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General News
Friday, December 13, 2024 |
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U.S. Behavioral Health Plan, California is accused of denying plaintiff Ryan Matlock's addiction rehabilitation coverage in contravention of his doctor's assessment. After his treatment stopped, he overdosed and died. The company succeeded in getting the case to arbitration. |
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Friday, December 13, 2024 |
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Los Angeles judge previously denied an anti-SLAPP motion from Warner Bros. on the condition that Dan Schneider submit a declaration denying the claims of the documentary "Quiet on Set" under penalty of perjury, which he has now done. |
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Friday, December 13, 2024 |
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President-elect Donald Trump has said little about the specifics of how he would carry out the promised largest deportation effort in U.S. history. But immigration experts say it would be nearly impossible to execute without some critical assistance, particularly from jails and prisons. |
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Friday, December 13, 2024 |
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California's card rooms lost a costly legislative fight this year as they sought to kill a bill that would allow their competitors, tribal casinos, to sue them. |
General News
Thursday, December 12, 2024 |
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Authorities uncovered many cases involving victims who paid thousands of dollars for immigration services that were never delivered. |
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Thursday, December 12, 2024 |
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The motion followed a unanimous jury verdict in October for a plaintiffs' class who claimed Cognizant - founded in India - had corporate practices in place that terminated their job applications because they were not of Indian descent. |
General News
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 |
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Former attorney Tom Girardi does not remember anything about his month-long jury trial or guilty verdict, his counsel claimed in a sentencing position brief filed Friday. |
General News
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 |
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San Diego County Superior Court Judge Rebecca S. Kanter, a longtime federal prosecutor, was nominated to fill the vacancy left by Senior U.S. District Judge William Q. Hayes. |
General News
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 |
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Despite contentions from the former agent, Lorenzo Robert Savage III, that McLane Bednarski & Litt LLP partner David S. McClane included bad faith allegations against him based on a purported friendship with then-attorney Tom Girardi, the judge found McLane and his client had a reasonable basis to pursue the claims. |
General News
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 |
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Attorneys for the hospitals claim Molina Healthcare's payments were not "reasonable and customary," the standard applied when calculating out of contract costs for patient care. |
General News
Monday, December 9, 2024 |
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Gen Z's "desire to do social good" and mistrust of large corporations makes them likely to rule in favor of plaintiffs in cases involving employment law or personal injury, attorneys say. |
General News
Monday, December 9, 2024 |
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Most experts agree that a light regulatory touch in internet businesses that was envisioned by the Clinton administration and then largely modeled by governments around the world was crucial to the creation of the online world that we live in today. But they also say that approach is unlikely to be adopted for the AI generation for reasons both political and economic. |
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Friday, December 6, 2024 |
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A former Northrop Grumman worker claims the aerospace giant required off-the-clock work and denied its employees proper breaks. |
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Friday, December 6, 2024 |
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Kaedian LLP partner Katherine C. McBroom and Los Angeles attorney Ian M. Wallach filed a federal civil complaint against those involved in their client's arrest in San Bernardino County and five-year prosecution. |
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Thursday, December 5, 2024 |
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In denying his bid for a new trial on the grounds his mental competency had deteriorated during the proceedings, the judge focused on how he presented himself when he voluntarily testified as the last witness in his defense. |
General News
Thursday, December 5, 2024 |
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The California Department of Education "violated the mandate" of the Education Code with its denial of funding to a Los Angeles charter school, Judge James C. Chalfant wrote. |
General News
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 |
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In his Nov. 25 ruling, Judge Jonathan L. Rosenbloom found that Melya Kaplan used millions of dollars from the trust for personal benefit and her non-profit, Voice for the Animals. The funds were used to buy property and pay rent, among other things, the ruling said. |
General News
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 |
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The use of tracking codes by Meta and Google meant those companies received identifying information about patients using AIDS Healthcare foundation's websites, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles. |
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 |
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Sentinel Peak Resources says the bill's author intended to target any "low production well" in California that was within 3,200 feet of a sensitive receptor. But in August, AB 2716 was amended to focus solely on the Inglewood Field in the Baldwin Hills Conservancy. |
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 |
