Calif.: radio host’s ageism not a civil rights violation
Tom Leykis’s highly successful Westwood One radio show is geared to reach men 25-34, an advertiser-coveted demographic. When Marty Ingels, a 67-year-old talent agent and former sitcom actor (1962′s I’m...
View ArticleCalif. court OKs countersuit in “shakedown” case
Just over a year ago, following numerous scandals about law firms’ filing of mass shakedown suits based on California’s s. 17200 unfair-competition law (UCL), the state’s voters curtailed somewhat the...
View ArticleHelp wanted (Calif. shakedown practice)?
Three years ago California’s notorious Trevor Law Group was found to be mass-mailing demand letters to small businesses alleging violations of the state’s ultra-liberal s. 17200 unfair business...
View ArticleUpdate: Calif. shakedowns
The New York Times “Small Business” section looks at how Garden Grove, Calif. liquor store owner Vinod Kapoor fought back when targeted by attorney Harpreet Brar, famed for his lawsuits demanding legal...
View ArticleN.H. jury: lawyer’s demand letters amounted to extortion
Now this could crimp the business plans of quite a few attorneys: A Manchester lawyer who threatened to sue a Concord salon for pricing haircuts differently for men and women and then took money to...
View ArticleDisbarment possible for Harpreet Brar
The mills of California lawyer discipline grind exceeding slow: five years after the scandal over Brar’s mass-mailing of extortionate demands to small businesses under the state’s unfair business...
View Article“Late filing syndrome”
That’s the explanation given by Charles J. O’Byrne’s lawyer for why his client didn’t file income taxes for year after year. I’ve never tried that one myself, but then, I’m not the chief aide to the...
View ArticleMarch 31 roundup
Litigation over high-tech products is rife, but major benefits for consumers can be hard to discern [Low End Mac] “United settles with female ex-pilot who found p0rn in cockpits” [Obscure Store]...
View ArticleUpdate: “Apple wins appeal over alleged iPod hearing loss”
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a 2008 lower court ruling throwing out the class action against Apple [Reuters, Food Liability Law, earlier here and here]. More: California Civil Justice. Tweet Tags: Apple,...
View ArticleSymposium on California Prop 64
In 2004 Californians voted to curtail s. 17200, the state’s distinctively liberal “unfair competition” law which had brought into existence an entrepreneurial sector of lawyers to sue businesses even...
View ArticleCalifornia “climate science truth” bill would revive lapsed statutes of...
An extraordinary bill in the California legislature, promoted as making it easier to sue fossil fuel companies over their involvements in public debate, would lift the four-year statute of limitations...
View ArticleUnion sues against term it negotiated
Thanks to reader J.H. for flagging Alcala v. Santa Fe Rubber Products, from the California courts last fall: “A very strange case — Union demands 20 minute lunch breaks (instead of the required 30),...
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