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Prosecutors claim Ruehle knew his statements weren't confidential

Posted on August 04, 2009
Federal prosecutors in the William Ruehle case argued in a recent brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that the former chief financial officer of Broadcom knew that statements he made to his attorneys at Irell...

Blue Cross accused of deliberately underpaying out-of-network hospitals

Posted on August 03, 2009
Methodist Hospital of Southern California has accused Blue Cross and Anthem affiliates in 10 states of RICO and ERISA violations. Methodist alleges that Blue Cross refuses to let it transfer patients from emergency rooms, then underpays the hospital and sticks...

Challenge to county and state benefits for LA judges dismissed, again

Posted on August 03, 2009
An appellate court justice has dismissed a taxpayer lawsuit challenging the dual payment of county and state benefits to Los Angeles County Superior Court judges for the second time in less than three years. In a 17-page decision, Justice James...

Coupons in lieu of cash no victory for consumers

Posted on August 03, 2009
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David De Alba authorized the settlement of a class action that lawyers argued could be worth as much as $500 million to people who owned Ford Explorers during the 1990s. It was a complex case...

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Heat illness preventions to be updated, ACLU still not satisfied

Posted on August 03, 2009
A day after the ACLU filed suit, the Department of Industrial Relations' Division of Occupational Safety and Health filed a proposal with the Cal/OSHA standards board to update California's first heat illness prevention regulations. The action also follows the July...

Hiring trends in recession basis for new course at Santa Clara

Posted on August 03, 2009
Santa Clara University School of Law has rolled out a new program that utilizes advice from working attorneys on how to understand the looming recession and its impact on recruiting. According to Vicki Huebner, the assistant dean for law career...

Judge's rule city intrusion into state's jurisdiction with grocery worker ordinance

Posted on August 03, 2009
A state appellate panel has upheld a lower court ruling that overturned a Los Angeles ordinance requiring new owners of grocery stores to retain existing workers for 90 days. The city ordinance, enacted in 2005, cited a threat to health...

Sheppard Mullin gives Yahoo a Pass

Posted on August 03, 2009
Brian Pass, an entertainment and IP partner at Sheppard Mullin, helped negotiate the ten-year Internet search and advertising deal Yahoo struck with Microsoft last week, a partnership that might help Yahoo break Google's dominance in that particular market...

MOVERS: Ice Miller and Laquer Urban

Posted on July 31, 2009
Ice Miller LLP announced this week that Mark Neyland has joined the firm as senior counsel in the collegiate sports practice. Neyland previously served as an assistant director of enforcement at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Neyland was the...

Producers allegedly made payoffs to ensure little Dieter flight

Posted on July 31, 2009
A closely watched criminal trial begins Aug. 4 in a Los Angeles federal court involving a pair of Beverly Hills film producers. In a 22-count superseding indictment, federal prosecutors outline a case alleging that Gerald and Patricia Green, whose recent...

ACLU to sue state over inadequate heat protections

Posted on July 30, 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union, the United Farm Workers of America and a number of farmworkers are announcing a lawsuit against the state of California and its Division of Occupational Safety and Health, accusing them of failing to protect the...

Second Amendment ruling under review by 9th Circuit

Posted on July 30, 2009
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Wednesday to review en banc a panel ruling that had significantly broadened Second Amendment protections by applying them to state and local governments. This holding, arrived at by Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain, is...

Professors say 'broader life experience makes for better decisions'

Posted on July 30, 2009
Daria Roithmayr of the USC Gould School of Law, in collaboration with Duke Law School's Guy-Uriel Charles, has a column over at CNN.com that tackles the ideas of race and experience as they pertain to decision-making. They touch on new...

SLO County to cough up defense cash for jailed Paso Robles firm family

Posted on July 30, 2009
Thanks to a judge's ruling, a jailed mother and son who were also the president and vice-president of a bankrupt money lending company will be unable to pay for their defense, leaving San Luis Obispo with the bill. Superior Court...

Illinois demands shuttering of allegedly false charitable organization

Posted on July 29, 2009
Morrell Steven Neely is listed as the director of the Center for AIDS Prevention, which describes itself as a Beverly Hills-based nonprofit that provides information on HIV and AIDS. However, court documents filed last week in Illinois allege Neely was...

