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Acquittals and guilty pleas in Ralphs record falsifying case

Posted on June 25, 2009
A former vice president of the parent company of Ralphs supermarkets and two ex-employees of the chain were acquitted Monday in Los Angeles federal court of conspiring to secretly hire locked-out union workers and falsify records during a grocery strike...

Decision helps with Rocky's revival

Posted on June 25, 2009
L.A. County Superior Court Judge Mark V. Mooney ruled this week that former Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick lacked legal authority to conduct performance audits of programs managed by City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo, ending a yearlong power struggle...

CA Carbon fees considered

Posted on June 25, 2009
Attorney General Jerry Brown gets a car case dismissed, but global warming takes front and center yet again in California. Air regulators today will consider leveling the nation's first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and other industries as...

Sprint hopes group suit rejection is a Pre-cursor to more decisions in its favor

Posted on June 25, 2009
Sprint Nextel Corp. won't face a nationwide class-action lawsuit over claims it overcharged data-card customers for taxes and refused to issue refunds. U.S. Judge Robert Bryan concluded Sprint customers couldn?t show that being allowed to press claims about wireless-network card...

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9th Circuit and AG rescue the car, not the frog

Posted on June 25, 2009
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has granted California Attorney General Jerry Brown's motion to voluntarily dismiss the state's global warming lawsuit against six of the nation's largest automobile manufacturers. The June 24 order put an end...

Engineer's space secrets trial winds down in Calif.

Posted on June 24, 2009
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ? The fate of a Chinese-born engineer accused of stealing trade secrets critical to the U.S. space program will soon be in the hands of a federal judge. Attorneys are expected to deliver closing arguments Wednesday...

Developer faces fraud charges

Posted on June 23, 2009
From the LA. Times: An El Monte developer behind the city's $1.2-billion redevelopment project has been arrested and is expected to be charged with fraud and embezzlement, police said Monday. John Leung, president and chief executive of El Monte-based Titan...

L.A. Sheriff's dept. halts DNA testing for rape cases

Posted on June 23, 2009
The L.A. Times reports that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has suspended its faltering effort to analyze DNA evidence from thousands of rape and sexual assault cases, due to budget and staffing shortfalls. Sheriff's Department officials said they expected...

Three former Ralphs managers acquitted of charges in labor dispute

Posted on June 22, 2009
A former vice president of the parent company of Ralphs supermarkets, and two ex-employees of the chain were acquitted today in Los Angeles federal court of conspiring to secretly hire locked-out union workers and falsify records during a grocery strike,...

City's inspector general wants indepenence from PD

Posted on June 19, 2009
The Daily Journal turns its spotlight today on Andr� Birotte Jr., inspector general of the Los Angeles Police Department. The Justice Department and the city have asked U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess to release the city from a consent...

Fired assistant O.C. sheriff wins back pay

Posted on June 19, 2009
Orange County is on the hook for $485,000 to George Jaramillo, a former assistant sheriff whom Carona fired in 2004, according to the Orange County Register. Plus attorney fees. Judge Andrew P. Banks ruled that Carona broke the law in...

Obama's FCC pick gets a grilling

Posted on June 17, 2009
Variety reports that senators on the Commerce Committee on Tuesday closely questioned Julius Genachowski, President Barack Obama's choice to become head of the Federal Commission. Genachowski is set to take over an FCC that's been blasted for policy fumbles by...

Feds sink suit against L.A., Long Beach ports

Posted on June 17, 2009
The agency that regulates ports has dropped a lawsuit that challenges portions of the "clean trucks program" at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. Here's the Associated Press story via the San Jose Mercury News.

City wants LAPD consent decree lifted

Posted on June 17, 2009
The L.A. Times reports that the city wants the feds to lift a nine-year-old consent decree that gives the Justice Department oversight powers over the Los Angles Police Department. Attorneys for the city of Los Angeles and the U.S. Department...

Owner of LA signature-gathering firm admits fraud

Posted on June 17, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Authorities say the owner of a firm that collects signatures for petition drives has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor voter registration fraud in exchange for prosecutors dropping felony charges. Mark Jacoby, the 26-year-old owner of Young Political...

