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Million-dollar settlement for patients and their families affected by Kaiser's overburdened transplant program

Posted on April 17, 2009
Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest HMO, has agreed to pay $1 million to settle claims on behalf of five patients alleging mishandling of its kidney transplant program, endangering lives and causing deaths. The arbitration claims were filed shortly after a...

A viable alternative to temping for deferred associates

Posted on April 17, 2009
A new LL.M program at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law is said to be designed specifically with deferred associates in mind. According to Dean Michael Schill, the curriculum develops real-world legal skills such as drafting...

Octuplet-encumbered matriarch seeks trademark for nickname

Posted on April 16, 2009
According to two applications filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Nadya Suleman is looking to trademark her more widely-known nickname, "Octomom." Filed last Friday, the applications claim Suleman wants the rights to her moniker for use on clothing...

Bankruptcy filing won't stop the shopping

Posted on April 16, 2009
General Growth Properties, owner of the Glendale Galleria and other prominent malls, filed today for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, hoping to reduce and restructure its debt. The company had warned last fall that such a move was imminent if negotiations...

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Housing expert weighs in on Duroville as civil trial continues

Posted on April 16, 2009
Jack Kerin, a former California housing official who worked for 30 years in the Department of Housing & Community Development, testified today in the continuing Duroville trial. Kerin was called by attorneys for Duroville's tenants and said that closing mobile...

New OC DNA program raises privacy and safety concerns

Posted on April 16, 2009
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, embroiled in a long feud with the Sheriff's Department over who should oversee DNA gathering and analysis, quietly rolled out a program that allows OC defendants charged with some misdemeanors and low-level drug felonies...

English-only allegations yield settlement for Latino workers

Posted on April 16, 2009
A class-action lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Los Angeles resulted in a settlement in favor of Latino workers in California and Texas who were allegedly punished for speaking Spanish in their workplaces. The lawsuit alleged...

You say tomayto, I say tomahto: Attorneys and Rocco argue worth of $1.20 ketchup bottle

Posted on April 15, 2009
Only one man could steal Chapman U. headlines from John Yoo: Steve Rocco. The self-styled writer/educator and conspiracy theorist is being tried for allegedly stealing a 14-ounce Heinz bottle from a dining area outside the cafeteria at the university...

Former Clinton border czar to be named the same by Obama administration

Posted on April 15, 2009
Former U.S. attorney and school superintendent Alan Bersin is expected to be the Obama administration's choice for the new U.S.-Mexico "border czar." Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano may name Bersin to the post today during a visit to the border...

69-year-old charged with murder at Korean retreat

Posted on April 15, 2009
Riverside County district attorney's spokesman John Hall said yesterday they would charge John Chong with one count of murder and three counts of attempted murder. Chong, 69, went on a shooting spree at a Roman Catholic Korean retreat in Southern...

Bitter Lawyer's rack story makes Rush's stack of stuff

Posted on April 14, 2009
Bitter Lawyer posted a story last week about the effects, for good and ill, of breast implants on a woman's career in the law. (And lest you think LALP is shoehorning on a slow news day, there are a couple...

All eyes on Montali as ex-Brobeck partners argue for taking clients to new firms

Posted on April 14, 2009
In a hearing closely watched by both sides of the Heller Ehrman bankruptcy, ten former Brobeck partners and their new firms argued Monday that they were completely in their rights to continue to work with their clients. The ex-partners contend...

Cell phone smuggling holds sway in CA prisons

Posted on April 14, 2009
Cell phones have replaced drugs as the contraband of choice among prisoners. Last year California prison officials confiscated about 2,800 cell phones statewide, which is double the number from the previous year. According to officials, cell phones allow gang leaders...

DA's office came, saw, and conquered with a sentence that paves a long way to be happy for Spector

Posted on April 14, 2009
After a little over two weeks of deliberations, a jury in Los Angeles found Phil Spector guilty of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of Lana Clarkson. The 69-year-old faces a mandatory life sentence, with 18 years to be...

Jenner & Block make L.A. their new home

Posted on April 14, 2009
Jenner & Block announced Monday the opening of its new Los Angeles office, which will be led by two former partners in the Los Angeles office of Chicago's Kirkland & Ellis. Rick Richmond and Brent Caslin have joined Jenner in...

