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No plea reinstatement for Samueli

Posted on September 28, 2009
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has refused to reinstate a plea deal between Henry Samueli, the co-founder of Broadcom Corp., and federal prosecutors who are pursuing criminal charges related to stock options backdating....

Proposed medical center prompts competition, traffic, other concerns

Posted on September 28, 2009
Donald Ecker, managing member and project leader of March Healthcare Development, has said Riverside County is in short supply of health care services, including hospital beds. He proposed a large-scale medical complex at March Air Reserve Base that would provide...

State's ethics enforcement agency says charges against Schwarzenegger will not be back

Posted on September 28, 2009
The Fair Political Practices Commission, in a letter earlier this month, told a lawyer for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that a complaint filed by the California Democratic Party four years ago in connection with a consulting contract he reached with a....

Chrysler to pay $24 million to Long Beach family in personal injury settlement

Posted on September 25, 2009
Richard Mraz, 38, was working as a longshoreman when the transmission of his Dodge pickup malfunctioned, shifting the vehicle into reverse. The truck knocked him down, inflicting a skull fracture. Mraz died 17 days later. In 2007, a Los Angeles...

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Lawyers to DirecTV: stop the surprise fees

Posted on September 25, 2009
Lawyers for California customers of The DirecTV Group Inc. filed a preliminary injunction motion on Sept. 21 in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking to stop the satellite television service from automatically withdrawing early cancellation fees from customer bank accounts and...

Students and civil rights groups come to the support of AB 540

Posted on September 25, 2009
Yesterday a coalition of 80 civil rights, student and community organizations representing Asian and Pacific Islander Americans today filed a legal brief with the California Supreme Court supporting a state law that allows undocumented students to pay in-state fees at...

MOVERS: Chang joins Axiom from Hogan Hartson, Cartwright rejoins Latham

Posted on September 23, 2009
Axiom, a new model professional services firm focused on the high-end legal market, announced last Thursday that David G. Chang has joined as Engagement Manager in their Los Angeles office. Prior to joining Axiom, Chang was an intellectual property litigator...

Former California Education Secretary nominated to Customs post by Obama administration

Posted on September 23, 2009
The White House announced yesterday the nomination of Alan Bersin to be the new commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the nation's largest law enforcement agency. Bersin, a veteran of federal border enforcement and a former San Diego schools...

Redding's Earl Murphy dies

Posted on September 23, 2009
Earl Murphy, Redding's city attorney throughout the 1960s and 1970s, died on September 14. He was 90 years old. Murphy helped create The Mall in downtown Redding and the Civic Auditorium. He worked with officials on the city's first comprehensive...

Trans World vs. Financial Systems Innovation: It's on, again

Posted on September 23, 2009
Trans World, who owns the f.y.e. chain of music and video stores, filed a federal lawsuit in Albany on Sept. 22 asking for a judgment it didn?t infringe on the patent for an electronic system to process credit card and...

Brown files suit against Chais

Posted on September 23, 2009
California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Beverly Hills financial advisor Stanley Chais, who allegedly steered hundreds of millions in investor dollars to Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme. Brown contends that from...

FEC and CREW marshall forces against O'Donnell

Posted on September 23, 2009
Not a week after Pierce O'Donnell's case goes to appeal, prosecutorial support arrives. In a brief filed on Sept. 23 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, the Federal Election Commission called a trial judge's ruling throwing...

MOVERS: SoCal Bingham gains Proskauer vet Silbergeld

Posted on September 23, 2009
Arthur F. Silbergeld, a former partner in the Los Angeles office of New York's Proskauer Rose, has moved to Bingham McCutcheon. Silbergeld worked at Proskauer for 10 years.Bingham's Southern California offices have attracted other prominent attorneys in recent months...

Emissions suit reinstated against utilities

Posted on September 22, 2009
A U.S. Appeals Court reinstated on Monday a 2004 lawsuit by eight states, including California, and the city of New York against five of the largest U.S. utilities over their carbon dioxide emissions. The lawsuit, originally dismissed by U.S. District...

Questions of causation and politics plague global warming suits

Posted on September 22, 2009
At Anderson Kill's 12th Annual Policyholder Advisor Conference, a panel discussed the hurdles involved in bringing global warming suits against companies. But they said one case worth watching is Native Village of Kivalina v. Exxon Mobil, et al., in which...

