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Obama administration defends, and objects to, DOMA in Orange County case

Posted on August 18, 2009
Yesterday the Obama administration made its objection to the Defense of Marriage Act abundantly clear -- even as the Justice Department finds itself defending DOMA in an case brought by an Orange County gay couple. Assistant Attorney General Tony West...

Former Nuggets star's business manager in misappropriation suit

Posted on August 18, 2009
A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, California, yesterday alleges that Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony's former business manager misappropriated more than $2 million of the player's assets. Larry Harmon and employees of Larry Harmon & Associates are...

Arsonist needs treatment before sentencing, defense attorney charges

Posted on August 17, 2009
Attorney Susan Dondershine, the defense lawyer for a man convicted of arson in 2007, charges in a strongly worded pleading to the U.S. District Court that her client is suffering from severe mental health issues in Santa Clara County Main...

Appeals decision defines requirements for Sarbanes Oxley whistleblower cases

Posted on August 17, 2009
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Thursday that whistleblowers must show only that they called attention to what they believed was fraud in order to sue their employers for wrongful termination under the Sarbanes Oxley Act. The...

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Former U.S. attorney nominated to police commission

Posted on August 17, 2009
Last Thursday Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa nominated a former U.S. attorney to serve on the police commission and help choose the next chief. Debra Wong Yang, 49, who served as the nation's first Asian-American U.S. attorney from 2002-07, was nominated to...

USC student stabbing death trial begins today

Posted on August 17, 2009
The trial of Travion Ford, a 24-year-old man charged with murdering Bryan Frost, a University of Southern California student from Idaho, is expected to begin today in Los Angeles Superior Court. Ford pleaded not guilty during a Sept. 26 arraignment...

Loan modification sinks two Southern California lawyers, with a third in the wings

Posted on August 13, 2009
The State Bar announced yesterday that it has obtained the resignations of Christian Dillon of Dana Point and Nabile Anz of Irvine, and that charges have been filed against Christopher Diener of Irvine. All were accused of loan modification activities...

Kaleidescape victory overturned in another victory against DVD copying

Posted on August 13, 2009
Right on the heels of the victory against Real and its DVD-copying technology, California's 6th District Court of Appeal threw out a trial court win for Sunnyvale's Kaleidescape yesterday. Kaleidescape also makes high-end home entertainment systems that allow people to...

Lisker's freedom still in limbo, but at least he's out of jail

Posted on August 13, 2009
Bruce Lisker may be out of jail, but the question of just how free he remains has yet to be answered. Though he is no longer in prison, Lisker is not a free man. He must be in federal court...

San Fernando Valley man freed from life sentence

Posted on August 12, 2009
Bruce Lisker has been serving a life sentence for the March 1983 stabbing and beating death of his 66-year-old mother, Dorka, at her Sherman Oaks home. U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips in Riverside overturned his conviction Friday, concurring with...

SDG&E shutoff plan denied, save for a possible experimental season

Posted on August 12, 2009
Administrative Law Judge Timothy Kenney recommended yesterday that the five-member California Public Utilities Commission reject San Diego Gas & Electric Co.'s controversial proposal to cut power to as many as 130,000 residents of rural San Diego County during Santa Ana...

White-collar practices on the rise in LA

Posted on August 12, 2009
White-collar defense practice groups have gotten some serious bolstering in recent weeks. It was announced this week that Thomas O'Brien, the sitting U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, would join Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in the fall...

Digital piracy no longer a Real possibility

Posted on August 12, 2009
Hollywood studios scored a crucial win in the war against digital piracy on Tuesday when U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel issued a pretrial junction on RealNetworks, preventing it from either selling the DVD-copying technology known as RealDVD or licensing...

Pepperdine conservative scholar named new ambassador

Posted on August 11, 2009
Unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 7th, Douglas W. Kmiec is the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Malta. He will be on leave from Pepperdine University as the Caruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law during his...

Prop 8 suit still has supporters on different pages

Posted on August 10, 2009
The Recorder reported a couple weeks back about the clash between attorneys and civil rights groups in the federal challenge of Proposition 8. That clash seems to continue to heat up. Now that a trial is nearing, the lawyers who...

