• June 1, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

    Vision Qwest

    Richard Baer clearly remembers the day he walked into the center of a perfect legal storm. Like the eye of every hurricane, the nondescript San Francisco conference room was deceptively

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  • U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc. v. Parts Geek, LLC

    Publication Date: 2012-08-31
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-31
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: John F. Walter, District Judge, Presiding Before: Jerome Farris, Richard R. Clifton, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald E. Hawxhurst (argued), Crowe Hawxhurst LLP, Los Angeles, California; Michael H. Simon, Christopher L. Garrett, Nathan R. Christensen, Perkins Coie LLP, Portland, Oregon, for appellant/cross-appellee U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc. Steven E. Angstreich (argued), Weir and Partners LLP, Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Daniel E. Sobelsohn, The Sobelsohn Law Firm, Los Angeles, California, for appellee/cross-appellant Parts Geek LLC.
    for defendant: Wendy S. Albers (argued), Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellee Lucas Thomason.

    Case Number: No. 10-56129 No. 10-56194

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 10157 U.S. AUTO PARTS NETWORK, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PARTS GEEK, LLC, a New J

  • February 19, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Class Action Settlement Scourge Ted Frank Wins Third Circuit Cy Pres Challenge

    Ted Frank, the crusader for class action reform, has torpedoed a deal that would have paid $3 mil o a class of consumers, more than $14 mil o plaintiffs lawyers, and roughly $18 mil

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  • April 26, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Quinn Emanuel Opens Can of Worms in $10.5 Billion AIG Suit Against BofA

    Out of the whopping 1.7 million mortgages underlying the residential mortgage-backed securities at the heart of American International Gr

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  • April 4, 2006 | The Recorder

    Bowman Off the Case

    Santa Clara Deputy DA is Off the Case Longtime Santa Clara deputy DA Bowman is now missing from his caseload, including a murd

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  • Rodriguez v. Disner

    Publication Date: 2012-08-10
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-10
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Manuel L. Real, District Judge, Presiding Before: Jerome Farris, Richard R. Clifton, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Gaudet, Jr., The Hague, The Netherlands, and Sandeep Gopalan, Maynooth, Ireland, appearing pro se (Appeal No. 10-57037).
    for defendant: Margaret A. Grignon, Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellant Sandra Disner (Appeal No. 10-55309). Terry W. Bird and Thomas R. Freeman (argued), Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg, P.C., Los Angeles, California, and Sidney Kanazawa, McGuireWoods LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellant McGuireWoods LLP (Appeal Nos. 10-55342, 10-56770). John W. Davis, Law Office of John W. Davis, San Diego, California, and Steven F. Helfand, Helfand Law Offices, San Francisco, California, for objectors-appellants David Feldman, Cameron Gharabiklou, Emily Grant, Jeff Lang, Sarah McDonald, Cara Patton, Rachel Schwartz, and Greg Thomas (Appeal No. 10-56700). Charles A. Sturm, Steele Sturm PLLC, Houston, Texas, for objectors-appellants James Juranek, Audrey Juranek, and Richard P. Le Blanc (Appeal No. 10-56703). J. Garrett Kendrick and C. Benjamin Nutley (argued), Kendrick & Nutley, Pasadena, California, and John Pentz, Maynard, Massachusetts, for objectors-appellants George Schneider, Jonathan M. Slomba, James Puntumapanitch, Justin Head, and Ryan Helfrich (Appeal No. 10-56724). Joshua R. Furman (argued), Joshua R. Furman Law Corp., Beverly Hills, California, and John M. Zimmerman, Law Offices of John M. Zimmerman, Seattle, Washington, for objectors-appellants Aaron Lukoff, John Prendergast, and David Orange (Appeal No. 10-56737). J. Darrell Plamer, Law Offices of Darrell Plamer PC, Solana Beach, California, for objectors-appellants Evans & Mullinix, P.A., David Oriol, Sarah Siegel, Jennifer Brown McElroy, Daniel Schafer, and Jason Tingle (Appeal No. 10-56803).

    Case Number: No. 10-55309 No. 10-55342 No. 10-56730 No. 10-56700 No. 10-56703 No. 10-56724 No. 10-56737 No. 10-56803 No. 10-57037

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 9131 RYAN RODRIGUEZ, on behalf of himself and all others si y situated; REENA B. FRAILICH, on behalf of herself and all others si

  • October 20, 2005 | The Recorder

    PJ Nomination Could Be Consolation Prize

    If Justice Carol Corrigan doesn't get named to the California Supreme Court, she might just have a fallback position waiting for her.Several attorneys have confirmed receiving letters

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  • Lee v. West Coast Life Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2012-07-31
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    Date Filed: 2012-07-31
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Percy Anderson, District Judge, Presiding Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Richard A. Paez, and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Blakeman, Esq. and Burton Mark Senkfor, Esq., Law Office of Burton Mark Senkfor, Los Angeles, California, for the counter-claimants-cross-claimants-appellants. Brent Dorian Brehm and Glenn R. Kantor, Kantor & Kantor LLP, Northridge, California, for the plaintiffs-counter-defendants-cross-defendants.
    for defendant: Linda B. Oliver, Reed Smith LLP, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-counter-defendant-counter-claimant-appellee.

    Case Number: No. 11-55026

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 8604 ROBERT S. LEE; GINA STEVENS; LAURA STEVENS, Counter-claimants-cross-claimants-Appellants, and p cla

  • November 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Cases to Watch

    There's no shortage of interesting lawsuits out there. But which ones are going to have the biggest impact? To find out, we talked to litigators across a wide range of practice areas. They pointed

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  • Tarle v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-05-23
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    Date Filed: 2012-05-22
    Court: C.A. 2nd
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: The Mathews Law Group and Charles T. Mathews; Law Offices of Roxanne�Huddleston and Roxanne Huddleston; The Rager Law Firm and Jeffrey�A.�Rager for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Reed Smith and Deborah J. Broyles; Cole Pedroza, Kenneth R. Pedroza and Joshua�C. Traver for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. B224739

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 5624 PATRICIA TARLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC.,