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America's Sheriff says indictment is vague, conviction should be set aside

Posted on March 13, 2009
Mike Carona, the former sheriff of Orange County, Calif., who was acquitted on five counts of conspiracy and mail fraud charges earlier this year, has asked a federal judge to set aside a sixth count of witness tampering on which...

Lawyers continue to question the Chevron way

Posted on March 13, 2009
Civil rights lawyers, who accused Chevron Corp. of human rights abuses in Nigeria for a decade only to lose a jury verdict in December, now accuse the oil giant of trying to scare off future civil rights cases by seeking...

Furloughs for deputy AGs

Posted on March 13, 2009
A Sacramento County Superior Court judge said Thursday that California's deputy attorneys general can be furloughed twice a month just like any other state worker. Judge Patrick Marlette, in affirming a tentative ruling he issued in the morning, said Thursday...

New law school exam may replace the LSAT

Posted on March 12, 2009
Two UC Berkeley academics have created a test they say is more predictive of success in the field than the LSAT. Former Berkeley law professor Marjorie Shultz and Berkeley psychology professor Sheldon Zedeck include questions in their exam about how....

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New legislation allows judges to reduce mortgage loan balances

Posted on March 12, 2009
Federal legislation under consideration that would allow judges to reduce mortgage principals could be a key to Inland Southern California's economic recovery, says one local economist.The so-called "cram-down" measure gives the U.S bankruptcy courts authority to modify existing primary home...

Pass on warrant squeaks by in Ninth Circuit

Posted on March 12, 2009
An en banc court ruled 6-5 Wednesday that San Jose cops didn't need a warrant to arrest plaintiff Steven Fisher in his home, after Fisher had holed up there for 12 hours and threatened to shoot the police with his...

Wildman Harrold gains Ginsburg

Posted on March 11, 2009
he executive director of the entertainment and media law and policy program at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, David R. Ginsburg, has joined Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon as of counsel. Ginsburg, a former television...

Pillsbury settles with SonicBlue for $10 million

Posted on March 11, 2009
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has reached a $10 million settlement in a malpractice dispute with bankrupt client SonicBlue, a court filing Tuesday shows. The firm will pay $7.6 million and forgo $2.4 million in outstanding fees to SonicBlue's estate, according...

Shumway joins Stroock in LA

Posted on March 11, 2009
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, a leading corporate, entertainment and litigation law firm, has added former William Morris agent Jeff Shumway to its burgeoning entertainment practice. Shumway will join the Los Angeles office's entertainment practice that includes well-known entertainment...

Blood contract not enough and too much in Santa Ana

Posted on March 11, 2009
The Fourth District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana agreed with a lower court Monday when it ruled that the blood contract between two Korean businessmen was unenforceable and gratuitous.In October 2004, Jinsoo Kim and his friend Stephen Son were...

I don't like Mondays

Posted on March 10, 2009
Four major firms announced job cuts on Monday, totaling more than 300 attorneys and 522 support staff. White & Case plans to cut a total of 200 associates and 200 administrative staff. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius cut 55 attorneys and...

Torah battle goes to court

Posted on March 10, 2009
A legal battle between the widow of a San Fernando Valley rabbi and his former assistant will go before a secular judge after the assistant flouted a religious court's ruling that he relinquish a set of Torahs. Rita Pauker's lawyer...

Cussler loses hat over "Sahara" flap

Posted on March 10, 2009
Best-selling author Clive Cussler has been ordered to pay $13.9 million in legal fees to Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz's film-production company, Crusader Entertainment, in the wake of Cussler's unsuccessful lawsuit over the movie adaptation of his 1992 book "Sahara," according...

Universal health care attempt in SF may face high court

Posted on March 10, 2009
San Francisco's experiment in universal health care has survived a legal hurdle with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' refusal to reconsider its September ruling, setting up an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. On March 9, the 9th...

Police union calls Soliah home from MN

Posted on March 10, 2009
The Los Angeles police union Monday called on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to oppose a bid by former Symbionese Liberation Army member and fugitive Sara Jane Olson to serve her supervised parole in Minnesota, where she would be near her family....

First three in First Gov sentenced

Posted on March 10, 2009
After pleading guilty to loan-modification fraud, three people connected with a company that scammed hundreds of distressed homeowners in Southern California have received sentences ranging from probation to six years in prison. In November, state Attorney General Edmund G...

Self-help centers crop up in CA

Posted on March 09, 2009
In response to a growing tide of pro se litigants in federal courts, legal centers in at least three districts have been set up to provide services and advice to parties who represent themselves in civil cases.The newest center opened...

ACLU goes to bat for homeless in Santa Barbara

Posted on March 09, 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the city of Santa Barbara on behalf of the homeless population, claiming city officials have committed ?unconscionable? violations in prosecuting transients. The ACLU filed the federal lawsuit over the weekend in the hopes...

Obama administration feels for Yoo

Posted on March 09, 2009
Mary Mason, senior trial counsel for the DOJ, asked Northern District Judge Jeffrey White to dismiss a complaint against former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, saying civil litigation is not an appropriate forum to address core national security issues...

Cal Supremes play Hamlet: we will have no more marriages, and the rest shall keep as they are

Posted on March 06, 2009
Two justices who backed marriage for gays and lesbians last year signaled they intend to uphold the measure that took that right away. Chief Justice Ronald George and Justice Joyce Kennard, who helped form the 4-3 majority that let same-sex...

New dean at Western State University College of Law

Posted on March 06, 2009
William E. Adams Jr., associate dean of the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center, has been named the new dean and president of Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, Calif. Adams, who starts in June, replaces Dean...

Millions at stake in Kaiser/Downey suit

Posted on March 06, 2009
A judge's ruling today may result in the Kaiser healthcare system paying out millions of dollars to about 2,000 of its employees who allege they were victims of wage and rest period violations, an attorney for some of the workers...

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