Law360, New York (March 9, 2017, 2:37 PM EST) — Los Angeles County sued state regulators in a California court on Wednesday demanding SoCalGas undertake further safety and environmental reviews before reopening a facility that was the site of the largest gas leak in U.S. history. In a complaint filed in California Superior Court, the […]
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Law360, New York (December 20, 2016, 2:38 PM EST) — Miller Barondess LLP has added a media, entertainment and intellectual property attorney who has served as general counsel for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corp. as of counsel in its Los Angeles office, the firm announced. Jay Rakow, a member of the Academy of Motion […]
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Ex-Production Co. Execs Say Insurer Abandoned Them In Suit By Kat Sieniuc Law360, New York (August 31, 2016, 8:49 PM ET) — Former executives of now defunct post-production studio Modern VideoFilm Inc. are suing its insurer, Argonaut Insurance Company, for abandoning them in a more than $77 million counter-fight against a hedge fund that ran the […]
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Photo by Dakota Smith: Attorney Skip Miller announces a lawsuit on behalf of Los Angeles County against SoCalGas at a news conference on Monday, July 25, 2016. By Dakota Smith/Los Angeles Daily News July 25, 2016 Los Angeles County filed a lawsuit Monday against Southern California Gas Company to try and force the utility to install […]
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By Emily Alpert Reyes April 21, 2016 The city of Los Angeles will pay $750,000 to settle a civil lawsuit brought by a woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by a Los Angeles police officer in the back of his car while his partner acted as a lookout. The City Council voted Wednesday to approve the […]
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P-Wave Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of The Gores Group (a Los Angeles–based global private equity firm) sued for breach of a reseller agreement in international arbitration proceedings against two large telecommunication infrastructure companies and their parent company based in Lebanon. The Arbitrator issued a final award on March 22, 2016 awarding our client (P-Wave) over […]
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By Yvonne Villarreal March 11, 2016 Small TV programmer Herring Networks is suing AT&T, alleging the telecommunications company broke its agreement to carry two of Herring’s channels on DirecTV in return for the broadcaster’s support of the AT&T-DirectTV merger. Herring’s lawsuit, which seeks at least $100 million, was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in […]
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January 31, 2016 While Santa Monica’s Surf Air is flying high with customers and investors, the airline’s success has left David Eyerly, the company’s co-founder and former chief operating officer, out in the cold. The 31-year-old Eyerly is fighting Surf Air and several of its investors in court, claiming he was the victim of a […]
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By Ted Johnson June 1, 2015 Modern VideoFilm founder Moshe Barkat has filed a lawsuit against Capital Corp., claiming that it took control of the post-production company, breached his contract, and fired him, and then retained Deloitte Corporate Restructuring Group, which ran the operation “into the ground.” The company’s content management system converted and filed […]
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By Michael Lipkin February 26, 2015 Communications between a lawyer for Steven Tyler and an “American Idol” representative over the Aerosmith rocker’s contract negotiations are not protected speech, a California appeals court ruled on Wednesday, reviving a management company’s $2 million suit alleging the attorney sabotaged its bid to get Tyler a more lucrative deal. The […]
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