Late Summer 2010 Hearing Will Determine. In our December 20, 2009 post, we discussed the situation of jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who is stage front and center of alleged Ponzi scheme charges relating to now-defunct, Houston-based Stanford Financial Group. We now have an update. As reported by Juan A. Lozano in […]
In Your Face . . . Last month, an Orange County Superior Court jury decided against the mother of 7-year-old daughter (Kristen Spears) who sued Allergan, maker of Botox, for daughter’s death. The suit alleged that daughter died as a result of therapeutic Botox injections, apparently predicated on negligence and product liability theories.
For all of you football fans (or our normal readers—rah!), we can report that the University of California, Berkeley recent settled a four-year legal battle with Panoramic Hill Association over mainly noise issues involving use of the Cal Bear’s Memorial Stadium. (If you have not been there, it is certainly one of a
$5.5 Million Fee Award Affirmed on Appeal. In our June 7, 2009 post, we talked about a judgment that E*Trade had obtained against Deutsche Bank AG for around $17.5 million in damages. At that time, a hefty request was anticipated to be filed by E*Trade in an effort to recoup its attorney’s fees for
Also Mimics Our Mission Statement In the April 2010 California Lawyer, Anthony J. Oncidi, a partner in the L.A. office of Proskauer Rose and a participant in an Employment Roundtable contained in the April edition, had this to say about a recent decision: “I really like the state Supreme Court’s recent opinion in
In our February 15, 2010 post, we reported on U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real’s denial of fee recovery to McGuireWoods, class counsel in the BARBRI class action, based on a conflict of interest issue. Because this meant that the firm was denied claimed fees of over $12 million, the stakes were obviously
$22.5 Million Must Be Paid By Insurer for Enron-Related Cases. The New York Supreme Court Appellate Division recently affirmed a lower court’s ruling that Twin City Fire Insurance Company must cough up $22.5 million to cover a portion of JPMorgan Chase’s defense costs and settlements in a host of lawsuits related to Enron’s
Sex and Attorney’s Fees. Tom Kelley Studios, whose founder photographed the then 22-year-old Marilyn Monroe while she was laying nude on red velvet in May 1949, waged federal court litigation against Marilyn Monroe’s estate and CMG Worldwide, Inc, the estate’s licensing agent, over who has the publicity and distribution rights to the actress’ famed
In our October 19, 2009 post, we reported on the $20,000 sanctions award imposed against Orly Taitz by U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land in one of the “birther” cases. We can now report that the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the sanctions order, finding the arguments on appeal to be “unpersuasive” in
Even though facing a budget shortfall of more than $116 million, the City of San Jose did not get good news in litigation with COMPAC, the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce’s political action committee, over the constitutionality of the City’s $250 limit on individual contributions in raising money for campaign mailers (known
