Los Angeles will pay nearly $2 million to settle a lawsuit from a woman who was sexually assaulted by a pair of LAPD officers, the fourth such assault case L.A. has settled in recent years. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to spend up to $1.975 million to settle the case, the latest legal fallout surrounding Officers Luis […]
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By Cindy Chang, LA Times Staff Writer – Tuesday, January 8, 2019 – A woman who was sexually assaulted by two Los Angeles police officers will receive nearly $2 million from the city, according to an agreement filed in federal court on Monday. The settlement, which needs to be approved by the City Council, comes […]
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By Nathan Fenno, LA Times Reporter – Saturday, December 8, 2018 – The land along West Century Boulevard in Inglewood where the Clippers plan to build an arena is easy to miss, a bleak stretch of fenced-off vacant lots near a fast-food restaurant selling fried chicken and motel offering simple rooms for $80 a night. […]
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By Matt Hamilton and Harriet Ryan, LA Times Reporters – Tuesday, December 4, 2018 – USC vowed to improve accountability and transparency in the wake of a scandal earlier this year in which the longtime campus gynecologist was accused of sexual misconduct against hundreds of students. A dispute in USC’s Marshall School of Business is […]
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By Kelcee Griffis, Law360 Staff Writer – Monday, November 19, 2018 – The Ninth Circuit on Monday said Charter Communications Inc. can’t use its First Amendment freedom as a cable provider to escape a claim that it refused a carriage deal with an African-American-owned production firm due to racial bias. The three-judge panel’s published opinion […]
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By Blaise Scemama, Daily Journal Staff Writer–Tuesday, November 6, 2018 — A Los Angeles County jury awarded a private jet charter company that had not yet made a profit $2.4 million in lost profits after a fueling and hangar company employee allegedly improperly parked a Cessna airplane, damaging it when it rolled into other aircraft […]
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By Emma Cueto, Law360 Staff Writer, Friday, October 26, 2018 – Law360 – A former Napoli Bern Ripka & Associates partner has won a California federal court’s sign-off on a $4 million award he won in arbitration over referral fees he claimed the now-defunct plaintiffs firm owed him. The court on Wednesday awarded Marc I. Willick […]
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By Skylar Dubelko, Daily Journal Staff Writer, Wednesday, October 24, 2018—Louis R. “Skip” Miller knows that, in litigation, size doesn’t matter. What matters is “the quality and ability of the lawyer,” Skip Miller said. “Because it’s just one-on-one when you’re in court. “Noting that, when a firm is trying to get a deal done, it needs […]
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By Billboard, 2018 Top Music Lawyers, Friday, October 19, 2018 SASHA FRID, 41 Attorney-at-law, Miller Barondess; University of California, Berkeley, School of Law LOUIS “SKIP” MILLER, 71 Attorney-at-law, Miller Barondess; University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law Following the death of Steely Dan’s Walter Becker in 2017, Miller moved on behalf of Donald Fagen to […]
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By Ralph Vartabedian, LA Times Reporter, Friday, October 5, 2018 – Toyota said Friday that it is recalling 2.4 million hybrid gas-electric cars, mostly Prius models, around the world to fix an electronic defect that causes the vehicles to suddenly lose power and could “increase the risk of a crash.” The recall in the U.S. […]
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