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Former OC judge joins Panish Shea & Boyle in LA

Posted on February 24, 2010
Panish Shea & Boyle LLP has announced that former Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter J. Polos has joined the firm in an "Of Counsel" role following his retirement from the bench on February 19, 2010. He is the firm?s...

Rodney Alcala's closing statements

Posted on February 23, 2010
After prosecutor Matt Murphy delivered his closing statements in the Alcala trial, the time came for Rodney Alcala himself to deliver his last argument. For two hours, Alcala insisted to the jury that the evidence against him was made up...

Cooley and Trutanich move forward with med-marijuana suits

Posted on February 23, 2010
Making good on their promises to take aggressive action against illegal marijuana dispensaries, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley and City Atty. Carmen Trutanich have snapped into action. Jeff Joseph, the operator of Venice-area outlet Organica, was charged yesterday...

Anthem Blue Cross to be grilled about coverage, rate hikes

Posted on February 23, 2010
Anthem Blue Cross may be feeling a wee bit up against it this week. First, there's the trial taking place in Los Angeles Superior Court, where the insurance giant faces charges of refusing to pay for Ephraim Nehme to get...

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Fuentes de-friends Facebooking jurors with new bill

Posted on February 23, 2010
Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, D-Sylmar, introduced legislation last week that would amend civil and criminal contempt statutes to allow punishment of jurors who discuss confidential legal proceedings via Google, Twitter, Facebook and the like. The growing problem of jurors using the...

Six Venable attorneys move to Arent Fox

Posted on February 23, 2010
Arent Fox LLP announced last week that six attorneys are joining the firm's automotive practice. Aaron H. Jacoby, John D. Bronstein, and Richard D. Buckley, Jr. join Arent Fox as partners. Kenneth Murphy joins as counsel. Rounding out the new...

Closing arguments in Alcala trial

Posted on February 22, 2010
After more than a month of testimony, closing arguments have begun in the Rodney Alcala trial. Prosecutor Matt Murphy told jurors today to use their common sense in finding 66-year-old Rodney Alcala guilty. He also begged the jury to convict...

Adkins leaves OC for DC

Posted on February 22, 2010
Robb Adkins, the top federal prosecutor in Orange County, left the U.S. Attorney's Office last week to head a government agency aimed at quelling financial crime. Adkins will handle a variety of criminal and civil actions as part of the...

OC deputies union request to stop early releases denied

Posted on February 22, 2010
Last Thursday, an Orange County judge rejected a request by the Orange County sheriff's deputies union to immediately halt the early releases from that county's jail, saying that decision should be in the hands of Sheriff Sandra Hutchens. Sheriff Lee...

Despite sting op, doctor keeps medical license

Posted on February 22, 2010
A San Diego judge refused for the second time to temporarily suspend the license of Dr. Andrew Rutland. In a sting at one of Rutland's offices, an investigator said Rutland offered to give her a tablet that would induce miscarriage,...

Real estate fraud scheme lands five in prison

Posted on February 18, 2010
Edward Seung Ok, a 40-year-old Huntington Beach man, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison yesterday for his role in a $12-million real estate fraud scheme that targeted about 100 homeowners in southern California who faced foreclosures, according to...

L.A. activist at the center of Supreme Court anti-terrorism case

Posted on February 18, 2010
Ralph Fertig, a 79-year-old pacifist and human rights activist from Los Angeles, will be the lead plaintiff in a Supreme Court case to be heard next week that will test whether speaking out on behalf of an oppressed foreign minority...

OC deputies union sues to cease early inmate release

Posted on February 17, 2010
Last week, a judge in Sacramento County issued a temporary restraining order halting the release of the inmates under the new state law. The union representing sheriff's deputies in Orange County is hoping for a similar resolution to the lawsuit...

New LA litigation partner at Manatt

Posted on February 17, 2010
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP have announced the addition of Becca J. Wahlquist as a partner in the litigation department in Los Angeles. Before coming to Manatt, she was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Wahlquist focuses her practice...

Environmental groups claim rush to judgment in Powerlink lawsuit

Posted on February 17, 2010
A lawsuit was filed yesterday by three San Diego community groups to stop construction of San Diego Gas and Electric's Sunrise Powerlink transmission line through southern Imperial and San Diego counties. The Protect Our Communities Foundation, Back Country Against Dumps,...

