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In The News . . . . City of Costa Mesa Will Not Reimburse Police Union For Legal Fees In Righeimer/Mensinger Lawsuit Against Police Association, Its Former Law Firm, And Private Investigator

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       Quite a bit of press and public fallout has happened so as to result in Costa Mayor Jim Righeimer and Councilman Steve Mensinger suing the Costa Mesa Police Officers’ Association, its former law firm Lackie, Dammeier, McGill & Ethir, and private investigator Chris Lanzillo in August 2013 after Mr. Lanzillo followed Mr. Righeimer […]

Class Actions/In The News . . . . Chief Judge Kozinski And Wife Object To Proposed Settlement In Nissan Leaf Class Action

Cases: Class Actions, In The News

  Objection Centers on Plaintiffs’ Counsel Allegedly Selling Out For Fees.      As reported both in The Daily Journal and ABA Journal (on-line version), Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Curt of Appeals, and his wife, Marcy Tiffany, filed objections to a proposed settlement in a class action alleging defects in

Arbitration/In the News . . . . Starbucks To Pay Kraft Foods Spin-Off $2.76 Billion Based On Adverse Arbitration Award

Cases: Arbitration, In The News

  $527 Million of the Award Was Prejudgment Interest/Attorney’s Fees.      In March 2011, Starbucks prematurely ended a contract with Kraft Foods which was allowing the food company to sell bagged Starbucks coffee in grocery stores. Earlier, Kraft rejected Starbucks’ $750 million offer to end the arrangement. The matter went to arbitration, with Starbucks countering

In The News . . . . Dog Owners Rejoice — Lawyer Awarded $50,418.75 In Attorney’s Fees And Costs In Civil Rights Suit Involving Wrongful Confiscation of 3 Dogs

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       As reported by Martha Neil in her September 25, 2013 post in the on-line version of the ABA Journal, plaintiffs’ lawyer Terry Silva was awarded $50,418.75 in attorney’s fees and costs (including $1,743.75 for “fees on fees”) in a successful civil rights suit she and other plaintiffs pursed since 2010 over the wrongful

In The News Post . . . . National Jurist Announces List of 2012 Best-Value Private Law Schools And Toronto Lawyer Abandoning Ferrari To Get To Court On Time Gets Generous Deal On New Ferrari From Manufacturer

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  National Jurist List of Best-Value Private Law Schools — 2012 Graduates.      According to a September 9, 2013 post by Debra Cassens Weiss in the on-line version of the ABA Journal, National Jurist has announced its list of top best-value private law schools, in order of priority and with assigned “grades” in relation to

In The News . . . . Four Iraqi Prisoners Losing Abu Ghraib Torture Case Against CACI Ordered To Pay Routine Costs To Winning Defendant–Over $14,000

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       As reported in a September 6, 2013 post at Huff Post Politics, a federal judge has ordered 4 Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib to pay over $14,000 in routine court costs after losing a case against defense contractor CACI, which obtained dismissal of the federal case against it based on immunity grounds. (CACI

News . . . . Plaintiffs’ Class Counsel $13 Million Fee Award In NVIDIA Defective Graphics Processing Units Case Is Sustained On Appeal And Recent Study Dissects Nature of Neighborhood Property/Other Disputes

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  Ninth Circuit Affirms Fee Award to NVIDIA Class Counsel.      In Nakash v. NVIDIA Corp., Case No. 11-15186 (9th Cir. Sept. 4, 2013) (not for publication; per curiam), a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed a $13 million fee award to plaintiffs’ class action counsel in a defective computer component case. In a

In The News . . . . Orange County Water District Spending And Getting Hit With Attorney’s Fees In North and South Basin Contamination Cases; Court Says Nix To Fees For Chix

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  Orange County Water District North Basis and South Basis Lawsuits.      Andrew Galvin, in a comprehensive article in the September 6, 2013 edition of The Orange County Register, details the Orange County Water District’s lawsuits–called the “north basin” suit and “south basin” suits–brought to obtain money to remediate contamination in certain groundwater acquifers in

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