be...

New corporate partner at K&L Gates in OC

Posted on January 21, 2010
The Orange County office of K&L Gates has added Michael A. Hedge as a partner in its corporate practice. Hedge advises public and private companies on corporate finance, venture capital, securities, and merger & acquisition transactions. His clients have included...

Cal Supreme say no limit on med marijuana possession

Posted on January 21, 2010
The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that state lawmakers were wrong to change provisions in Proposition 215, passed in 1996 and allowing patients with a doctor's recommendation to possess an unspecified amount of marijuana. In order to give law...

ELARC under fire for eliminating funding for autism treatment

Posted on January 19, 2010
Yesterday attorneys with Public Counsel and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP filed a class action law suit and preliminary injunction on behalf of children with autism against the Eastern Los Angeles Regional Center. The plaintiffs allege that ELARC illegally eliminated...

Florence-Marie Cooper dies

Posted on January 19, 2010
U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, a former legal secretary who rose to the federal judiciary and held accountable some of the nation's most powerful officials and institutions, died early Friday in Santa Monica after suffering a stroke. She was 69...

Central Coast pot dispensaries spark controversies in shadow of possible ban

Posted on January 19, 2010
Purple Cross Rx, a medical marijuana dispensary that opened a couple weeks ago in Hollister, is already preparing for its first legal battle. Officials in Hollister claim the dispensary is operating in violation of zoning laws. They plan to serve...

Pro-life demonstrator may face prison

Posted on January 19, 2010
At 75 years of age, pro-life activist Ross Foti has been a regular fixture demonstrating in front of the San Mateo Planned Parenthood clinic since 2001. A stipulated injunction Foti agreed to in 2004 prevents him from parking his truck,...

Glendale resident one of three men charged in possible nuke smuggling scheme

Posted on January 14, 2010
According to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Jirair Avanessian, an Iranian-born chemical engineer living in Glendale, was paid several hundred thousand dollars to ship "high-dollar vacuum pumps and pump-related" equipment to Iran...

Supreme Court says no to Prop 8 video broadcast

Posted on January 14, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, continued the stay on transmitting video coverage of the Prop 8 trial. The conservative majority wrote that defenders of the ban on gay marriage would suffer "irreparable" harm should the trial be...

Governor announces three new appointments

Posted on January 13, 2010
Governor Schwarzenegger announced last week that he had appointed three attorneys to various state posts. He named former Public Utilities Commission member Rachelle Chong as special counsel of advanced information and communications technologies for the Office of the State Chief...

Blank Rome lands six new attorneys in LA

Posted on January 13, 2010
Blank Rome announced yesterday that it has added six new attorneys to its Los Angeles office - five to build a new labor and employment practice and a sixth who specializes in corporate law. The labor attorneys, who announced their...

Tobisman named partner at Greines Martin

Posted on January 13, 2010
Greines Martin Stein & Richland LLP has announced that Cynthia Tobisman has been named partner. She joined the firm in 2001 after practicing as a litigator and transactional attorney for three years following her graduation from Boalt Hall School of....

CA prison plan, pending appeal, OK'd by panel judges

Posted on January 13, 2010
U.S. District Judges Thelton Henderson and Lawrence Karlton and 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt make up the panel that ordered the state of California to educe its prison population by about 40,000 inmates to improve medical...

LA Council takes up marijuana again

Posted on January 13, 2010
The Los Angeles City Council meets again today after a month's hiatus to consider the regulation of medical marijuana dispensaries. Last month the council stalled on the subject, postponing debate until city planners completed a detailed analysis of several proposals...

Anti-gang activist has bail reconsidered in hearing today

Posted on January 13, 2010
U.S. District Court Judge Manuel Real will hear arguments today on whether Alex Sanchez, an anti-gang activist accused of still participating in gang life, should be granted bail or kept in jail. Sanchez allegedly gave an order to kill a...

Practices at Challenger youth center challenged by ACLU

Posted on January 13, 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and other legal groups filed a class-action lawsuit yesterday against the Probation Department and the county Office of Education, alleging that the Challenger Memorial Youth Center in Lancaster has failed "to deliver...

Sixty guilty pleas in Mongols racketeering case

Posted on January 13, 2010
Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, said yesterday that 60 of the 79 Mongols Motorcycle Club members arrested in a federal sweep have pleaded guilty to racketeering charges. About 10 of those who entered guilty pleas have been...

Squire Sanders adds corporate lawyer Hsu to LA office

Posted on January 12, 2010
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP announced last week announced last week that James L. Hsu has joined their Los Angeles office as partner. He joins Squire Sanders from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP. Hsu is a corporate lawyer who advises...

Cyclist-assaulting physician sentenced to five years

Posted on January 12, 2010
Christopher Thomas Thompson, a doctor and the founder of a medical records company, was found guilty last Friday of six felonies and a misdemeanor for assaulting a pair of cyclists with his car. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott T....

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