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Court of Appeals says Sony owes C3 no Moe

Posted on March 09, 2010
Sony Pictures Television Inc. owned the copyrights to 190 Three Stooges short films. C3 Entertainment Inc. claimed Sony violated the terms of a contract between the parties when Sony distributed compilations of the shorts without paying C3 a share of...

Taxes due for Twenty-Nine Palms tribe member

Posted on March 09, 2010
The California Court of Appeals has ruled that a Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians member must pay state income tax on the money she received from gaming operations at Spotlight 29 Casino. Angelina Mike had been living on another...

Residents' group opposing museum expansion drops suit

Posted on March 08, 2010
The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles has agreed to pay $150,000 to Homeowners Opposed to Museum Expansion, a neighborhood group that sued to block the center's expansion of its Museum of Tolerance. The group is made up of residents...

Birotte is new U.S. Attorney for SoCal

Posted on March 05, 2010
Andre Birotte Jr. was sworn in yesterday as the U.S. Attorney for the district covering Southern California. He was nominated to the post by President Barack Obama. Birotte is the first black U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California,...

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New LA partners at Foley & Lardner

Posted on March 05, 2010
Foley & Lardner LLP have announced that three of the firm?s senior counsel have been elected to partnership in the Los Angeles office. Jeffery R. Atkin is a member of the Energy Industry Team and the Finance & Financial Institutions...

Ramirez confirmed by Senate to FTC

Posted on March 05, 2010
The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Obama?s nomination of Edith Ramirez to the Federal Trade Commission. She will be replacing Republican Deborah Majoras, who stepped down in March 2008. A partner in Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges? Los Angeles...

New OC Corporate & Finance partner at Manatt

Posted on March 04, 2010
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced today that Thomas J. Leary has joined the firm?s Orange County office as a partner in the Corporate and Finance practice group. Leary has extensive experience advising public and private companies, boards of directors...

Supergraphics battle intensifies in Los Angeles

Posted on March 04, 2010
When Carmen Trutanich promised during his election campaign to crack down on unpermitted supergraphics, he clearly meant it. According to an LA Times story, arrest warrants have been issued against four people accused of putting up supergraphics without permits...

Activision sued for wrongful termination by former execs

Posted on March 04, 2010
Jason West and Vince Zampella, co-founders of Activision?s Infinity Ward studio, sued Activision Blizzard in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday, claiming breach of contract and wrongful termination. The two former executives, creators of the "Call of Duty" game franchise, claim...

Tri-City files suit to prevent just-around-the-corner clinics in its district

Posted on March 04, 2010
In a lawsuit filed on February 26, the Oceanside-based Tri-City Healthcare District asked a judge to block Escondido-based Palomar Pomerado Health from building a series of quickie medical clinics inside Albertson's grocery stores. The stores are located in Oceanside, San...

OC jury decides Allergan not liable in girl's death

Posted on March 03, 2010
A jury refused to hold Botox maker Allergan Inc. liable for the death of a 7-year-old Texas girl being treated for cerebral palsy, saying that the warning labels provided by the company were more than adequate. Kristen Spears, born with...

Former O'Melveny & Myers partner new nom for Dept. of Commerce

Posted on March 03, 2010
President Barack Obama has announced that he intends to nominate Michael C. Camu�ez to be the Department of Commerce?s assistant secretary for market access and compliance. A former partner at O'Melveny & Myers, Camu�ez is currently special counsel to the...

Anti-solicitation law shelved, for now, in Costa Mesa

Posted on March 03, 2010
Barely a month after civil rights groups filed a lawsuit challenging Costa Mesa's anti-solicitation ordinance on the grounds that it prevented day laborers from looking for work on the street, we have a moratorium. The city agreed to stop enforcing...

Expenditure limit lifted in fraud litigation

Posted on March 03, 2010
San Bernardino County Counsel Ruth Stringer has requested that the Board of Supervisors remove a spending cap from the county's contract with Irell & Manella in connection with the civil action against former county assessor Bill Postmus. John Hueston, an...

An about-face on approved flora

Posted on March 03, 2010
For two years the city of Orange has been fighting with Quan and Angelina Ha over the couple's decision to remove their front lawn, in order to preserve water and save money. That dispute was supposed to reach a courtroom...

