Miscellaneous

• Expedia, Travelocity and Other Online Travel Companies Owe the City of Anaheim $21.3 million in Transient Occupancy Taxes

  Paul Kiesel | February 19, 2009 7:59 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA

  As the California Legislature passed a budget package today that raises taxes and cuts billions of dollars in school funding, I felt that sharing the below press release was worthwhile and...

• New Peanut Product Recalls

  Paul Kiesel | February 18, 2009 1:36 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  From the AP: The following recalls have been announced because the products could be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in...

• Ticketmaster Trying to Double Its Profits Through "Monopolistic Scheme"

  Paul Kiesel | February 11, 2009 8:38 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Bloomberg News, the Associated Press and other media outlets quickly picked up this news story, even with all of the Economic Stimulus news that's absorbed most websites and newspapers' headlines:...

• Paul Krugman is on the Edge

  Paul Kiesel | February 06, 2009 7:53 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  As the economy remains stagnant or contracts into a more depressing declivity, reports of the number of job losses from January coming in and continuing to rise (600,000 and counting; not to mention...

• Former UCLA Willed Body Director Owes Medical School $500,000

  Paul Kiesel | January 30, 2009 7:23 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  He needs to get this behind him. That's what Superior Court Judge Curtis Rappe told the attorney representing former UCLA Willed Body Director Henry Reid, as he pled to keep his client out of state...

• What Did JPMorgan Know?

  Paul Kiesel | January 29, 2009 1:43 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  From the New York Times: By CLAUDIO GATTI and DIANA B. HENRIQUES JPMorgan Chase says that its potential losses related to Bernard L. Madoff, the man accused of engineering an immense global Ponzi...

• AP: Californians' Access to Emergency Healthcare in Jeopardy

  Paul Kiesel | January 28, 2009 7:49 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  From the Associated Press: A coalition of emergency doctors took the state to court Tuesday over low reimbursement rates for Medi-Cal patients. In a lawsuit filed against the California Department...

• California's Overstressed Emergency Healthcare System on the Verge of Collapse

  Paul Kiesel | January 27, 2009 7:16 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Raymond Boucher of Kiesel Boucher Larson filed a lawsuit today, on behalf of emergency room doctors, against the State of California. The complaint says that California's emergency healthcare...

• The Ignorance of the SEC

  Paul Kiesel | January 27, 2009 2:42 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA

  A Preface Concerning The Washington Times Maybe, I think, I can get the Washington Times expelled from the association (the American Society of Newspaper Editors. - Al Franken on the scandalous...

• L.A. Times: Real Estate Reality

  Paul Kiesel | January 26, 2009 4:35 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  From the Los Angeles Times: As lawmakers look for a way out of the recession, it's worth remembering how we got into this mess in the first place. The collapse of the housing market sucked...