Miscellaneous

• Woman Sentenced 50 Years for Filming Sex Crimes Against 4 Year Old

  Cheryl Buchanan | March 06, 2008 6:08 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Sikat's boyfriend, David Shoutyh Hwang, 36, plead guilty to 60 counts of child molesting in October 2006 and is now serving a term of 50 years to life in prison. -cbs2.com March 6, 2008 Judge Gary Paer in Rancho Santa Margarita made it clear today that complicit conduct in the course of egregious child rape is just as evil as the actual rape itself. A 28 year old woman, Sheila Sikat, was...

• Clinic May Have Infected 40,000 with Hepatitis C and HIV

  Jenny Albano | March 04, 2008 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  A clinic in Las Vegas had to be shut down after officials found out that up to 40,000 people may have been exposed to hepatitis C and HIV because the clinic reused syringes and vials.The clinic, the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, was served with an emergency suspension of its business license. Officials are asking the people who were exposed to hepatitis C and HIV to be tested because of...

• Granting Telecom Companies Immunity From Pending Class-Actions Violates Our Civil Rights

  Shehnaz Bhujwala | March 04, 2008 10:07 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Last week, President Bush strongly urged US lawmakers to pass "anti-terrorism legislation" that would restore legal immunity to telecommunications companies, such as AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon, that aided federal efforts to eavesdrop on emailed communications and telephone conversations between the United States and other countries. Today, there is potential for passage of this legislation:...

• Wiretapping Act Lapses As House Democrats Continue Debate Against Retroactive Immunity for Compliant Telecommunications Companies

  Shehnaz Bhujwala | February 27, 2008 10:42 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  The recent lapse in a temporary US wiretapping law has brought much uncertainty to private telecommunications companies and, according to the White House, threatens to disrupt future surveillance operations. Fueling this uncertainty is the raging debate in Congress over whether phone providers that helped in the National Security Agency's post 9/11 program of wiretapping without warrants should...

• Man Awarded $18 Million for Fall into Manhole

  Lance Rubin | February 26, 2008 5:28 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  For years, the company that operates the steam system under Philadelphia streets has had a problem with homeless men removing manhole covers. Even though the company knew about this problem, it did nothing to stop it. In 2004, this failure spelled disaster for 30 year old medical student Marcus Gustafsson, who fell into an uncovered manhole and plunged 18 feet, breaking his back. Because of...

• First Three Trials are Scheduled Against Salesian Order in Los Angeles

  Cheryl Buchanan | February 23, 2008 6:24 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Despite the fact that all of the other Defendants have settled a total of more than 500 cases that were pending in the coordinated litigation known as "Clergy I" in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, the Salesian Order of priests and brothers remains on a dangerous course of denial. At this time, Kiesel, Boucher & Larson is preparing for not only its first trial (scheduled to begin April 14, 2008)...

• Talking On a Cell Phone While Driving Is Not Only Dangerous, But A Driver Who Uses a Company Cell Phone Can Cost The Company Millions

  Miriam Schimmel | February 13, 2008 2:49 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Cases across the country have held employers liable for employees who drive and cause accidents and injuries while talking on company cell phones.International Paper Co. just agreed to pay $5.2 million to settle a personal injury claim for damages resulting from an automobile accident that occurred while its employee was talking on a cell phone provided by the company. The plaintiff alleged...

• Cerebral Palsy Victim Awarded $37.5 million

  Lance Rubin | February 12, 2008 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Five year old Spencer Oram has cerebral palsy today because the obstetrician who delivered him failed to heed warning signs and perform a Caesarean section. Instead, the obstetrician waited. By the time the baby was born, he had been deprived of oxygen for too long and developed cerebral palsy, a life-long, debilitating condition. His twin sister, born half an hour earlier, is fine.Spencer's...

• HOME BUILDER AND COUNTRYWIDE ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD CONSUMERS

  Michael Eyerly | February 08, 2008 5:49 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  As if the news about the housing industry wasn't bad enough already. What with stagnant home sales, plummeting home prices and the so called "sub-prime mortgage meltdown" there are plenty of things about which to worry. Now comes news of an alleged scheme carried out by KB Home and Countrywide Financial to defraud consumers. Here is what a newly filed class action lawsuit alleges - KB Homes...

• Brain Injured Teen Gets $7.5 Million

  Lance Rubin | February 06, 2008 7:53 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  A West Virginia teen struck by a truck driven by a City employee recovers $7.5 million for his brain injury, even though the City claimed they weren't liable.Seventeen year old Travis Dalton was on his way to a job interview, when he was struck by a truck driven by an employee of the City of Norfolk, West Virginia. Now Travis will never work due to the brain injury he suffered in the accident. ...