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Delta pumping limits eased for two weeks

Posted on February 08, 2010
Federal Judge Oliver Wanger temporarily lifted pumping curbs designed to protect salmon migration in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta on Friday. The decision means that water agencies serving mostly the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California can run Delta pumps...

Toyota in Lieu's line of fire

Posted on February 08, 2010
Toyota is being scolded with many voices from many corners. Add Ted Lieu to the growing choir. Lieu, chairman of the state Assembly's Rules Committee as well as Democratic candidate for California attorney general, successfully pushed last Thursday for a...

Prosecutors recommending 20 years for 74-year-old convicted Chinese spy

Posted on February 08, 2010
Prosecutors will be seeking a 20-year prison sentence today for a Chinese-born engineer convicted of six federal counts of economic espionage. Dongfan "Greg" Chung was found guilty in July for keeping 300,000 pages of sensitive papers in his home. The...

SEC drops Broadcom suit

Posted on February 05, 2010
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voluntarily dropped its civil case against four former executives of Broadcom Corp., including its former general counsel, David Dull. Filed last year, the SEC's suit had named former CFO William Ruehle and co-founders...

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DOJ still unconvinced by GBS 2.0

Posted on February 05, 2010
Late yesterday afternoon, the Department of Justice said in a brief that it still had objections to the so-called Google Books Settlement, despite changes both parties have made. The DOJ, while commending both parties for their progress, still had copyright...

Luce Forward announces new San Diego leadership changes

Posted on February 05, 2010
Yesterday Luce Forward announced several leadership changes, including four in San Diego. Partner Dennis Doucette will now serve as co-chair of the firm's business/corporate practice group with Rick Frimmer. Dennis Doucette practices in corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and...

Jones Day announces new partners in CA

Posted on February 04, 2010
Yesterday Jones Day announced the addition of four new partners throughout California. Two are in San Diego. Patrick Elsevier is moving to Jones Day from Alston & Bird?s Atlanta office. He is an IP litigator specializing in biotechnology patent litigation...

Jury awards multimillion dollar verdict in malpractice suit

Posted on February 04, 2010
In Riverside Superior Court last Friday, a jury awarded an Arizona couple $16.5 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against Southern California neurosurgeon Christopher Pham. They found Pham negligent in treating Trent Hughes in 2003 for pain and tingling related...

Manatt names Shatz to partner in LA

Posted on February 04, 2010
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP announced yesterday that Benjamin Shatz has been elevated to partner. He is with their appellate practice group in their Los Angeles office. He is the Chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Appellate Court...

New Orrick partners in LA and Orange County

Posted on February 03, 2010
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today the admission of seven lawyers to the partnership, effective January 1, 2010. Two of them are based in California. Mark Mermelstein is in the Los Angeles office and Thomas J. Gray is in...

Retired 'gift card' judge censured by CJP

Posted on February 03, 2010
Yesterday the Commission on Judicial Performance censured retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brett C. Klein because of his handling of a class action against Windsor Fashions, Inc. The plaintiffs were suing the store or alleged violations of the Song-Beverly...

Class-action suit says Nutri-Grain bars not so Nutri

Posted on February 03, 2010
A class-action law suit filed Monday in San Diego accuses Kellogg's of false advertising, claiming that the company's Nutri-Grain bars actually contain trans-fats. In their ads, Kellogg's suggests that Nutri-Grain bars allow you to "Eat Better All Day" because they...

Civil rights groups sue Costa Mesa on behalf of day laborers

Posted on February 03, 2010
A pair of civil rights groups, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the ACLU of Southern California filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, challenging Costa Mesa's anti-solicitation ordinance that allegedly prevents day laborers...

Alcala delivers opening statement on his own behalf

Posted on February 02, 2010
The Orange County Register continues its coverage of the Rodney Alcala trial today. This morning, Alcala, who is defending himself against five murder charges, delivered an hour-long opening speech the OC Register called "rambling," in which he insisted he was...

Two new shareholders at Buchalter Nemer

Posted on February 02, 2010
Buchalter Nemer announced that Senior Counsel Mia S. Blackler and Of Counsel Scott O. Smith have been elected shareholders. Ms. Blackler is a member of the Firm's Litigation Practice Group in San Francisco where she focuses on commercial, real property,...

