... death in conservative California counties, particularly in the southern part of the state, according to a Bee analysis of recent data from the state attorney general's office. From 1998 to 2007, prosecutors obtained about one death penalty conviction for every 100 murders statewide ... Orange County, the rate was twice as high; in Riverside County, it was three times as high. At the same time, San Francisco and San Mateo counties haven't sentenced anyone to death in 15 years (with the exception of ...
July 3, 2009 08:03 am
... , Inc., known as Hickory Hills Country Club. Under the decree, the defendants are required pay $590,000, including attorneys' fees, to a class of women who endured a sexually hostile work environment and retaliation, and, in addition, up to ... agreed to settle an age discrimination suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a longtime San Francisco State University Lecturer for $50,000 and other relief, the agency announced today. This settlement resolved the ...
July 3, 2009 06:28 am
... frequency of particularly heinous killings. The web version also contains brief interviews with: Interview with Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco Has that changed the number of death penalty prosecutions?: Every case is different. I don't know ... (death penalty prosecutions) ... The people here have a very different view of public safety than the people in San Francisco. Interview with ACLU researcher Natasha Minsker. How much does the political leanings of juries come into this?: I ...
July 2, 2009 03:10 pm
... awarded a mere $792. Excluding pro se cases, claimants who went to hearing before San Francisco arbitrators in the first half of 2009 with an attorney prevailed 37.5% of the time. This is well below the national average reported by FINRA. According to ... by claimants who did win. After weeding out claims with questionable or uncertain damage claims, I found that claimants who won in San Francisco received awards that averaged 59% of their claimed damages during the first half of 2009. Choosing the ...
July 1, 2009 04:16 pm

News Coverage of the California Hearing

(StandDown Texas Project)
... deliver their criticism of the state's execution procedure. Some 250 people filled the auditorium a short walk from the Capitol. Attorneys for Stockton's Michael Angelo Morales prompted the hearing, winning a ruling on appeal last year to make the state put ... before adopting it. Morales is the next California prisoner in line for execution. Paul Elias' AP report is via the San Francisco Chronicle as, "Public comments on Calif lethal injection proposal." After Tuesday, the state will have up to a ...
July 1, 2009 08:37 am
... the same question - figuring if there was ever a case that could be disposed of by motions, it was this one. But, according to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Walker said the case raises numerous issues that may need to be considered at a trial ... including the history of discrimination against gays and lesbians and the intent and effects of the state constitutional amendment. Attorney Brian Raum of the Alliance Defense Fund, representing sponsors of Prop. 8, said he sees no need for a ...
July 1, 2009 06:37 am
A Recorder Roundtable on Prop. 64 has been scheduled for July 22, 2009 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. I will be one of the panelists, along with Will Stern of Morrison & Foerster (author of the Rutter Group's UCL practice guide and, of course, Prop. 64), Reed Kathrein of Hagens Berman, and Trent Norris of Arnold & Porter. Steven Pressman of GC California, a Recorder ...
July 1, 2009 06:00 am
06/30/09 Liberty Counsel press release: San Francisco, CA - Today Liberty Counsel is filing a motion to intervene in the recent lawsuit against California's Marriage Amendment (Prop 8). Attorney David Boies and former Solicitor General Ted Olson filed a federal lawsuit against California's marriage amendment, claiming that it violates the U.S. Constitution. Liberty Counsel is representing the Campaign for California Families (CCF). In November, ProtectMarriage.com ...
July 1, 2009 05:33 am

Google Worldwide Alerts: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Crime, Prisons

