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L.A. area lawyer and former Associate Justice among newly appointed commissioners
Posted on August 31, 2009Mayor Villaraigosa has announced the appointment of 11 new commissioners. Included in the appointments are Armand Arabian, the former Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court and superior Court judge, and lawyer Yolanda Orozco. Justice Armand Arabian received his J...
Settlement reached in Broadcom second-largest in derivative action
Posted on August 31, 2009Broadcom Corp. has agreed to pay $118 million to settle allegations of stock options backdating, in one of the largest such deals in a derivative action to date. The proposed settlement, subject to approval by U.S. District Judge Manuel Real...
Masry & Vititoe bankruptcy numbers numbers at leat four lawyers and law firms among top creditors
Posted on August 28, 2009Masry & Vititoe, the personal injury law firm of Erin Brockovich fame, said in bankruptcy court papers that it has spent $3 million defending lawsuits filed by the family and estate of former name partner Edward Masry, who died in...
Imminent closure of Stark makes some hopeful about future of youth correction
Posted on August 28, 2009The Heman G. Stark Correctional Facility in Chino will soon shut its doors to juvenile offenders in a move to shift a system away from adult-style punishment for youthful offenders. Stark now houses 390 men, including 32 from Northern California,...
Countrywide settles class action retirement suit
Posted on August 28, 2009U.S. District Judge John Walter of the Central District of California has preliminarily approved a $55 million settlement between Countrywide Financial Corp. and its former employees, who were seeking compensation for losses to their retirement plans...
Judge dismisses shareholder action against Downey
Posted on August 27, 2009U.S. District Judge John Walter of the Central District of California has dismissed a shareholder class action against the former officers and directors of Downey Financial Corp., a mortgage lender that filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in November. Downey Financial,...
Opening statements made yesterday in entertainment "bribes-for-contracts" trial
Posted on August 27, 2009The Associated Press reports that opening statements were delivered in the first case to charge entertainment industry figures under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Jonathan Lopez, a senior trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, told the seven man-five...
Judge's environmental report ruling gums up high-speed rail project
Posted on August 27, 2009Judge Michael Kenny called into question the environmental report backing a controversial high-speed rail project yesterday, calling it "inadequate" because it failed to address Union Pacific's recent announcement that it would not allow the speedy trains to run along its...
Drug bust ensnares San Bernardino locals
Posted on August 27, 2009Among the 16 suspected drug runners indicted by the Imperial County Grand Jury yesterday are two San Bernardino County residents, Lorena Lara of Fontana and Juan Berumen Sandoval of Rialto. All have been charged with conspiracy to transport cocaine and...
Exclusion policy needs explaining, says appeals panel
Posted on August 26, 2009A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reconsider the application for sentence reduction from Jerry Crickon, a federal prisoner in a Long Beach halfway house due for release in...
Bond sales cost Californians over $1 billion
Posted on August 26, 2009In 2006, the Compton Unified School District refinanced $50.8 million in taxpayer- approved bonds, with an eye to save the district money. Officials took out $6.5 million in cash, which they said would be used for school construction and repairs....
Appointment of openly gay assistant police chief in Riverside County a sign of changing times
Posted on August 26, 2009Raymond Gregory began working for the Sheriff's Department in Blythe in 1990. When he moved to the Coachella Valley eight years later and volunteered for the sheriff's association in Riverside, he also decided to live his life publicly as a...
Liver transplant still on hold for Sellers
Posted on August 26, 2009Ronald "Joey" Sellers, who petitioned the government for a life-saving liver transplant, has found his request on hold yet again. U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson said at a hearing yesterday morning that the government could pay for an operation but...
MOVERS: Jeffrey Morgan joins Moiré Marketing
Posted on August 26, 2009Legal marketing pioneer Jeffrey Morgan has joined Moiré Marketing Partners as a principal and head of the firm's new West Coast operations. Prior to joining Moiré, Morgan was senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Best Lawyers in America,...
Retrial of smoking case nets plaintiff half of original damages
Posted on August 25, 2009A Los Angeles jury awarded $13.8 million in punitive damages against Philip Morris USA on Aug. 24 in the retrial of a case that originally netted a record $28 billion to a lifetime smoker. The smoker, Betty Bullock, who was...
Lawyer indicted on charges of bribery and obstruction of justice
Posted on August 25, 2009Alfred N. Villalobos, a California lawyer who allegedly agreed to accept more than $100,000 in bribes in exchange for coaching his client to lie to a grand jury investigating immigration fraud, has been indicted on obstruction of justice charges. Federal...
