By Melissa Etehad, LA Times Staff Reporter, Wednesday, January 24, 2018 – A judge has dismissed a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by the former top attorney for Los Angeles County, who alleged that the Board of Supervisors removed him in retaliation for him raising concerns about alleged illegal activity committed by the board. L.A. County Superior Court […]
Read MoreBy James F. Peltz, Contact Reporter (May 23, 2017, 4:25 PM) | Los Angeles Times – An Orange County jury awarded $256.5 million to a former Southern California car dealer who alleged that Nissan’s financing arm forced him out of business as car sales plunged during the 2008-09 recession, the dealer’s lawyers announced Tuesday. The […]
Read MoreLOS ANGELES — Attorneys for Patron Tequila and a former company manager told a judge today that they settled the executive’s lawsuit that alleged he was owed more than $70 million in unpaid bonuses before he was fired. Ajendra Singh sued Patron Spirits International Inc. and company co-founder John Paul DeJoria, maintaining he was largely […]
Read MoreJudge Tosses Suit Over Band Name Trademark Against UMG By David McAfee Law360, Los Angeles (April 25, 2014, 4:13 PM ET) — A California federal judge on Thursday threw out and infringement suit brought against UMG Recordings Inc. by a man who claims to own the trademark “Aliados De La Sierra,” which is the name […]
Read MoreAfter more than three years of litigation, a large bank with over $50 billion in assets obtained a defense judgment in its favor. A California Superior Court Judge held the bank was not liable for fraudulent inducement following a two-week bench trial. The plaintiffs alleged that, in September 2008, the bank fraudulently induced them to […]
Read MoreJanuary 3, 2014 by Eriq Gardner Mötley Crüe and drummer Tommy Lee have prevailed in a strange lawsuit that proposed that a drum stunt used on the band’s 2011 tour was taken from an onstage “rollercoaster” proposal 20 years earlier. The plaintiff in the lawsuit was Howard Scott King, who claimed that he had come up […]
Read MoreIn a unanimous published decision, the California Court of Appeal held that the County of Los Angeles’s process for entering into “social program agreements” does not violate the Brown Act. Every year, the County enters into contracts with social service organizations that provide vital services to County residents. These programs feed the homeless, provide medical […]
Read MoreWe recently obtained summary judgment in favor of the County of Los Angeles and the individual Board of Supervisors in a high-profile taxpayer lawsuit that received extensive media coverage. The lawsuit alleged that the County’s top elected officials wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and violated the Brown Act in connection with the County’s budgeting process. The plaintiff’s […]
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