Dole defamation defense goes to Lathrop & Gage

Posted on July 29, 2009
Earlier this month Dole Food Co. filed suit against the makers of a documentary of the first U.S. trial involving the pesticide claims against Dole. "Bananas!" was screened during Film Independent's Los Angeles Film Festival and, according to Dole, excluded...

Abergil gang to be extradited to the U.S.

Posted on July 28, 2009
A motion to extradite Yitzhak Abergil and accomplices to the United States to stand trial on charges including murder, extortion, and drug dealing was granted today by the Jerusalem District Court. According to an indictment, Yitzhak Abergil took part in...

Death sentence upheld for East Palo Alto woman

Posted on July 28, 2009
Celeste Carrington, 47, admitted fatally shooting Victor Esparza, 34, a janitor at a shoe factory in San Carlos, in January 1992, and Caroline Gleason, 36, a property manager at a real estate office in Palo Alto, in another robbery two...

Biometric verification: doubters say 'devil is in the details'

Posted on July 28, 2009
Lawyers are expressing both skepticism and criticism about the concept of using biometric data, such as fingerprints and retina scans, to verify if employees are eligible to work in the United States. Senator Charles Schumer, who also chairs the Senate...

Governor intervenes on behalf of disabled student's bar exam case

Posted on July 28, 2009
Sara Granda, a recent graduate of the University of California, Davis School of Law and a paraplegic, failed to meet a June 15 online application deadline for the bar exam. Her attorney, Stewart Katz, of the Law Offices of Stewart...

Southwestern professor's daughter abducted near school, found murdered

Posted on July 28, 2009
The recent abduction and murder of a 17-year-old girl, the daughter of a partner at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck who had just finished a summer course as an adjunct professor at Southwestern University School of Law, has sent shockwaves through...

Smaller firms lead by example in lean times

Posted on July 28, 2009
Berliner Cohen. Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel Inc. Ropers Majeski Kohn Bentley PC. What do these firms have in common? Layoffs have been the norm in stories about big firms lately. While giants crumbled and others restructured salary arrangements for...

Recession making it difficult to discuss it in Hollywood

Posted on July 27, 2009
Hollywood's dream machine is not immune to the recession. The Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the major studios, reported the release of 284 movies in the United States between January 2 and July 21, compared to 336 films...

Forget it, Jake - it's San Bernardino County

Posted on July 27, 2009
Taking on corruption is no easy task, but it would seem in San Bernardino County the difficulties magnify a hundredfold. Leonard Gumport was hired by the county in mid-2000 to investigate former top county officials who took bribes and kickbacks...

Former California 'evangelist' found guilty on all counts

Posted on July 27, 2009
There has been some pretty lurid testimony delivered in the Tony Alamo case over the past couple of weeks. Four "Jane Does" have come forward to testify to Alamo's penchant for young girls. One, now 17, said the evangelist married...

UC law school faculty to see pay cuts and furloughs

Posted on July 24, 2009
Law school faculty in the University of California system will see furloughs and a cut in pay for the upcoming school year. Although not unforeseen, says UC Davis school of law dean Kevin Johnson, "it's not a morale booster." The...

Wilson closes JDL civil trial amid claims of First Amendment violations

Posted on July 24, 2009
U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson perplexed Constitutional scholars and advocates of freedom of the press when he closed the two-day trial in a case involving the 2005 prison killing of Jewish Defense League activist Earl Krugel. Wilson issued a....

SEC tells Maynard to reimburse $4.1 million to CSK

Posted on July 23, 2009
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission demanded that CSK Auto Corp.?s former chief executive officer forfeit $4.1 million he received during an accounting fraud he didn?t orchestrate. Maynard L. Jenkins was ordered to return bonuses and stock-sale profits he earned...

Prison guard's brutality convictions reinstated by Ninth Circuit

Posted on July 23, 2009
A federal appeals court has reinstated the brutality convictions of a Southern California prison guard for yanking two shackled inmates from a van and throwing them to the ground headfirst. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco...

Attorneys and civil rights groups unhappy with one another in Prop 8 challenge

Posted on July 22, 2009
Gay rights groups' attempt to intervene in a federal challenge of California's Proposition 8 has created a rift with the high-powered attorneys heading the case, turning erstwhile allies into head-butting competitors. Civil rights groups worry that Theodore Olson, David Boies...

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