Cal Supremes unanimous in clarifying attorney fees rule
Posted on August 25, 2009The California Supreme Court affirmed the Fourth District Court of Appeal's unpublished 2007 ruling that a woman in a 2003 car accident needed to be ?made whole? as to all damages, but that her attorney fees in securing compensation from...
Art recovery statute ruled "too broad"
Posted on August 24, 2009The 9th Circuit ruled last week that a 2002 statute allowing Californians to recover art stolen by Nazis is unconstitutional and goes beyond providing redress. According to circuit Judge David R. Thompson, the law's language "suggests that California's real purpose...
First graduating class of Chapman prosecutors includes two deputy district attorneys
Posted on August 24, 2009Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo announced that Deputy District Attorney Pamela L. Ham and Deputy District Attorney Carol Reed received masters of law in prosecutorial science degrees from Chapman University School of Law. Ham received her undergraduate degree at...
Cooley still doing deals
Posted on August 24, 2009Craig Jacoby, a partner in the San Francisco office of Cooley Godward Kronish, led a team of Cooley lawyers representing SpringSource in its $420 million sale to software virtualization company VMware Inc., announced Aug. 10. San Mateo's SpringSource is a...
Taggers hanging out can be arrested under new "Nuch" proposal
Posted on August 24, 2009Los Angeles City Attorney's Carmen Trutanich latest idea is raising some sticky constitutional issues. In an interview, Trutanich said his staff has begun amassing street-level intelligence and reviewing legal strategies that would pave the way for a series of injunctions...
MOVERS: New IP partner at K&L Gates in Palo Alto
Posted on August 20, 2009K&L Gates LLP announced yesterday the addition of Charles D. Holland to the firm?s Palo Alto office as a partner in the intellectual property practice. Holland joins K&L Gates from Morrison & Foerster LLP. A patent lawyer and engineer who...
MOVERS: Sheppard Mullin gains healthcare expert Yood
Posted on August 20, 2009Kenneth Yood has joined the Los Angeles/Century City office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner on the firm's Healthcare team and in the Corporate practice group. Yood joins Sheppard Mullin from Fulbright & Jaworski in Los...
Governor's prison plan includes 11th-hour commission addition
Posted on August 20, 2009Governor Schwarzenegger's plan to reduce costs by trimming California's prison population by nearly 30,000 inmates will get its first airing today before the state Legislature. If approved by the Senate and Assembly, the governor's proposal would release or divert from...
Nurse Connection head charged with insurance fraud
Posted on August 20, 2009Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said yesterday that Joseph Baiden surrendered to the Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday. Baiden is accused of falsifying payroll figures at his medical staffing business, Nurse Connection Inc., between 2001 and 2007 to underpay the...
Samueli wants closed hearing for appeal
Posted on August 19, 2009Say what you will about him, Henry Samueli won't give up the fight. He's not only appealing Judge Carney's rejection of his plea deal, but he also wants that hearing to be closed to the public. Through his lawyers, Samueli...
Activists aim to change towing and impound policies in CA
Posted on August 19, 2009The ACLU, Latin American Alliance for Immigrant Rights, and other advocates for undocumented immigrants are scheduled to meet with new Police Chief George Gascon in San Francisco to discuss the trend of city residents having their cars impounded by police...
Liver transplant request being shot down by feds
Posted on August 19, 2009Ronald "Joey" Sellers is charged with racketeering for crimes allegedly committed as head of the white supremacist Aryan Warriors gang. He is being held at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island in Southern California. His lawyers are making a...
Governor signs 'Good Samaritan Bill' and others into law
Posted on August 18, 2009Among the 131 of the 140 pieces of legislation that Governor Schwarzenegger signed after being put on hold pending budget negotiations, two have emerged that affect personal injury lawsuits. The first, Assembly Bill 83 (otherwise known as the "Good Samaritan...
UC not quite united in its endorsement of Google books deal
Posted on August 18, 2009The University of California has long been considered one of Google's first and closest allies in the company's book-digitizing plan, but a letter to the court suggests there may be dissension in the ranks. A group of prominent UC faculty...
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Did I harass someone?
Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...
How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...
I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
This has happened 3 or 4 times a month now- they have turned the electric off 2 days consecutively, the water off about 9 or 10 times now, and our heat has broken 5 times (once it would not shut off, and we were forced t
i say stick with the apartment. eventually, everything possible will be replaced...
The company I worked for forced me to quit instead of dealing with someone harassing me, what can I do?
Look up CONSTRUCTIVE DISCHARGE...................this looks like what happened t...
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