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
Costs Awarded to Capistrano Unified School District and California Teacher Association; Separate Fee Motions Pending Against Nonprofit. In our September 18, 2009 post, we chronicled the end of the lawsuit brought by Murrieta-based Advocates for Faith & Freedom, a Christian legal group representing student Chad Farnan on a pro bono basis, where high school
District Judge Clay D. Land Issues Sanction in 43-Page Opinion. Mission Viejo attorney/dentist Orly Taitz—who heads the "birther" movement (trying to oust President Obama from the presidency based on the allegation that he did failed to produce a satisfactory birth certificate)—has been in the news frequently for her filing of federal court actions on the
In a long-running dispute between the Estate of James Joyce (James Joyce being the celebrated author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake) and Stanford University Consulting Professor Carol Shloss, the Estate finally agreed to pay Professor Schloss $240,000 in attorney’s fees she incurred in a successful copyright action against the estate. The dispute arose
The Orange County Register Obtains Final Numbers from City of Irvine. We have reported in past posts—see our July 1 and August 22, 2009 posts–about Great Park board members Christina Shea and Steven Choi’s lawsuit to obtain documents about the search for a Great Park CEO. The final attorney’s fees tab is in!
Horse Trail Blocking Incident Draws Criminal Sentence As Well As Fee Assessment. Yorba Linda couple Todd and Deborah Kopit were in the local Orange County news after being found guilty of blocking a horse trail behind their home. The Kopits had claimed that the wooden gates were necessary to protect their property. The