Northwestern Law gets 19-year-old Irvine student

Posted on August 10, 2009
Kate McLaughlin, who turned 19 last week, skipped six grades, enrolled in community college at age 12 and graduated from UC San Diego at 17. Now she's headed to Northwestern University this fall for law school. According to the OC...

New Obama appointees reflect heretofore underrepresented communities

Posted on August 10, 2009
President Obama has named four new federal judges for California, three of them Asian Americans, who have long been underrepresented on the federal bench. The president named U.S. Magistrate Judges Edward M. Chen and Richard G. Seeborg to the Northern...

The potential chilling effects of tolling provisions at issue in Supreme Court review

Posted on August 07, 2009
The question of what constitutes a stay in court proceedings has been taken up by the California Supreme Court in the form of a March 23 ruling by Los Angeles' 2nd District Court of Appeal. That ruling, a 2-1 decision,...

Suit against Pasadena hospital alleges understaffing and no overtime

Posted on August 07, 2009
Former employees of Aurora Las Encinas Hospital, a private psychiatric facility in Pasadena, filed a class-action lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court yesterday alleging that chronic understaffing has forced the staff to work past the ends of their shifts,...

MOVERS AND HONORS: Ogletree, Horvitz, and Sedgwick

Posted on August 07, 2009
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. has announced that Stuart D. Tochner has joined its Los Angeles office as a shareholder. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Tochner was a labor and employment partner at Musick Peeler in Los...

Web site copyright infringement suit allowed

Posted on August 06, 2009
Brayton Purcell, a Novato-based personal injury firm, was handed a victory against two-lawyer San Diego-based Recordon & Recordon yesterday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an Internet copyright infringement case. Brayton Purcell, a 50-lawyer personal injury and...

Western State accredited

Posted on August 06, 2009
The American Bar Association has granted Western State University College of Law full accreditation, giving the state 19 fully accredited law schools. The school first won provisional accreditation from the ABA in 1998, but did not secure full approval within...

Former Warner Bros. GC to head new program at USC

Posted on August 06, 2009
John Schulman, who retired from his post as general counsel of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. last year, has joined the University of Southern California Gould School of Law to open and run a new entertainment law program. Schulman joined USC...

State ordered to reduce prison popluation

Posted on August 05, 2009
A panel of three federal judges on Tuesday ordered California to reduce its prison population by 40,000 inmates over the next two years. The order cited Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's own words when he proclaimed a state of emergency in the...

Taser lawsuit settled in Santa Paula

Posted on August 05, 2009
The city of Santa Paula agreed to pay Andrew S. Hernandez $250,000 to settle a lawsuit he filed in federal court in Los Angeles. The lawsuit alleges that in 2006 he was forcibly taken to the ground by Santa Paula...

Chemerinsky, Nelson newest members of ABA economic commission

Posted on August 05, 2009
The American Bar Association yesterday announced that Los Angeles attorney Matthew Nelson and Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Irvine?s law school, have joined the group?s newly-created Commission on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Profession and Legal Needs...

Press wants Krugel transcripts unsealed

Posted on August 05, 2009
The Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times, along with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, filed a motion Tuesday challenging a federal judge's decision to seal court transcripts from a recent civil trial in Los Angeles involving...

Carrion police shooting settled for $1.5 million

Posted on August 05, 2009
San Bernardino County has tentatively agreed to pay $1.5 million to Elio Carrion, a U.S. Air Force serviceman who was unarmed when a sheriff's deputy shot him following a high-speed chase three years ago. If approved by the county Board...

Redlands courthouse to shutter

Posted on August 05, 2009
On July 7, the San Bernardino County Superior Court announced that it would reduce the hours at two other courthouses in Big Bear and Needles beginning on September 8. They have now announced that its courthouse in Redlands will close...

Suit against LAPD dismissed

Posted on August 04, 2009
A judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed by the mother of a toddler killed by a SWAT officer's bullet during an attempted hostage rescue in 2005. L.A. County Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu granted the city's motion...

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