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Fish & Richardson named Pro Bono Firm of the Year

Posted on August 31, 2010
Fish & Richardson has been named the 2010 Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year by the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, Inc. (SDVLP), a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide free legal services in civil matters to indigent...

Appeals court rules mandatory 30-day warning program for each new red-light camera installation

Posted on August 31, 2010
The Orange Superior Court Appellate Division ruled in a July 23 decision that the statutory requirement of a 30-day warning program before a locality can issue tickets to motorists caught on automated cameras going through red lights applies each time...

Dirk Burley new L.A. associate for Dykema

Posted on August 30, 2010
Dykema has announced that Dirk Soung Burley has joined the firm?s Litigation Department as an Associate, resident in the Los Angeles office. Mr. Burley?s practice focuses on general commercial litigation matters. Most recently he was a law clerk for the...

Mistrial declared in Nguyen case

Posted on August 30, 2010
The Orange County Register reports that as of Friday night the jury in the Tan Nguyen case was unable to reach a verdict. U.S. District Judge David O. Carter polled the jurors shortly before 5 p.m. and then declared a...

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Todd Spitzer no longer an ADA

Posted on August 30, 2010
Todd Spitzer has been fired. According to Spitzer himself, he was let go because of the way he handled an information request with the county Public Administrator/Public Guardian Office. Public Administrator/Guardian John Williams issued a statement on Saturday that, while...

Mistrial in Skilled Healthcare trial denied

Posted on August 30, 2010
Humboldt County Judge Bruce Watson ruled on Friday that he found no evidence of juror misconduct in the class action lawsuit against Skilled Healthcare and therefore no grounds for a mistrial. The motion was filed earlier this month in response...

Cal State Stanislaus ordered to make Palin appearance documents public

Posted on August 27, 2010
Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Roger M. Beauchesne has ordered Cal State Stanislaus officials to release documents related to Sarah Palin's fundraising appearance at the university, saying it was a violation of the state's open-records law to have refused to...

Presbyterian court rules Spahr violated faith constitution

Posted on August 27, 2010
A Presbyterian church court in Napa ruled today that although the Rev. Dr. Jane Adams Spahr did not disrupt the "peace, unity and purity of the church" by performing more than a dozen same-sex marriages during the brief period when...

Fees in Madera Unified election law suit drastically lessened

Posted on August 27, 2010
Superior Court Judge James Oakley has reduced the amount of legal fees sought by attorneys over an election law suit filed against the Madera Unified School District. According to officials, lawyers initally billed the district for $1.2 million, which was...

Los Angeles countersues to shut down medical marijuana clinics

Posted on August 27, 2010
Nearly 30 lawsuits have been filed challenging Los Angeles' ordinance to limit the number of medical marijuana dispensaries to 41. In turn, the city has filed a countersuit asking Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mohr to back its decision. Under...

Ninth Circuit says Price is right to sue ABC for defamation

Posted on August 25, 2010
The Rev. Frederick Price sued ABC and then-"20/20" correspondent John Stossel for defamation in 2007 over footage of a sermon that made it seem Price was boasting about his riches. In fact, in the part of the sermon televised, Price...

Huntington Beach school board member ordered to change election statement

Posted on August 25, 2010
Ocean View School District board member John Briscoe will have to change his election statement, according to a Superior Court judge, because it violates election law. According to court documents, candidate statements should not "make reference to other candidates...

Opening statements delivered in Nguyen trial

Posted on August 25, 2010
Former congressional candidate Tan Nguyen faces a possible 40 years in prison if convicted on two counts of obstruction of justice, stemming from a controversial campaign letter sent to Latino voters during his run against Loretta Sanchez in 2006. The...

James Thoma joins Reed Smith in Los Angeles

Posted on August 25, 2010
Reed Smith has announced the addition of James Thoma to the firm?s growing Entertainment/Media Finance Team in the Corporate & Securities Group in Los Angeles. His practice will continue to focus on media fund formation, major investments in media companies...

Oxnard teen shooting trial stays in Ventura County, but jurors will be drawn from elsewhere

Posted on August 24, 2010
Superior Court Judge Charles Campbell has ordered that jurors in the Brandon McInerney trial be drawn from Santa Barbara County rather than Ventura County, agreeing with the defense's contention that intense press coverage threatened the 16-year-old's right to a fair...

