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Personal Injury & Torts


U.S. Sued Over Jet Crash Deaths

Jul. 31, 2010
By Pat Broderick

A man whose family perished when a Marine Corps jet crashed into their home has filed suit in federal court against the United...


Environmental


Bill Would Allow Green Trucks Program

Jul. 31, 2010
By Fiona Smith

A New York congressman introduced a bill Thursday that would remove the legal blockades preventing the Port of Los Angeles fro...


International


Armenians Sue Turkey Over Genocide

Jul. 31, 2010
By Ciaran Mc Evoy

Armenian descendants living in the United States sued the Republic of Turkey in federal court in Los Angeles Thursday, seeking...


Personal Injury & Torts


U.S. Court Guards Get Day in Court

Jul. 31, 2010
By Rebecca Beyer

Three federal court security guards will be allowed to go forward with many of their claims that they were retaliated against ...


Insurance


Police Sued Over Services for Deaf

Jul. 31, 2010
By Emma Gallegosn

Disability rights advocates are taking aim at local law enforcement agencies for allegedly failing to provide qualified interp...


Letter to the Editor


Comparing Eco-Disasters: Chevron v. BP

Jul. 31, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

Karen Hinton of Hinton Communications ...


Books


Accidents happen. Learn your rights or those of a lost one when tragedy hits. By Reza Torkzadeh of Slaughter & Slaughter a...


Perspective


Does invalidation of the Federal Communications Commission's "fleeting expletives policy" really matter? By Michael E. Fox of ...


Law Practice


McDonough Lawyers Jump Ship

Jul. 31, 2010
By Sara Randazzon

Twelve attorneys from McDonough Holland & Allen and one from Hanson Bridgett will launch an Oakland office for Burke, Will...


California Supreme Court


The last time Tani Cantil-Sakauye went before the State Bar's judge-vetting commission five years ago she received a lackluste...


Perspective


Haste Makes Waste: Charging for Cloud Computing

Jul. 31, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

The benefits of storing data remotely are plentiful but cloud computing also carries various legal and business conflicts, by ...


Perspective


How is emotional distress assigned a dollar value in employment and personal injury cases? By Milan Slama. ...


The package of proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct will lead the State Bar down the wrong path, by Kurt W. Melchior of ...


Construction


GAO: Waste In Courthouse Construction

Jul. 30, 2010
By Pat Broderick

The federal judiciary continues to butt heads with an oversight agency that recently issued a scathing report on how new court...


Criminal


Former Employees Accused of Theft

Jul. 30, 2010
By Amy Yarbroughn

The two were charged with grand theft and embezzlement Wednesday for allegedly stealing $2.6 million from a San Francisco soft...


Criminal


New U.S. Marshall Selected

Jul. 30, 2010
By Ciaran Mc Evoy

President Obama on Wednesday nominated Whittier Police Chief David Mark Singer to serve as U.S. Marshal for the Central Distri...


Real Estate/Development


Lenders Fingerprinted Under New Law

Jul. 30, 2010
By Jason W. Armstrong

The law is part of more stringent rules governing residential mortgage originators. ...


Mergers & Acquisitions


Skadden Lawyers Advise Food Merger

Jul. 30, 2010
By David Houstonn

A group of Skadden Arps partners based in California helped put together a deal to create a supplier of packaged convenience f...


Product Liability


Jury Tosses Yamaha Case

Jul. 30, 2010
By Amy Yarbroughn

Yamaha scored a big win in Orange County this week when the first of nearly 200 lawsuits filed alleging safety flaws in its Rh...


Technology & Science


Facebook Wins Patent Case

Jul. 30, 2010
By Craig Andersonn

A Delaware jury found Facebook Inc. was not liable for patent infringement against an Ohio-based company, because it had sold ...


Environmental


Prop. 23 Wording Sparks Duel

Jul. 30, 2010
By Fiona Smith

Supporters of a November ballot measure to suspend California's landmark global warming law objected in a lawsuit this week to...


Personal Injury & Torts


Plaintiff Presses Vons on Tapes

Jul. 30, 2010
By Ciaran Mc Evoy

A plaintiff's lawyer is insinuating that Vons may be losing or destroying evidence in slip and fall lawsuits. ...


Labor/Employment


At what point does peaceful protesting become “trespassing?” By Wendy E. Lane of Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff. ...


Immigration


Who Owns America?

Jul. 30, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

Since immigration law is about jurisdiction, one take on the debate over Arizona's law is asking who has the right to refuse e...


Government


California, Where Justice Just Got Outsourced

Jul. 30, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

Welcome to California, where a private lawyer can get deputized by any of the state's district attorneys or city attorneys, by...


Perspective


Exclusive Patent License Or Virtual Assignment?

Jul. 30, 2010
By Carla Pinedan

Don't be deceived, obtaining an exclusive patent license isn't as simple as it first appears, by Bruce G. Chapman and Keith D....


Entertainment & Sports


Securities Litigation Hits Low Point

Jul. 30, 2010
By Gabe Friedmann

Securities class-action litigation is in the doldrums, according to several recently-released studies painting a bleak picture...


Litigation


Mobile technology is laying the groundwork for what could be the next wave of wage and hour class actions: allegations of unpa...


State Bar & Bar Associations


California Bar Names New Counsel

Jul. 30, 2010
By Don Debenedictisn

The State Bar announced Wednesday that 10-year senior executive Starr Babcock will take over as the bar's general counsel next...


Constitutional Law


A group of attorneys suing Los Angeles County over allegedly illegal strip and cavity searches of inmates want to talk to Lind...