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The settlement brings to a close years of litigation between the company and women who said they were systematically paid less than their male counterparts. |
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Monday, December 2, 2024 |
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The rock singer, whose real name is Brian Warner, sued actress Evan Rachel Wood in 2022 over public allegations of abuse made by the actress and her associate, Ilma Gore. |
General News
Monday, December 2, 2024 |
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In October, City Administrative Officer Matthew W. Szabo released a report indicating that the city has exceeded its planned expenditures for the current year by $215.96 million, with the largest overage attributed to escalating liability claims. |
General News
Monday, December 2, 2024 |
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"The case has statewide implications because the court rulings allowed local government to evade the debt limit law by agreeing to pay the debt in full, after being caught violating the Constitution," Michael J. Aguirre said. |
General News
Friday, November 29, 2024 |
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The jury found that the school had been negligent in its supervision of the student on the playground. |
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024 |
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Advocates on both sides of the legal and political divide have accused each other of flipping Title IX on its head when it comes to the issue of allowing transgender athletes to compete in women's sports. |
General News
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 |
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Heard's insurer had not breached its duty to defend the actress in her defamation dispute with ex-husband Johnny Depp. |
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Monday, November 25, 2024 |
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A trade secrets complaint accuses the executives of taking the business to their new employer, BMO Wealth Management. |
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Monday, November 25, 2024 |
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Alyssa D. Bell, who represents Mark Ridley-Thomas, told a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel that her client was trying to avoid the appearance of nepotism, but said his actions do not support a bribery conviction. |
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Monday, November 25, 2024 |
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Attorneys representing the VA in a dispute with homeless veterans have pointed to department officials' testimony before a congressional committee to bolster its claims that budget constraints would limit its ability to construct housing in West LA. |
General News
Monday, November 25, 2024 |
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The groups argue that the project will undermine the state's climate goals and grow the county's polluting oil and gas industry. They also claim that the proposed site won't work because it is full of old wells that will leak carbon back into the atmosphere. The project is one of six carbon storage facilities California Resources Corporation has planned for the Central Valley. |
General News
Friday, December 13, 2024 |
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Masterson, known for roles in the TV sitcoms "That 70s Show" and "The Ranch," was found guilty by a jury on two counts of rape following a retrial in May 2023. |
General News
Thursday, December 12, 2024 |
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A federal judge Tuesday temporarily blocked what would be the biggest grocery store merger in U.S. history, siding with the Federal Trade Commission in its lawsuit seeking to halt the deal. |
General News
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 |
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While the two defendants had tried to promote the Loop Industries stock and keep values afloat, there was no evidence that they had lied, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant said when granting motions to dismiss the indictments. |
General News
Monday, December 9, 2024 |
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The complaints state that the company's founders knew they would never be able to deliver homes for resale to the plaintiffs when they took thousands of dollars in franchise fees. |
General News
Friday, December 6, 2024 |
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Sober living facility Ohio House failed in its disparate treatment claim targeting Costa Mesa's zoning ordinances. |
General News
Thursday, December 5, 2024 |
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Nathan Hochman said he rejects extreme policies on both sides of the pendulum, such as mass incarceration and "decarceration" policies "that predetermine that certain crimes and certain criminals would not be prosecuted without a regard to the facts of the law." |
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 |
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The company's attorneys, who asked the judge to reverse the jury's October verdict, filed a brief Friday replying to the plaintiffs' opposition to a motion for judgement according to law. |
General News
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 |
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U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia found Temu's arbitration agreement is reasonably enforced, and he stayed the case pending arbitration, with the exception of the plaintiffs' request for public injunctive relief. |
General News
Friday, November 29, 2024 |
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The agent says a costume designer had no cause to include him in a federal lawsuit that primarily targets Erika Girardi, an entertainer, simply because the agent was purportedly friends with then-attorney Tom Girardi. |
General News
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 |
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In the multidistrict lawsuit that was initiated in 2015, StarKist Co. and several related companies were accused of fixing the price of packaged tuna products. A partial $16.2 million settlement was reached in 2022 between defendants Chicken of the Sea International and its parent company. |