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In The News . . . . City of San Jose Suffers Adverse Fee/Costs Award Of $441,000 To Political Action Committee Challenging Constitutionality Of Individual Campaign Contributions

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     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 […]

In the News . . . . State Bar And Criminal Authorities Are Cracking Down On Attorney Residential Loan Modification Activities

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Co-contributor Mike Has A Matthew Bender Post on New Statutes Relating to Same.      The California Attorney General and California State Bar are cracking down on attorneys who collect advance fees for residential loan modification services. The California Bar Journal is replete with several articles and announcements in the last few editions indicating that the

In The News . . . . Class Action Attorneys For Black Farmers May Get A Substantial Fee Recovery

Cases: Class Actions, In The News

$1.25 Billion Settlement Yields Potential Fee Recovery of 4 to 7 %      The U.S. Government announced a tentative $1.25 billion ($1,250,000,000) settlement to resolve a racial discrimination action by black farmers who were denied access to USDA loan programs and denied participation in an earlier class action settlement. Although still subject to congressional authorization

In The News . . . . Natomas Unified School District Has Spent $454,878.03, And Rising, Against Developers, Attorneys, Real Estate Broker, and Appraiser For Claimed Purchase of Price-Inflated Property

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   School District Would Hand the Property Back.      To show you how expensive modern litigation happens to be, take the case of the Natomas Unified School District. (Natomas is one of the remaining undeveloped communities in the northwest Sacramento, CA area.)      A grand jury report in May 2009 alleged that the District paid

In The News . . . . Lawyers Having Conflicts With Class Representatives Over Incentive Payments Denied Fees In Entirety in BAR/BRI Settlement

Cases: Class Actions, Cases: Ethics, In The News

  Nonconflicted Attorneys Get Award of Fees; Conflicted Attorneys Do Receive Reimbursement of Over $1.2 Million in Expenses.      In our April 26, 2009 post, we reported on Rodriguez v. West Publishing Co., 563 F.3d 948 (9th Cir. 2009), where class representative incentive agreements creating conflicts of interests required reconsideration of fee awards to both

In The News . . . . Irvine Has Incurred About $1.3 Million In Irvine Business Complex “Vision Plan” Development Fights

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     As reported by Sean Emery in “Irvine legal fees in development fight run $1.3 million” (available for reading in the February 6, 2010 edition of The Orange County Register), the City of Irvine has incurred about $1.3 million in various legal fights over the Irvine Business Complex “vision plan”—an urban revitalization project near the

In The News . . . . Spammer Gets Whacked With Attorney’s Fees And O.C. Treasurer-Tax Collector Chriss Street Has Spent A Lot of Fees In Pending Bankruptcy Litigation Case

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Tagged.com Wins Large Default Judgment Against Spammer, Plus Attorney’s Fees.      Social networker Tagged.com has won a $151,975 default judgment against Erik Vogeler, who is alleged to have spammed thousands of Tagged members with unsolicited links to an adult dating website. A district judge in the Northern District of California ordered the default judgment, as

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