Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 11/19/08

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... Again: 33% RPS by 2020 and Streamlined Renewable Energy Permitting in California - Sacramento attorney Allison Cook of Stoel Rives on the firm's blog, Renewable + Law Digital Copyright Questions Deserve Answers - First Amendment authority Richard Kaplar on ... ACS Blog California's Prop. 8 and the Fight for Equality. - Minneapolis lawyer Gavin Craig on his Twin Cities Business Litigation Blog What Employers Need to Know About the New FMLA Regulations - Part II - Hartford attorney Daniel A. Schwartz ...
November 19, 2008 11:21 pm
... and Provide workers' compensation. You'll recognize this quote from yesterday's post: "Our efforts are directed at illegally operating businesses as part of the underground economy," said California Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet. "These illegal operations have a negative impact ... provide the protection workers are legally afforded, and have an unfair advantage over competitors who do follow the law." Exploited farm workers are a good political subject matter. Sacramento notices those, too.
November 19, 2008 03:00 am
... with the commissioner's office and Provide workers' compensation. "Our efforts are directed at illegally operating carwash businesses as part of the underground economy," said California Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet. "These illegal operations have a negative ... an unfair advantage over competitors who do follow the law." For some reason, car wash owners aren't producing the kind of jobs, or campaign donations, that show up on the radar in Sacramento. That, and they are easy pickings for ...
November 17, 2008 03:00 pm
... Charlie Brown. Well this morning the lawyer for Brown's Republican opponent, Tom McClintock, called to mention that he's a little busy too. "This is what we in the business call harvest season," said Ben Davidian, a Sacramento elections lawyer who chaired the Fair Political Practices Commission between 1991 and 1995. Actually, Davidian was chatting while driving to meet Churchwell. The two are former colleagues at the FPPC and they ...
November 14, 2008 10:21 pm
... intellectual property produced with the support of public funds. The Act gives universities, small businesses, and non-profit organizations the right to inventions developed through research funded ... See National Conference of State Legislatures, State Embryonic and Fetal Research Laws: Stem Cell Research, Jan. 2008. (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, ... 2008). 19 Id. 20 Governor Vetoes California Stem Cell Bill, Sacramento Bus. J., Sept. 29, 2008. 21 Mullin, supra note 4. ...
November 14, 2008 04:58 pm
... 't have to shell out hundreds of dollars for something I hope I never use, but it is the law. Minimum policies are usually $15K/$30K in California. This type doesn't cost much, but when it is necessary to pinch every penny to stay in your home, keep business open, or fill the gas tank, it becomes a burden. I know better than to get ... occurred the day before Ms. Crisol was struck. Aman Kumar Khanna was broadsided in Sacramento. There wasn't much information at first, but the picture slowly came ...
November 13, 2008 06:23 pm
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November 11, 2008 07:09 pm
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November 6, 2008 12:07 am
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November 5, 2008 12:21 am
... California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. ... a wide margin. This past week, 25 of the new class actions alleged labor law claims, representing 47% of the total number of new class actions filed. The only other categories that satisfied the 10% threshold involved class action lawsuits alleging unfair business practice claims, which include false advertising claims, with 12 new filings ( ...
November 1, 2008 02:48 pm
California is attempting to revive its anti-violent-video-game law in a federal appeals court. During a hearing in Sacramento, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was scheduled to review a San Jose federal judge's 2007 ruling finding the law violates the First Amendment. Read the article: MercuryNews.com
October 29, 2008 05:20 pm
... play the same dirty game, or change the rules so that districts are drawn fairly. If you'd like politicians in Sacramento (Democratic today, Republican tomorrow) to decide who California sends to the House of Reps, vote no on 11. If you'd like ... . PROPOSITION Q: Payroll expense tax: Yes Require law, accounting and other partnership firms to pay payroll tax based on annual compensation partners receive and increase the number of small businesses that are exempted from paying the tax PROPOSITION R: ...
October 27, 2008 06:34 pm

Blawg Review #183

(The UCL Practitioner)
... my polling place when I vote because that's considered "electioneering." Bakersfield-based Terrence T. Egland of the California Business Bankruptcy Blog reported at the end of August that nearly one million bankruptcy cases had been filed in the ... of Philadelphia/Chicago has already declared Obama the winner. I am cautiously optimistic.) Dale C. Campbell of the Sacramento-based IP Law Blog gives us a summary of the presidential candidates' positions on intellectual property rights (to the extent ...
October 27, 2008 07:00 am
... California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. We ... a wide margin. This past week, 23 of the new class actions alleged labor law claims, representing 59% of the total number of new class actions filed. The only other category that satisfied the 10% threshold involved class action lawsuits alleging unfair business practice claims, which include false advertising claims, with 9 new filings ( ...
October 25, 2008 02:37 pm

Legal News - LexBlogosphere:10/21/08

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... In The North Carolina Supreme Court - Greensboro attorney Mack Sperling of Brooks Pierce in his blog, the North Carolina Business Litigation Report Impact of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 on Executive Compensation Issues - The blogging lawyers and attorneys at Sheppard Mullin on their Corporate Securities Law Blog Employer Alert: San Francisco Minimum Wage Increase - Sacramento lawyer Robin E. Weideman of Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger in the ...
October 22, 2008 01:08 am
... California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. We ... which time 50 new class action lawsuits were filed. Generally labor law class action complaints top the list of the new class action filings by a wide margin. ... other category that satisfied the 10% threshold involved class action lawsuits alleging unfair business practice claims, which include false advertising claims, with 8 new filings ( ...
October 18, 2008 01:40 pm

5 Year-old dies in Tragic but Avoidable Accident

(Sacramento Personal Injury Lawyer)
... on the adults around them to ensure their safety and so California decided to put common sense into law. It's strictly a physics lesson, a body in motion will stay in motion until something interrupts it. It may not ... for death or injury to person or property resulting from a negligent or wrongful act or omission in the operation of the motor vehicle, in the business of the owner or otherwise, by any person using or operating the same with the permission, express or implied, of the owner." The ...
October 16, 2008 12:13 pm
... state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. We ... wide margin. This again proved to be true. During the past week, 21 of the new labor law class actions, representing an incredible 78% of the total number of new class actions ... category that satisfied the 10% threshold involved class action lawsuits alleging unfair business practice claims, which include false advertising claims, with 5 new filings ( ...
October 11, 2008 02:46 pm

NLRB Law Memo 10/04/2008

(NLRB Law Memo)
... Union, making the two challenged ballots outcome-determinative. The Board adopted the administrative law judge's decision with certain footnote clarifications. Thus, the Board adopted the judge's ... had broken off relations with the Union due to an economic dispute with the Union's business manager, Gene Massey, and the Respondent's owner testified that he would ... alleged violation of Section 8(a)(1) and (3). Hearing at Sacramento on July 18, 2006. Adm. Law Judge Jay R. Pollack issued his decision ...
October 4, 2008 09:12 pm
... California state and federal courts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. We ... this past week was no exception. During the past week, 21 of the new labor law class actions, representing 62% of the total number of new class actions filed. ... other category that satisfied the 10% threshold involved class action lawsuits alleging unfair business practice claims, which include false advertising claims, with 8 new filings ( ...
October 4, 2008 02:14 pm
 
 

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