She says/he says/DOJ says in DA race conviction rate dispute

Posted on February 16, 2010
The district attorney race in Sonoma County is heating up over conviction rates. Challenger Jill Ravitch says statistics show incumbent Stephan Passalacqua never scored better than 74 percent from 2003 to 2008, and scored at 62 percent in 2007. Advertisements...

Baylor gains new Starr president

Posted on February 16, 2010
Kenneth Starr is leaving his post as dean of Pepperdine University School of Law to become president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He says the decision was prompted by a desire to move back to his home state. In...

Entertainment law firm announces three new attorneys to its letterhead

Posted on February 16, 2010
Entertainment law firm Morris Yorn Barnes & Levine announced today that it has added three long-time firm attorneys, David Krintzman, Todd Rubenstein and Alex Kohner to the firm's masthead. David Krintzman joined the firm as its first associate in 1995...

Jury awards $12M in hospital negligence case

Posted on February 12, 2010
A jury in Pomona Superior Court found that Greater El Monte Community Hospital was negligent in treating Jessica Ramirez, a woman left in a vegetative state after waiting hours at the hospital before being sent elsewhere for surgery to remove...

Pilot program shields construction projects from lawsuits

Posted on February 12, 2010
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office introduced a pilot program on Wednesday in Sacramento that would fast-track select construction projects by exempting them from environment-related legal challenges, with the aim to speed up the start of construction...

Sheppard Mullin announces new partners

Posted on February 12, 2010
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announced Wednesday that it has elevated 10 of its attorneys to partner, including five in Los Angeles and two in San Diego. In Los Angeles: Alfred Fraijo Jr. is a member of the Real...

Former Tustin hospital CFO pleads guilty in fraud scheme

Posted on February 11, 2010
Vincent Rubio, the former chief financial officer for Tustin Hospital and Medical Center, was charged two years ago with participating in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud Medicare and Medi-Cal. The hospital, according to authorities, paid a skid row center operator...

Seal Beach medical marijuana suit settled

Posted on February 11, 2010
Bruce Benedict, a former resident of Seal Beach, sued the town's police in August 2008, claiming they unlawfully confiscated 40 to 50 medical marijuana plants and forced him to become a police informant. Benedict suffers from hepatitis C and was...

Biller can't release Toyota documents, but Toyota can't have them back yet

Posted on February 11, 2010
An arbitrator in a federal lawsuit filed by former Toyota Motor Corp. attorney Dimitrios Biller issued a preliminary injunction yesterday preventing the lawyer from disclosing internal company documents until a ruling is issued about the merits of the case...

Judge nixes delta pumping restriction delay

Posted on February 11, 2010
Five days after U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wanger put a two-week hold on water pumping restrictions, he rejected an emergency request by water districts representing cities and Valley farmers to delay a new set of pumping restrictions in the...

Carlsbad desalination plant approved

Posted on February 11, 2010
The California Coastal Commission voted 8-to-4 yesterday to allow Poseidon Resources to continue to develop an ocean-water desalination plant in Carlsbad, denying a revocation request from Surfrider Foundation and San Diego Coastkeeper. KBPS reports that the issue at hand was...

Cal Supremes say a footrest is a footrest is a footrest

Posted on February 09, 2010
Overturning two lower courts, the California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that state law does not prohibit people from carrying bicycle footrests, even though police say some gang members use the parts as illegal metal knuckles. The case arose from the...

Goel pleads guilty in Galleon case

Posted on February 09, 2010
Rajiv Goel, a former Intel Capital director who was arrested in San Jose, California, last October, pleaded guilty on Monday to fraud in the Galleon insider trading case. He told a New York court that hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam...

New CA Toyota suit links crash to throttle system

Posted on February 08, 2010
The family of a woman killed in the crash of her Toyota Camry has filed suit against the automaker, claiming the crash was caused by faulty electronics. The suit says Toyota's electronic "drive-by-wire" throttle system caused the car's sudden acceleration...

Lewis Brisbois announces new partners

Posted on February 08, 2010
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced the election of 29 associates to the partnership last week. Among them: Jeanne Bawa and Matthew Walker are based in the San Bernardino office. Ms. Bawa specializes in the defense of workers' compensation....

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