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Medical marijuana appeals to Supreme Court take a hit

Posted on May 18, 2009
The Supreme Court today refused to hear appeals from San Diego and San Bernardino counties regarding Proposition 213, which legalized marijuana in California for medical use. Both counties will not accommodate the state law, saying the justices have never directly...

Body parts scheme ends in guilty verdict for Nelson

Posted on May 15, 2009
Not even a month after opening statements, Ernest Nelson was convicted yesterday in the $1.5 million cadaver carve-and-sell scheme. A jury found Nelson, 51, guilty of eight counts, including conspiracy to commit grand theft, grand theft and tax evasion...

Desalination plant, given the final go-ahead, still faces uphill from opponents

Posted on May 15, 2009
The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve permit revisions for the biggest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, north of San Diego, which will produce 50 million gallons of drinking water daily,...

Kaiser hit with $250,000 fine for privacy violations

Posted on May 15, 2009
California health regulators fined Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower hospital $250,000 yesterday for violating patient privacy laws when several hospital employees inappropriately accessed medical records for octuplet mother Nadya Suleman. The California Department of Public Health found the hospital did not do...

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Three SoCal counties begin screening immigration status of inmates

Posted on May 14, 2009
Law enforcement agencies in three Southern California counties will soon be able to check the immigration status of arrestees when their fingerprints are taken. Law enforcement officials in Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego will begin running inmates' fingerprints through...

Wage-and-hour Wachovia/stock broker suit settles to the tune of $39 million

Posted on May 14, 2009
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter in Los Angeles has approved a $39 million preliminary settlement to resolve the multidistrict litigation between Wachovia Corp. and more than 10,000 stock brokers who alleged that they were denied overtime pay and other...

2010 may no longer be the year to make contact for law students

Posted on May 13, 2009
With no sign of a lasting rebound in the wider economy, some law firm leaders are playing it safe by reducing their 2010 summer programs or skipping them altogether. The latest predictions of adjustments come on the heels of dramatic...

SDG&E under fire for four-generator plan

Posted on May 13, 2009
San Diego Gas & Electric Co. officials said in a report Tuesday that the region may want to invest in a pool of four backup generators to make sure there is water to fight fire while power is out in...

Al Capone or the Gallo Brothers?

Posted on May 13, 2009
Marijuana advocate Cliff Schaeffer says those are California's choices to run the inevitable pot trade. He claims legalization would not only drive the Mexican drug lords out of business but also single-handedly save Central Valley's farmers as well as cities...

Burger King says money from syrup is honey for ads

Posted on May 13, 2009
National Franchise Association Inc., which represents over 75% of Burger King's U.S franchise operators, is trying to block plans by the parent company to divert rebates the store operators receive from buying soft-drink syrup into a beefed-up national advertising budget...

Division and dissent not enough to overturn death sentence

Posted on May 13, 2009
Lawyers for Kevin Cooper, a Southern California man convicted of murdering four people after escaping from prison, said Tuesday they would take his case to the U.S. Supreme Court after a bitterly divided Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld...

Unfair representation claim not compelling enough to remove Thelen case from federal court

Posted on May 13, 2009
The lawsuit filed against Thelen by former employees seeking unpaid wages and vacation time will remain in federal court under a May 11 ruling. Todd Bennett and Matthew Troup sued the defunct firm in San Francisco Superior Court on behalf...

Attorney general files suit against "rip-off" brothers

Posted on May 12, 2009
Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a lawsuit today against two brothers, Sean and Michael McConville, who "ripped off homeowners" seeking help in reducing their property tax assessments by billing them nearly $200 each for property tax reassessment that can be...

Greenberg Traurig expands corporate and land development groups

Posted on May 12, 2009
Greenberg Traurig LLP announced yesterday the addition of attorneys in its Corporate and Securities, Environmental and Land Development Practice groups. Allan J. Abshez joins as shareholder in the Environmental and Land Development Practice groups where he will continue to work...

Skilling files federal appeal, claiming murky "honest services" application and "pervasive media coverage"

Posted on May 12, 2009
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling has asked the Supreme Court to overturn his 2006 conviction for insider trading. The current appeal says Skilling was improperly convicted of withholding his "honest services" from Enron's shareholders, which would be a violation of...

