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City council committee may no longer bogart the loophole

Posted on June 02, 2009
Two years ago, the Los Angeles City Council approved a temporary moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries. The purpose of the interim ordinance, which will expire on Sept. 14, was to give city leaders time to draft regulations that limit...

Davis death sentence upheld, but faces years of appeals

Posted on June 02, 2009
The California Supreme Court yesterday upheld Richard Allen Davis' death sentence for the 1993 kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, ending the first step in an appeals process that likely has a decade or more left to go. The...

Firm collaboration yields new child care center in LA

Posted on June 02, 2009
On June 1, Munger, Tolles & Olson and O?Melveny & Myers, along with investment firm Oaktree Capital Management, started work preparing a new joint child care and early education center in downtown Los Angeles. Operated by Bright Horizons Family Solutions,...

MGA says pre-appeal transfer of Bratz worst case scenario

Posted on May 27, 2009
MGA Entertainment Inc. asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to halt the transfer of its Bratz dolls to Mattel Inc. while it appeals a judge's ruling. In an emergency motion, MGA contends a court order to hand over trade...

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Perata kickback investigation ends

Posted on May 27, 2009
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday declined to file corruption charges against former state Senate leader Don Perata, clearing the way for his campaign for Oakland mayor next year. The U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento announced its decision 2 1/2 months after...

Infiltrated Mongols motorcycle gang hit with racketeering indictment

Posted on May 27, 2009
A number of Mongol motorcycle gang members have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an indictment that accused them of drug trafficking, murder and other offenses. In October, law enforcement agents served more than 100 arrest warrants in six states...

Embattled former Countrywide CEO still has cards to play

Posted on May 27, 2009
According to prosecutors and legal experts, the sheer volume and complexity of the cases against Angelo Mozilo, the former Countrywide CEO, open opportunities for shrewd legal maneuvering. He could use the federal and state courts against each other to stall...

Governator's budget plan eliminates billions from state programs

Posted on May 27, 2009
Faced with a ballooning deficit and a clear signal that voters won't pay more to fix it, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a budget plan Tuesday that would eliminate welfare, drop 1 million poor children from health insurance, cut off...

Prop 8 supporters and opponents prepare for ongoing battle

Posted on May 27, 2009
Less than 90 minutes after the California Supreme Court released its ruling on Proposition 8, both sides had already e-mailed supporters soliciting funds anticipating a new ballot measure on gay marriage that could reach voters in 2010. Gay leaders say...

Credit rater monopoly status questioned in pending suit

Posted on May 26, 2009
Ron Grassi, who had retired five years ago after a 35-year career as a trial lawyer, is back in the game. setting up a war room in his Tahoe City home to single-handedly take on Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors...

Two choices to relieve overcrowding: redistribute or release

Posted on May 26, 2009
Local officials have vowed to fight a proposal by the governor to shift 23,000 state prisoners to overcrowded local jails during the next three years, in order to cut $1 billion from the state budget. The governor wants to slow...

Hate crime status unlikely for Your Black Muslim Bakery slayings

Posted on May 26, 2009
The July 2007 slaying of Michael Wills, in which two members of Your Black Muslim Bakery have been charged, was tinged with racial overtones, yet those men aren't charged with a hate crime. Experts say hate-crime cases are particularly difficult...

Prop 8 decision expected today

Posted on May 26, 2009
The clock is ticking on the state Supreme Court's official ruling on Proposition 8. The decision is expected to post to the Court's web site at 10 A.M. Pacific time. In the days after the passage of Proposition 8, three...

Sotomayor Obama's pick for Souter's replacement

Posted on May 26, 2009
President Barack Obama, speaking at the White House, said he is nominating Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Sotomayor, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, would become the...

Supreme Court revisits Hamlet in decision to uphold Prop 8: "We shall have no more marriages ... the rest shall keep as they are"

Posted on May 26, 2009
The California Supreme Court today upheld Proposition 8, the voter-approved law restoring a ban on same-sex marriages in the state, but at the same time left intact the more than 18,000 marriages for gay and lesbian couples who wed last...