San Jose sees beginnings of its first federal death penalty trial

Posted on March 02, 2010
For the next six months, 35-year-old Anh The Duong will face a sweeping racketeering indictment accusing him of leading a violent gang that carried out murders and robberies throughout California and Nevada during the 1990s. It will be the first...

Water-saving lawn removal at odds with OC codes

Posted on March 02, 2010
The road to litigation is sometimes paved with good intentions - and wood chips. Two years ago Quan and Angelina Ha tore out the grass in their frontyard. As far as they were concerned, their reasoning was sound: the grass...

Barton C. Gaut, longtime legal figure in Riverside, retires

Posted on March 02, 2010
Since 1962 when he first arrived on the scene as a newly graduated litigator, Barton C. Gaut has served his entire legal career in Riverside. After nearly 13 years on the Fourth District Court of Appeals as an associate justice,...

Rutter Hobbs announces new partners and litigator in LA

Posted on March 01, 2010
Los Angeles-based Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff Incorporated have announced the appointment of partners Richard Hong and Paul J. Laurin, and litigation associate Risa J. Morris. Hong joins the firm from Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP. He will assist Rutter...

Lawsuits may imperil Riverside County Senate candidates

Posted on March 01, 2010
Former Assemblyman Russ Bogh and Assemblyman Bill Emmerson are both running for Riverside County's 37th District Senate seat on the Republican ticket. And both have pending lawsuits that might affect their candidacies. Bogh's family business, Bogh Construction Inc...

Claims filed against state by Dugard family members

Posted on March 01, 2010
Members of the Dugard family, including Jaycee Dugard herself, have filed claims against California, citing "various lapses by corrections department" and claiming "psychological, physical and emotional" damages. State parole agents started supervising Phillip Garrido in 1999, when he fell under...

Anthem Blue Cross sued by consumer group

Posted on March 01, 2010
Consumer Watchdog has filed suit against Anthem Blue Cross, claiming the insurance giant has violated state law by closing certain policies to new members while illegally offering remaining customers alternative plans with fewer benefits at higher rates...

C3 dispensary to close

Posted on February 26, 2010
The C3 Collective marijuana dispensary in Walnut Creek has been ordered to close. Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Barry Baskin granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday afternoon to close C3 or else face contempt of court charges. In his ruling,...

Lujan pleads guilty to perjury

Posted on February 26, 2010
Louie Lujan is the former mayor of La Puente. And because of a plea deal, it will be the last public office he will ever hold. Lujan has pleaded guilty to charges of perjury, stemming from campaign finance reports that...

LAUSD sued over teacher layoffs

Posted on February 25, 2010
The ACLU and other civil rights lawyers have filed suit against the state and Los Angeles Unified School District on behalf of three middle-school students, alleging that budget cuts and teacher layoffs have infringed on their equal rights to an...

Ogletree Deakins opens new office in Orange County

Posted on February 25, 2010
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. have announced that they will open an office in Orange County on March 1. Joining the firm as co-managing shareholders will be Vince Verde and Keith Watts, formerly with the Orange County office...

Duffy new Obama pick for U.S. attorney

Posted on February 25, 2010
President Barack Obama nominated assistant U.S. attorney Laura E. Duffy yesterday to be the next U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California. If confirmed, Duffy would replace current U.S. Attorney Karen Hewitt, who took over the position when her...

Supergraphics under siege again in LA

Posted on February 24, 2010
Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich filed a lawsuit on Monday that accuses several individuals and businesses of erecting supergraphic advertisements illegally on buildings across the city, including the Sherman Oaks Galleria and the Howard Hughes Center in Westchester...

Preliminary injunction reinstates autism therapy

Posted on February 24, 2010
The Los Angeles Superior Court issued a preliminary injunction yesterday against the Eastern Los Angeles Regional Center in Alhambra for unlawfully terminating a treatment for autism. The order requires ELARC to reinstate funding for Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-based treatment services...

Johnson joins Arent Fox in LA

Posted on February 24, 2010
Arent Fox LLP announced last week that leading labor and employment lawyer Harry I. Johnson III has joined the firm as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. He comes to Arent Fox from Jones Day, where he served...

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