Dewey lawyer thinks of the children first in landmark Iowa case

Posted on April 13, 2009
Vivian Polak, chair of Dewey & LeBoeuf's diversity committee, filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers, the Middleton Center for Children's Rights and other nonprofit organizations in Varnum v. Brien, the case that went...

ITC puts a stop to high-def TV imports, claiming patent infringement

Posted on April 13, 2009
The International Trade Commission issued an order on Friday in favor of Morrison & Foerster client Funio, blocking rival Vizio from importing high-definition televisions into the United States. This confirms a ruling by an administrative law judge in the Washington,...

L.A. county D.A. bombards Brown Act violators with warnings

Posted on April 13, 2009
For more than 50 years, California's open meetings law, the Brown Act, has required members of city councils, school boards and a host of other local government agencies to conduct business in public. Every state gives the public the right...

Priest sues bishop and diocese over rumors

Posted on April 10, 2009
Michael Nguyen, a Roman Catholic priest who became a diocesan priest in 2003, is suing Bishop Tod Brown, five of his fellow priests and the Diocese of Orange, claiming they have spread lies about him and harmed his reputation. He...

Developers of nonexistent Trump Baja resort get sued by Donald

Posted on April 10, 2009
Last month investors in Donald Trump's proposed 526-suite Trump Ocean Resort Baja filed lawsuits in Los Angeles Superior Court when the project fell through and no forthcoming refunds. Buyers were led to think that Trump played an active role in...

Racial profiling prompted cops to get everyone lined up at barbershops, says ACLU

Posted on April 10, 2009
A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses Moreno Valley police officers of racial profiling in raiding black-owned barbershops without warrants last April. The lawsuit further contends that the police department, the Sheriff's Department and a state inspection board conducted searches under...

Disner dies at 62

Posted on April 10, 2009
Eliot Disner, A former McGuireWoods partner who objected to a $49 million settlement with the parent company of BAR/BRI, the United States' largest provider of bar review courses, died on Saturday in Los Angeles at 62. According to his obituary,...

City reads riot act to College Hospitals over patient Skid Row dumping

Posted on April 09, 2009
City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office reported yesterday that a $1.6 million settlement has been reached with two Southern California hospitals accused of improperly discharging and dumping psychiatric patients on Skid Row in Los Angeles. Officials allege that over two years,...

Technology and privacy: are they mutually exclusive, especially in the office?

Posted on April 09, 2009
US federal law is beginning to delineate the limits of digital privacy in the office. In spite of the Fourth Amendment and the Stored Communications Act of 1986, employers are looking into ways of accessing their employees' emails, texts, and...

Quinn Emanuel cuts 10, despite revenue gains

Posted on April 09, 2009
JDJournal had it right yesterday: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges laid off 10 staff members this week. Urquhart, in an e-mail to The National Law Journal, said that no lawyers had been laid off. He declined to comment further....

Satriani may wait in vain for Coldplay's heads on a silver plate in court

Posted on April 08, 2009
A little over four months after guitarist Joe Satriani accused the Grammy-winning band Coldplay of copyright infringement, lawyers for the band denied any stealing of the alleged "substantial portions" of Satriani's song "If I Could Fly" to comprise its big...

"Straw buyer" indictment hits Southern District

Posted on April 08, 2009
An indictment unsealed Tuesday charges two dozen people, including a documented gang member, with racketeering offenses stemming from an extensive mortgage fraud scheme based in San Diego. The defendants identified properties throughout Southern California that had been on the market...

Opening testimony in Duroville trial

Posted on April 08, 2009
The trial to determine Duroville's fate got underway yesterday in U.S. District Court in Riverside. The U.S. government wants Duroville shut down, arguing that efforts have failed to fix its leaking sewer pipes and bad or no electrical and water...

Edwards Angell gets CA foothold

Posted on April 08, 2009
Boston's Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has opened its first California office in the Los Angeles area. Jon-Paul LaPointe (left), who joined Edward Angell as counsel in the litigation management group from his own firm, will head the new office....

Spector's legal troubles have his finances at an ebb tide

Posted on April 08, 2009
Since his arrest, Phil Spector has used the services of at least 11 criminal defense attorneys -- including one who charged $1 million for a year of representation, four private investigators, five paralegals, a jury consultant and a stable of...

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