California’s MICRA Reforms Figure Into National Debate on Health Care Issues. Dan Walters, a columnist with The Sacramento Bee, has penned an interesting column for the November 29, 2009 edition indicating how attorney’s fees may play a role in the national health care debate going on in Congress right now. His article is […]
Orange County Register So Reports In Recent Article. As reported by Cindy Carcamo in her article “Records detail nudity fight” in the November 27, 2009 edition of The Orange County Register, state officials (mainly from the California Department of Parks and Recreation) spent more than $42,000 in attorney’s fees battling a group of nudists
U.S. District Judge Guilford’s Ruling Puts Fee Recovery in Doubt. As reported in two articles in today’s The Orange County Register (Larry Welborn’s article “Jaramillo won’t be paid by county” and Frank Mickadeit’s column “George’s lawyers: $845K or $0?”), a recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford may mean that Mr.
Local Government Legal Spending For 2007 and 2008 Fiscal Years. As reported by Teri Sforza in the November 13, 2009 edition of The Orange County Register, California’s Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA) has released its study of local government spending on litigation for the fiscal years 2007 and 2008. The study tallied money
November 9, 2009 Tentative Was to Deny $378,519 in Total Requested Fees. In our category “In the News,” we have been following the costs and fees development in the Farnan-Corbett First Amendment controversy arising out of south Orange County. Here is the next development. Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge James Selna of
Should We Add a New Category to Our Sidebar? Once again, we consider (but resist) the need to add a new category to our sidebar, “celebrities and attorney’s fees.” As reported in a November 5, 2009 update on the Daily News Wire Services, Academy Award-winning actor John Voight as well as Hank and
Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Stand To Be Awarded One-Third of Final Recovery Up to An Estimated $28 Million Ceiling. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, recently won approval of a settlement of over 30 federal lawsuits alleging the retailer did not pay all required wages to workers. The settlement, which was blessed on November 2,
She Also Wants Another $500,000 for An Accountant. Jamie and Frank McCourt (with Frank or Frank or Jamie being owner/owners of the L.A. Dodgers) have been in the news a lot lately. Jamie McCourt has hired well-known attorney Bert Fields, while Frank McCourt has retained equally well-known attorney Marshall Grossman as the divorce proceeding
School District Has Already Spent $49,960 In Fees Over Three-Month Period. As reported in the Octdober 30, 2009 online edition of the The Orange County Register (in a story penned by Scott Martindale), the Capistrano Unified School District has hired well-known election law attorney Phillip Greer to aid its efforts to delay the scheduled
Follows on the Heels of Sanctions by Georgia Federal Judge. In our October 19, 2009 post, we reported on a Georgia federal judge’s imposition of sanctions on local Orange County attorney Orly Taitz in a “birther” lawsuit challenging President Obama’s ineligibility for the presidency. Now, we can report that U.S. District Judge David