Hearing set for lawyer accused of extorting Dole

Posted on June 17, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A lawyer accused of taking part in a scheme to extort Dole food company for billions of dollars is under orders to appear at a contempt hearing Wednesday. Juan Dominguez is accused of bringing fraudulent claims...

Decision on letting LAPD oversee itself delayed

Posted on June 16, 2009
In 2007, U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess, who oversees the department's reforms, angrily rejected the idea that the LAPD was ready to police itself and added three more years to the life of the so-called consent decree. Now, with...

Nuch reveals more of his transition team

Posted on June 16, 2009
Los Angeles City Attorney-elect Carmen Trutanich yesterday unveiled the members of his transition team whom he has organized into 12 working groups to focus on areas he had slated for reform during his campaign. That team includes: Assistant District Attorney...

Controversial Gunther ADA decision overturned

Posted on June 15, 2009
The California Supreme Court overturned a Santa Ana-based Court of Appeal decision that required plaintiffs in Americans with Disabilities Act-type cases to prove that businesses purposely violated the law by not making their facilities usable by wheelchair-bound customers...

Parts of new Chinese filtering software alleged to be stolen

Posted on June 15, 2009
Solid Oak Software of Santa Barbara said Friday that parts of its filtering software, which is designed for parents, are being used in the "Green Dam-Youth Escort" filtering software that must be packaged with all computers sold in China from...

Governor's inmate plan draws fire

Posted on June 15, 2009
Governor Schwarzenegger wants to change sentencing guidelines so that offenders who commit such low-level felonies as auto theft or drug possession could be charged with only misdemeanors -- allowing them to serve sentences in county jails instead of state prisons...

Leave taxes alone, say prominent LA sheriff and prosecutor

Posted on June 15, 2009
Lee Baca, sheriff of Los Angeles County, joined with police officers to ask state legislators to refrain from using property taxes to balance the state's 24-billion-dollar budget. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he may borrow local property and gas tax...

Corpse seller sentenced

Posted on June 12, 2009
Ernest Nelson, the former mortuary worker convicted in a $1.5 million cadaver carve-and-sell scheme, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison Thursday and ordered to pay more than $1.7 million. "This is one of those cases so outrageous it...

Cop claims disability discrimination, may result in jury trial

Posted on June 12, 2009
Travis Henry, who worked for the Lompoc Police Department between Oct. 1, 2005, and Aug. 23, 2006, filed a lawsuit in Santa Barbara County Superior Court in 2007 alleging harassment, discrimination based on his disability, retaliation, failure to accommodate, improper...

First rule of arbitration: show up

Posted on June 12, 2009
Last month a Los Angeles Superior Court judge affirmed an arbitration award of more than $4.1 billion to Paul Thomas Chester, a former executive at iFreedom Communications Inc. Chester brought wrongful termination suit against his former employer, its affiliated businesses...

Hal can't help it

Posted on June 12, 2009
Harold Goldstein, 64, of Newport Beach, posted an ad on Craigslist claiming to be a retired attorney looking for lawyers to do contract work. When someone responded, Goldstein asked for the attorney's letterhead and business cards, federal authorities said...

Buzzkill: Marijuana dispensary owner finally sentenced

Posted on June 12, 2009
After nearly a two-month delay, Judge George H. Wu sentenced Charles C. Lynch, who ran a marijuana dispensary in Morro, to a year in prison, a sign that providers of medical marijuana still face the possibility of jail time despite...

?Loncheros? prevail against city

Posted on June 11, 2009
Francisco Gonzalez, operator of a mobile catering vehicle in East Los Angeles for more than 12 years, wanted to challenge the thousands of dollars in citations he received during the past year under a city ordinance aimed at cracking down...

Several rulings resolve church property disputes

Posted on June 11, 2009
On June 9, the San Diego-based Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled unanimously that the Diocese of Los Angeles is legal owner of property currently occupied by St. Luke's Anglican Church. The appellate court ruling affirmed a 2007 trial court...

Informational privacy ruling may be back in Obama's court

Posted on June 11, 2009
The federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists will not be forced to choose between losing their jobs and consenting to secret government investigations of their medical, financial and sexual histories. Led by Senior Research...

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