Marvell backdating case yields no-cash settlement, with attorney fees delayed

Posted on May 12, 2009
U.S. District Judge Ronald M. Whyte in San Jose approved a stock options backdating settlement with Marvell Technology Group Ltd. that involves no cash payments to the company. Whyte approved the substance of the deal on May 8 but delayed...

Appeals court rules U.S. gun makers protected by law

Posted on May 12, 2009
A U.S. appeals court in San Francisco yesterday rejected a bid by victims of a 1999 shooting rampage at a Jewish community center in Granada Hills to sue a federally licensed gun manufacturer and a distributor. The court said the...

Pasadena Court of Appeals judge possible candidate for Souter replacement

Posted on May 11, 2009
Kim McLane Wardlaw, a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judge whose chambers are located in Pasadena, is among those considered as a candidate to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter when he steps down from the bench next month. Wardlaw,...

Teacher unions file lawsuit for more school funds

Posted on May 11, 2009
The California Federation of Teachers and the Service Employees International Union Local 99 in Southern California filed a lawsuit against the state of California on Thursday. The lawsuit argues that the state must repay schools the amount it's taking away,...

Emissions credit bill supporters gather at LB Airport

Posted on May 11, 2009
Lawmakers joined air quality regulators at Long Beach Airport on Friday to urge passage of emergency legislation that allows thousands of Southland small businesses and public agencies to bypass what they say are unreasonable new air quality regulations...

W.R. Grace acquitted of asbestos charges

Posted on May 11, 2009
After a five-year court battle, a Montana federal jury on Friday acquitted W.R. Grace & Co. and three former executives of criminal violations of the Clean Air Act in connection with alleged asbestos exposure at its mine in the town...

Wildman Harrold jumps the money train with Bernstein

Posted on May 11, 2009
Frederic I. Bernstein has joined Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon's office in Beverly Hills. The former president of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Cos. joins the Chicago-based firm as a partner, bringing with him associate Gregg Ramer. Both came from...

Looking a GIFT horse in the mouth

Posted on May 08, 2009
Investigators from the Orange County District Attorney's Gatekeepers Insurance Fraud Team conducted walk-in visits of chiropractic clinics and law offices in 2006 and 2007, posing as "patients" claiming to be suffering from soft tissue damage from car accidents...

SEC making up for loss time

Posted on May 08, 2009
In the aftermath of a tidal wave of accusations that they neglected to prevent Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, the Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up enforcement efforts to crack down on investor fraud and other scams. In Los...

LA-builder alleged to conspire with Countrywide to inflate sales, says Phoenix suit

Posted on May 08, 2009
Home-buyers sued KB Home in Phoenix federal court Thursday, claiming the builder conspired with Countrywide Financial to inflate appraisals for home sales in Arizona and Nevada. The class-action suit focuses on home sales in the two states since 2006, alleging...

Gang injunction rejected in OC

Posted on May 08, 2009
Superior Court Judge Kazharu Makino in Orange County rejected issuing a preliminary gang injunction against four people on Thursday, ruling that the district attorney failed to prove they were gang members. ?This is an indication of the extent to which...

Lewis & Roca take three White & Case attorneys to their new CA office

Posted on May 08, 2009
Lewis and Roca has opened its first California office in Silicon Valley's Mountain View with the addition of three intellectual property attorneys from White & Case. The new office is spearheaded by Frank Hiscox and Dana Brody-Brown, who now are...

CAN-SPAM can supersede, says judge

Posted on May 07, 2009
A Los Angeles judge, ruling on a case of first impression, has found that the federal CAN-SPAM Act preempts a California law designed to curb false and misleading commercial emails. The case was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court against...

Judge claims "extortion" in asbestos suit

Posted on May 07, 2009
A Los Angeles judge has blasted one of the nation's leading plaintiffs firms in asbestos litigation for attempting to obtain an upper hand in the case through what he called a "type of judicially sanctioned extortion." The judge's statements came...

CA firms take top spots in Diversity Scorecard

Posted on May 06, 2009
Four of the top five spots in Minority Law Journal's Diversity Scorecard are taken by CA-based firms. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, based in Palo Alto, ranks first. They are followed by San Francisco-based Townsend and Townsend and Crew. Los...

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