Travel sites duck occupancy taxes in LA

Posted on February 02, 2010
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl granted a request by Priceline.com Inc, Expedia Inc, Trip Network Inc, Orbitz LLC and Travelocity.com LP, Hotels.com LP and Hotwire Inc to invalidate $21.3 million in taxes, interest and penalties assessed by...

Former SEC attorney joins Foley & Lardner

Posted on February 02, 2010
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Clifford Hyatt has joined the firm as a partner in the Los Angeles office working in the Securities Enforcement & Litigation Practice. Prior to joining Foley, Hyatt was a partner and litigator with...

Privacy suit against CHP over Internet "death images" revived

Posted on February 02, 2010
Reversing a ruling dismissing invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence claims, the Fourth District Court of Appeal yesterday revived a suit against two California Highway Patrol officers who allegedly leaked grisly photos of an 18-year-old Orange...

Cal Supremes deny challenges to 'Jessica's Law'

Posted on February 01, 2010
Today a split California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 83, or "Jessica's Law," turning back constitutional challenges to the measure from four ex-convicts who argued that the law's provisions are "not rationally related to the harm voters were trying to prevent...

Local Presbyterian churches regain control of their property

Posted on February 01, 2010
Last Friday the Third District Court of Appeal reversed a ruling allowing two Sacramento-area Presbyterian churches to take their property with them as they left the national church. In an unpublished opinion, the court held that the trust in which...

Two new partners at Sheppard Mullin in LA

Posted on February 01, 2010
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP have announced the addition of Kelly C. Crabb and Richard W. Kopenhefer as partners in their Los Angeles office. Crabb joins the firm's Entertainment, Media & Technology practice and Kopenhefer joins Labor & Employment...

UC San Diego Law School, revisited

Posted on February 01, 2010
UC San Diego has wanted to build a law school for decades. A proposed merger with the California Western School of Law in the early '80s was rejected by administrators at UC, who claimed it would be unnecessary. But the...

Third time's a charm for Alvarez

Posted on February 01, 2010
A Fresno County Superior Court jury decided last Friday that it was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Jesse David Alvarez, who was accused of seriously wounding a woman while trying to kill her father in September...

Cal Supremes order 'Jessica's Law' under closer scrutiny

Posted on January 29, 2010
The California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a 2006 proposition known as "Jessica's Law" may violate constitutional guarantees of equal protection by indefinitely holding sexually violent predators in prison. The court said a fact-finding hearing must be held to determine...

Injunction signed against Garden Grove street gang

Posted on January 29, 2010
Orange County Superior Court signed a permanent injunction against the Hard Times street gang in Garden Grove. The District Attorney's office said this was the first such injunction in Orange County to name a gang as a defendant, as opposed...

Indie band article in Rolling Stone not 'transformed' by proximity to cigarette ads, rules Cal appeals

Posted on January 29, 2010
A unanimous three-justice panel at California's 1st District Court of Appeal dismissed a suit brought by a class of indie rockers that claimed the layout of a story featuring them in Rolling Stone made it look like the bands endorsed...

Pot initiative gets the signatures

Posted on January 29, 2010
Backers of the California Cannabis Initiative submitted its petitions yesterday to qualify for November's statewide ballot. According to a press release, the initiative received approximately 700,000 signatures, with names from every one of California's 58 counties...

Parole hearing for infamous 'Onion Field' killer

Posted on January 27, 2010
Gregory Powell, the gunman in the infamous "Onion Field" police killing, is up for parole today. He is 75 years old. Powell was convicted of the March 1963 kidnapping and execution of LAPD Officer Ian Campbell, famously documented in Joseph...

$22M for 29 class action lawsuits, agrees Ameriquest

Posted on January 27, 2010
Ameriquest has agreed to settle 29 class-action lawsuits alleging predatory lending. The group of subprime lenders has pledged $22 million to repay aggrieved borrowers and their lawyers. The agreement potentially affects 712,000 borrowers and covers loans as far back as...

Prosecution witness in Alcala trial certain of defendant/lawyer's guilt

Posted on January 27, 2010
There was some dramatic testimony yesterday in the Alcala case. Jackie Young, formerly of Huntington Beach, told Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy that she had seen Alcala at the beach shooting photos of two 12-year-old girls, one of whom was...

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