(New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog)
... . As the Bribery Bill currently stands, ... See all stories on this topic Calif. death row foes claim state could save $1 billion if capital ... CorrectionsOne - San Francisco,CA,USA A study this year by the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation suggested that the savings from ... : Criminal ... By Kenneth Vercammen NJ Law Blog "Kenneth Vercammen is a Middlesex County trial attorney who has published 130 articles in national and New Jersey publications on Criminal Law and litigation ...
July 1, 2009 01:59 am
... highway. In this video while a highway worker sweeps the shoes from one lane of travel traffic just keeps on going by heading to work. San Diego, California - December 2008 - The lawyers at Estey and Bomberger again bring us news of a pedestrian accident in the Core-Columbia district of San Francisco. The woman was struck while crossing the street by a vehicle turning left; which brings up another point about safety. Even when drivers stop ...
June 30, 2009 07:38 am
San Francisco defense attorney Steven Gruel has joined the ranks of those angling to replace Northern District U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello. Gruel, a former federal prosecutor, said today that he submitted an application to Sen. Barbara Boxer ... Boxer's office told him they were just beginning to interview candidates. Since leaving the Northern District U.S. attorney's office, Gruel has represented Los Angeles private detective Anthony Pellicano and San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew. - Evan Hill
June 29, 2009 06:13 pm
PITTSBURGH - A skilled San Francisco-based computer hacker who once sought to unite the cyber underworld under his benign rule pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges here ... the fraudulent charges on the cards at $86.4 million. But Butler's defense attorney told U.S. District Judge Maurice B. Cohill Jr. Monday that ... to the defense table to shake hands with the hacker, who smiled and nodded. Through his attorney, Butler released a two-paragraph statement following his plea. "Max Vision, known ...
June 29, 2009 01:46 pm
I just flew back from San Francisco. This last Friday & Saturday we had a fantastic group of attorneys for the first ever Rainmaker Retreat sponsored by the State Bar of California. The staff at the Bar was ... Aviva Cuyler from JDSupra.com who gave a great presentation on how to rapidly increase your internet platform by posting articles on their site. Attorneys are using JDSupra to rapidly boost traffic to their websites. This is a very powerful tool we will be using more frequently in the ...
June 29, 2009 07:29 am

1 Year Old Left Inside Car Dies in St. Augustine

(Jacksonville Personal Injury Blog)
... . Our hearts go out to the family and to the little girl who suffered so. Already this year there have been 12 wrongful deaths of children left inside a hot vehicle, reports Jan Null, a professor of Meteorology at San Francisco State University. Add this to 35 and 42 child deaths, in 2007 and 2006, due to hyperthermia or heat stroke. Hundreds have died over the last ten years and children can die in a hot car even when the ...
June 29, 2009 05:00 am

News from the San Francisco Social Secuirty field offices

(California Social Security Lawyer Blog)
Yesterday, at our monthly meeting of Social Security disability attorneys and claimants' representatives, we had two district managers from the Social Security Administration's San Francisco field offices come and speak to us. Both of them offered a dim picture of what is happening locally. Essentially, they are seeing more claimants at the field [...]
June 27, 2009 09:51 pm
... just didn't understand how or why someone could get hit so hard for illegally downloading two dozen songs. With that in mind, we went back and checked in with Fred von Lohmann, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation out in San Francisco, to bring us up to speed. (n.b.: Von Lohmann and EFF have done battle with the RIAA repeatedly in the past and filed an amicus brief in support of Thomas in this ...
June 27, 2009 07:30 am
To assist class action defense attorneys anticipate the types of cases against which they will have to defend in California, we provide weekly, unofficial summaries of the legal categories for new class action lawsuits filed in the state and federal courts located in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, San Mateo, Oakland/Alameda and Orange County areas. We include only those categories that include 10% or more of the class action filings during the preceding week ...
June 27, 2009 07:21 am
06/26/09 PR Newswire (press release of Law Offices of Waukeen Q. McCoy): On June 26th, plaintiff attorney Waukeen McCoy filed an amended complaint in the class action lawsuit Burns v. State of California (San Francisco Sup. Ct., Case No. CGC-08-481908, ... State Law and it is not recognized in Federal Law." The amended complaint is not (yet) available at the website of the San Francisco Superior Court, so it is unclear whether McCoy has somehow raised an equal-protection issue ...
June 27, 2009 02:54 am
... evidence in about 50,000 cases, including more than 1,400 containing DNA." Indeed, Hundreds of police departments and district attorneys' offices in 47 of the state's 58 counties currently rely on the state lab to test their crime scene evidence. The other 11 counties, mostly concentrated in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, have their own labs to test forensic evidence. But many law enforcement agencies in small or rural counties doubt ...
June 27, 2009 01:12 am
... Caza, 43, of Sacramento; and Luciana Harmath, 29, of Glendale, Ariz., were all convicted of conspiracy to defraud federal immigration agencies, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District announced. In a press statement, prosecutors said the defendants, working for the Sacramento and San Francisco firm Sekhon & Sekhon, submitted asylum applications, primarily for Indian and Romanian nationals, " ...
June 26, 2009 09:55 pm
 
 

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