Tag: Los Angeles

* A federal judge has certified a class action filed by peanut farmers alleging that companies conspired to depress the price of peanuts. Guess the farmers didn’t want to be paid “peanuts” for their crop… [Counter]

* Pinterest has settled a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by a former executive for $22.5 million. [CNN Business]

* Attorney General Bill Barr will resign his position next week. [New York Times]

* A probe into Hunter Biden’s taxes is purportedly complicating Joe Biden’s search for an Attorney General. [Politico]

* A prominent Los Angeles attorney, who was involved in the case that inspired the movie Erin Brockovich, has had his assets frozen by a judge. This might be a good plot for a sequel… [Los Angeles Times]

The Ohio Supreme Court said a lawyer’s “pants are charred” by lies, and disbarred the attorney for allegedly practicing law while suspended and other misconduct. That’s quite a “burn”… [Columbus Dispatch]

* A new lawsuit alleges that a well-known Los Angeles attorney stole from clients to finance “a public image of obscene wealth” for himself and his wife, singer and “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Erika Jayne. [Los Angeles Times]

* Ivanka Trump was deposed on Tuesday in a lawsuit alleging misuse of funds designated for the Trump Inauguration. [CNN]

* A 37-year-old attorney has been confirmed as a federal judge in Mississippi. [Jackson Free Press]

* Joe Exotic’s lawyer claims that the former zookeeper is close to receiving a presidential pardon. Maybe President Trump wants another season of Tiger King… [Business Insider]

* A lawyer has been suspended from practice for five drunk driving arrests. This attorney needs to learn how to “pass” a bar… [Bloomberg Law]

* A pregnant Pennsylvania lawyer completed a hearing in a murder case last week after her water broke during the proceedings. [Today]

* A curfew in Miami, Florida, has been eliminated thanks to a lawsuit filed by a local strip club. [Fox News]

* Los Angeles is facing a lawsuit over mamajuana delivery licenses. [Independent]

* Goodwin Procter has promoted a trans lawyer to equity partnership. [Bloomberg Law]

* A Rhode Island criminal trial may be decided by a semicolon in a statute. Still waiting for the Oxford comma to make an appearance in a criminal trial… [Providence Journal]

* Lawyers for the estate of the helicopter pilot accused in a lawsuit of causing the crash that killed Kobe Bryant and others wants the case removed from Los Angeles. Pretty sure people know who Kobe Bryant is outside of LA… [Yahoo Sports]

* Lyft has settled a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice alleging that the ride-sharing service violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. [Tech Crunch]

* The Trump Administration is facing a lawsuit for failing to provide COVID-19 relief money to undocumented families. [Buzzfeed News]

* A lawyer for alt-right figure Richard Spencer has been allowed to withdraw from representing him in a case involving the 2017 Charlottesville violence. [Yahoo News]

* Check out this profile of a top Hollywood lawyer who wheels and deals while walking around 10 miles a day. That’s kind of the opposite of the Lincoln Lawyer… [Wall Street Journal]

* A convicted murderer will get a new evidentiary hearing because his trial lawyer started dating and later married a key witness in the case. Guess the client’s wedding invitation got lost in the mail. [Hudson County View]

* A Los Angeles lawyer is being investigated by the LAPD for allegedly posting on social media that cops should be “picked off.” [Fox News]

* A lawyer for one of the officers charged in the death of George Floyd is arguing that bystanders should have done more to stop the police. Wouldn’t try that argument in court. [Miami Herald]

* A judge has halted efforts to take down a statute of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virgina, since the 130-year-old deed for the land upon which the statute stands allegedly requires that the statute remain. [CBS News]

* A Texas attorney has been charged with egging a judge’s car in order to protest stay-at-home orders. Does this lawyer think it’s “Cabbage Night”? (“Mischief Night” or “Devils Night” for all you people who didn’t grow up in North Jersey.) [New York Post]

* Three members of a $31.7 million fraudulent slip-and-fall ring have been sentenced to prison. Wonder if they got the idea from Slippin’ Jimmy. [Insurance Journal]

* Former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has abandoned her short-lived defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton. [CNN]

* A Louisiana attorney who was suspended from practice for chest bumping a prosecutor has been reinstated as a lawyer. Apparently the chest bump was not like the kind seen in football. [Advocate]

* The Los Angeles City Attorney has sued a company for selling allegedly fake COVID-19 tests. [Orange County Register]

* There is some hope that a TV series based on The Lincoln Lawyer will be produced after all. Thought I already saw the reboot, but realized it was just a Matthew McConaughey car commercial. [Hollywood Reporter]

* Since this website has not published a Lawyerly Lairs article in a while, just wanted to report that a top Chicago criminal lawyer has listed his posh pad for sale. [Crain’s Chicago]

* A Florida judge has tossed a lawsuit claiming that the governor of Florida couldn’t close the state’s beaches because of COVID-19. Looks like people will have to hit tanning beds instead of beaches…it’s an essential service, right? [Orlando Sentinel]

* A federal judge has ordered the inspection of DC jails amid concerns that prison officials are not doing enough to prevent the spread of COVID-19. [Washington Post]

* The family of a Walmart employee has filed a wrongful death lawsuit after the employee died from COVID-19. [NBC News]

* StubHub is another one of the long list of businesses facing class action lawsuits for allegedly not treating customers fairly when it comes to dealing with issues involving COVID-19. [Billboard]

* Officials in Los Angeles have settled a lawsuit with a company claiming that they had accurate in-home test kits that could detect antibodies for COVID-19. [Los Angeles Daily News]

* A lawyer with no park experience will now be in charge of the Grand Canyon. What does this attorney really need to know other than not to fall in? [Washington Post]

* Not that I have any sympathy for lawyers who agree to represent Trump, but he must be the world’s worst client. [Levinson and Stefani]

* Somebody sent a mailer trying to shame people into voting. The letters included the names of their neighbors and whether or not they voted. Nobody knows who sent the letters. Other than that, no concerns. [Los Angeles Times]

* Being “color blind” to race is unhelpful, except in hiring. [Slate]

* Bill Cosby lawyers are pissed that only two black people are on the jury for his trial. That probably means they’re planning some kind of elaborate race-based defense that will piss me off. “Women are lying about being raped because there are too many funny black men. Dave Chapelle is next.” [TMZ]

* To be honest, I forgot that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau existed. [Wall Street Journal]

* Playboy model Dani Mathers pleaded no contest to misdemeanor invasion of privacy for body-shaming a woman at her gym. The system worked, I believe. [Eyewitness News]

* Not legal, but there’s a chance some people working late haven’t seen this yet and, well, seems to me that your clients can spot you the two minutes.