MOVERS: Grunfeld joins Kaye Scholer

Posted on September 22, 2009
Kaye Scholer LLP announced yesterday that Dan Grunfeld, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the office of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, has joined Kaye Scholer as Co-Chair of the Los Angeles Litigation Department, effective November 2. Areas of...

MOVERS: Deitsch elected to Public Law chair

Posted on September 22, 2009
Stephen P. Deitsch, a Best Best & Krieger attorney who serves as city attorney for four California cities, was elected this month to chair the Public Law Section of the State Bar of California. Deitsch, a BB&K partner who specializes...

Loan modification crackdown continues with unveiling of alleged attorney offenders

Posted on September 22, 2009
In an unusual move, the State Bar of California identified 16 Southern California attorneys who are under investigation for loan modification misconduct. Interim Chief Trial Counsel Russell Weiner said in the release that the seriousness of the issue warranted releasing...

Federal judge argues futility of sealing Toyota suit

Posted on September 22, 2009
U.S. District Judge George H. King has refused to seal a wrongful termination suit in which a former in-house attorney for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. has asserted that the auto manufacturer hid and destroyed evidence in numerous rollover lawsuits....

MOVERS: Katten Muchin's Kim new president of Women Lawyers LA

Posted on September 22, 2009
Attorney Helen B. Kim, a securities litigation partner in Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP?s Los Angeles and New York offices, is the new president of the Women Lawyers of Los Angeles. She assumes the WLALA presidency less than a year after...

City of Fullerton and Orange County at odds over using funds to redevelop "blighted" areas

Posted on September 17, 2009
The city of Fullerton wanted to use tax increment funds to revitalize 1,165 acres in the southwest and southeast sections with public improvements, affordable housing funds and small business loans. But the county and Friends for Fullerton's Future, a local...

New DNA-for-freedom plan under fire in OC

Posted on September 17, 2009
Orange County has begun an "informal" program, according to district attorney Tony Rackauckas, in which people who have been arrested are offered a deal: offer up some DNA and get your charges dropped. The plan became public when Rackauckas sought...

MOVERS: Buchalter Nemer continues to grow in Orange County, San Francisco and Scottsdale

Posted on September 16, 2009
Three new attorneys have joined Buchalter Nemer as Shareholders. LeslieAnn Haacke and Glenn P. Zwang joined the firm?s Litigation Practice Group in its and San Francisco offices, respectively. Kambiz Izadi joined the firm?s Business Practices Group in its Orange County...

Small Silicon Valley IP firms making strides

Posted on September 16, 2009
Two former Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges senior associates, Douglas Colt and Thomas Wallerstein, launched their own practice last week. Colt and Wallerstein said that they weren't laid off from Quinn Emanuel, although that firm too has conducted layoffs,...

A "conduit" by any other name: O'Donnell case goes to appeal

Posted on September 16, 2009
Federal prosecutors argued in a brief filed on Monday before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Pierce O'Donnell did violate the Federal Election Campaign Act by contributing $26,000 to a presidential candidate in the names of 13 other...

Immigrant holding center suit settled

Posted on September 16, 2009
Civil rights groups announced today that a lawsuit against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over "barbaric" conditions at the basement holding center known as B-18 has been settled. The ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center and a private law...

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot - but whose is it?

Posted on September 15, 2009
Three years ago New York-based developer Joseph Moinian bought four acres of land across the street from Staples Center for $80 million, intending a project including two towers of 53 and 37 stories, 860 market-rate units, a 222 room hotel...

A journey from teacher to bankruptcy attorney

Posted on September 14, 2009
Business is bad for everybody lately - which means business is booming for Amy Goldman, the co-chair of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency department for the law firm Lewis Brisbois in Los Angeles. A profile in last Friday's Los Angeles Downtown...

New women's legal association formed

Posted on September 14, 2009
Laura Crane, a real estate attorney based in the Ontario office of Best Best & Krieger, has founded the Inland Empire Legal Association of Women. The group will hold a 7 p.m. Sept. 19 gathering at a private residence in...

Four class action suits threaten RV maker

Posted on September 14, 2009
At least four class action suits have been prepared against former executives of Riverside-based Fleetwood Enterprises alleging violations of the Securities Exchange Act by issuing false and misleading statements about the company's financial condition between Dec...

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