Media & Entertainment Law

Fourth District: Vexatious Litigants
This decision from the Fourth District upheld the constitutionality of portions of Florida's Vexatious Litigant Law. The case involved an inmate at a state prison who sued the prison's physician regarding a prescription...

Nine Ninth Circuit judges dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc in case where a district court entered an order declaring the plaintiff a vexatious litigant and requiring him to obtain leave of the court before filing another similar action
Nine Ninth Circuit judges dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc in case where a district court entered an order declaring the plaintiff a vexatious litigant and requiring him to obtain leave of the court before filing another similar action in the Central District of California: You can access today's dissents from the denial of rehearing en banc at this link...

Vexatious Litigant Precluded in both State and Federal Court Legal Malpractice Case
It takes a lot of vexing conduct to be foreclosed from bringing an action in state court.  One has to be very, very obstinate and really tick the judge off.  To do so in a legal malpractice setting is even harder, because the general feeling is that plaintiff must have been hurt by a lawyer before bringing the suit, and perhaps a little slack permitted...

Offices of "vexatious litigant" shut down by California state bar
The State Bar of California has shut down three Southern California offices of attorney Mitchell W. Roth, who was recently declared a vexatious litigant by a federal judge in Los Angeles, according to the State Bar...

California Shuts Down Vexatious Litigant
And no, it wasn't one of the two Larrys, Fafarman or Caldwell. A vexatious litigant is someone who files endless frivolous lawsuits against anyone and everyone. Courts are very reluctant to prevent a person from filing lawsuits, but in rare cases when someone has clearly abused that right, it can be done...

Alabama: fed court rules, Governor must seek preclearance in order to appoint a commissioner in Jefferson County (court docs attached)
The 3-judge district court has ruled for the plaintiff in Plump v. Riley. More on this later. Disclosure: Jim Blacksher and I represent the plaintiff in this case. The opinion and judgment are attached...

Discouraging Union Organizers
Strict work place rules

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Rutland School District
Double pay offered as part of class action wage dispute settlement, pending court approval.

VA Sets New Benefit Rules for Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses
Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses VA Sets New Benefit Rules

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.

National Association of Realtors
Settlement reached in broker listing antitrust lawsuit, pending court approval.