Lesbian minister to be tried in Presbyterian court for performing same-sex marriages

Posted on August 24, 2010
Reverend Jane Adams Spahr, a lesbian minister who officiated at more than a dozen same-sex marriages during the brief period of gay marriage legality in California, will be tried Thursday in Presbyterian court for violating her denomination's constitution...

Hogan Lovell IP group joins DLA Piper in L.A.

Posted on August 24, 2010
DLA Piper has announced that it has added five partners from Hogan Lovells' intellectual property practice to its Los Angeles office. The group includes Richard de Bodo, a former IP practice leader at Hogan Lovells whose clients have included Dow...

Judge Turrentine, who served 40 years on the bench, dies

Posted on August 24, 2010
U.S. District Court Judge Howard Boyd Turrentine died of natural causes Friday at his home in Point Loma. He was 96. Born Jan. 22, 1914 in Escondido, Judge Turrentine graduated from the University of Southern California Law School in 1939...

SoCal Edison sued for alleged role in fire

Posted on August 24, 2010
Several cases against Southern California Edison regarding its alleged role in causing the 2007 Grass Valley Fire will be heard jointly by Superior Court Judge Janet Frangie in San Bernardino. The original suit, filed in 2008 on behalf of Craig...

Father-and-son hedge fund managers hit with suit

Posted on August 22, 2010
A lawsuit has been filed by angry investors in a pair of small hedge funds catering to Silicon Valley Indian professionals. The suit alleges that Vishwsas Godbole and his son Neil, who ran the funds, concocted a "systematic and organized...

Ex-high school football coach can proceed with suit against district

Posted on August 22, 2010
Football coach Marty Martin sued Clovis Unified School District two years ago in Fresno County Superior Court, claiming pressure from parents led to his firing after only one season with the Golden Eagles. Despite the efforts of the district to...

Kramer new IP partner at Quinn Emanuel

Posted on August 22, 2010
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has announced the addition of intellectual property attorney Karin Kramer as a partner in their Redwood City office. Most recently a partner with Howrey, Kramer has been a trial attorney for more than 30...

Comey leaves Shanghai, returns to Palo Alto

Posted on August 18, 2010
Morrison & Foerster announced today that corporate partner Chuck Comey has relocated from the firm?s Shanghai office to its Palo Alto office after 16 years in Asia. Mr. Comey will leverage his extensive experience in Asia in advising on cross-border....

Lying about military medals is not a crime, says 9th Circuit

Posted on August 18, 2010
Xavier Alvarez was elected in 2006 to the Three Valley Water District board in Pomona and, during a public meeting in 2007, introduced himself as a retired Marine who was once awarded the Medal of Honor. It not only turned...

Same-sex marriage to wait until December, says 9th Circuit

Posted on August 17, 2010
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided yesterday to put same-sex marriage on hold until at least December, when the court will hear the Proposition 8 challenge on an expedited basis and hold arguments. The three-judge panel also ordered...

Judge frees man serving life sentence under three-strikes law

Posted on August 17, 2010
Judge Peter Espinoza ordered the release yesterday of Gregory Taylor, a 48-year-old man who had been serving a life sentence for attempting to break into a church soup kitchen. Taylor had previously been committed two robberies to support a drug...

San Diego notches a win in transient occupancy tax fight

Posted on August 17, 2010
San Diego is one of several cities and government entities that have sued online travel companies claiming that the taxes they charge should be based on the retail price of the room and not on the wholesale price that hotels...

Five Seyfarth attorneys join Sheppard Mullin in L.A.

Posted on August 17, 2010
Five more labor and employment attorneys join Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP from Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Special counsel David Van Pelt and associates Jennifer Abramowitz, Laurie Barnes, Paul Berkowitz and Kate Visosky and class action clerk Erica Ibsen reunite...

Salas gets probation, community service for faking her own kidnapping

Posted on August 16, 2010
Nancy Salas, a 23-year-old resident of Glendale, disappeared on May 12 after telling family members she was going for a run. She did not reappear until the following day at Carpet One in Merced, when she claimed to have been...

Jury acquits former investigator of two charges, deadlocked on remainder

Posted on August 16, 2010
This past Friday Janet Virginia Strong was acquitted of two misdemeanor charges that she filed false reports. The jury agreed with Strong's defense attorney, Charles Goldwasser, when he argued that Strong had appropriately exercised her discretion when she checked a...

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