SoCal residents charged with defrauding Medi-Cal

Posted on May 22, 2009
Twenty-five Southern California residents were charged Thursday with seeking payment from the state for providing in-home care to clients who were, in fact, dead, hospitalized or in jail, according to prosecutors. The charges, involving $93,053 in fraudulent claims, were filed...

Federal and local agencies achieve massive 'Hate Gang' takedown

Posted on May 22, 2009
Five indictments charged a total of 147 members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, and federal and local agencies had arrested 63 people in a sweep early Thursday. According to the indictments, the Latino street gang waged a...

Ticketmaster finds it hard to be a saint in New Jersey, moves for venue change

Posted on May 22, 2009
In recent months, 10 putative class-action suits have been filed in federal courts in six states over Ticketmaster's alleged practice of redirecting online shoppers for concert tickets to the Web site of a subsidiary, TicketsNow, that sells them at a...

Rumor mill yields Wilson Sonsini CEO as ambassador to Japan

Posted on May 22, 2009
According to various published reports in the Japanese media, the head of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati has been chosen as the U.S. ambassador to that country. John Roos has been Wilson, Sonsini's CEO since 2005 and has been a...

Delta smelt controversy spawns a new lawsuit

Posted on May 22, 2009
The Pacific Legal Foundation, a Sacrament-based conservative legal organization, filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of three San Joaquin Valley farming operations, claiming that the federal government has no constitutional authority to oversee the endangered smelt...

Schiavone development case resurfaces

Posted on May 20, 2009
The city of Riverside spent $132,826 in public money in 2007 and 2008 defending and settling an environmental group's legal challenge to a subdivision being developed by Riverside City Councilman Frank Schiavone. The group, Friends of Riverside's Hills, sued the...

Closures and furloughs on the docket for LA Superior Court

Posted on May 20, 2009
Facing a $90 million shortfall in the upcoming year, the Los Angeles Superior Court will close most courthouses' doors and furlough employees once a month starting July 15, according to Court leaders who made the announcement yesterday. Courts would close...

Hasta la vista, Resident Evil: Governator and AG want violent videogame ban reinstated

Posted on May 20, 2009
Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown will appeal the US Supreme Court to reinstate a law banning the sale and rental of violent video games to minors. A federal appeals court struck down the law in February claiming it...

WilmerHale welcomes David Marcus to the LA office

Posted on May 19, 2009
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP has announced that David C. Marcus has joined the firm?s Los Angeles office as a partner. He will be a member of the firm?s Litigation/Controversy Department and its complex commercial and intellectual property...

Connolly Bove adds former White & Case partner to LA office

Posted on May 19, 2009
Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP announced the addition of Glenn W. Trost to its Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property Group. Glenn Trost focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation, acting as lead counsel...

Grant for environmental law clinic goes to UC Irvine

Posted on May 19, 2009
The University of California, Irvine School of Law has received a $2 million grant to start an Environmental Law Clinic, the first of several legal clinics envisioned for the new law school. An anonymous foundation of global reach has provided...

LA deputy DA files suit against county on behalf of military reservists

Posted on May 19, 2009
In a class-action lawsuit filed May 4, Los Angeles County deputy district attorney Anthony Colannino contends that the county and its district attorney, Steve Cooley, are not giving reservists like himself all the compensation to which they are entitled because...

Class actions get more room to maneuver under Prop 64

Posted on May 19, 2009
The California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that class actions over alleged fraud can go forward, even if it's impossible to tell whether every plaintiff was harmed by deceptive ads. The ruling is important because it clarifies that Proposition 64, passed...

Circumventing evidence via Blackberry, but for how long?

Posted on May 18, 2009
Here's yet another episode in the ongoing saga of Public vs. Private in the Electronic Age: San Bernardino County officials hired counsel John Hueston of Irell & Manella to investigate allegations of time-card fraud and other problems in the county...

Civil suit reveals widespread abuse in Monterey diocese

Posted on May 18, 2009
Next month the Diocese of Monterey faces a lawsuit alleging that a migrant who served as an altar boy in Salinas and Arizona was sexually assaulted by two priests for six years, starting in 1988 when the boy was 8...

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