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... as payments for bogus reinsurance which is purchased from captive insurers operated by the firms sending business to the title insurers." First American Title Ins. Co. v. Superior Court, ___ Cal.App.4th ___, 2007 WL 184598 (Cal. ... 's analysis, leading the appellate court to conclude that plaintiff "had apparently appointed himself enforcement officer for the California Department of Insurance settlement agreement" even though he was "an acknowledged stranger to that agreement did not restrain his ...

... the parties under the circumstances." Defense attorneys opposed the precertification discovery sought arguing that under First American Title Ins. Co. v. Superior Court, 146 Cal.App.4th 1564 (Cal.App. 2007), ... precertification discovery by a plaintiff that was never a member of the putative class. Parris is thus consistent with the general rule in California that precertification discovery for the purpose of finding a substitute plaintiff is unavailable if the original named plaintiffs never had ...

... but the blawgosphere as a whole. However, I just received this update to the story. Sam Zell, the head of Tribune Co., met with his employees/journalists last week at the Orlando Sentinel, one of the newspapers covered by his idiotic/inspiring ... Series "Mind-Numbing Lawyer Gobbledygook" Overrated? Our Gobbledygood vs. Their Gobbledygook First Tribune Handbook Violator: Its Creator Tags California Employment Law | Employee Handbooks | News | Policy : Opinion | Retaliation Related Posts California ...

... the case entitled: State of California v. Allstate Insurance Co. Let's do a little bit to set the stage first. The State of California made a $500 million claim ... holding partially for the insurers and partially for the State. Here's the scorecard: The "Relevant Discharge" First, we have a general liability policy that contained a "sudden and accidental pollution ... .App.4th 1300 (2001), and Lockheed Martin Corp. v. Continental Ins. Co., 134 Cal.App.4th 187 (2005), to the extent they held the insured ...

... and also likely will lead to practical difficulties and confusion in implementing instream flow requirements in the future. First, as the dissenting opinion pointedly notes, the majority opinion inappropriately elevates form over substance by creating an ... 's natural flow under a public program to promote the common good." Id. at 9. Moreover, under California law, it is the holder of the appropriative water rights -- in this case, Casitas -- that actually physically controls water right diversions, ...

1 Filed 11/21/08 CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION FIVE MICHAEL MORALES et al., Plaintiffs and ... shall do so expressly.' (Gov. Code, § 11346, subd. (a); [citations].)" (Morning Star Co. v. State Bd. of Equalization (2006) 38 Cal.4th 324, 333 (Morning ... in Evans, as here, was whether the protocols were subject to the MAPA. (Evans, at p. 346.) Title 10, subtitle 1 of the State [of Maryland] Government Article section 10-101(g ...

... , 1044-46 (D.Nev.2000) (same), and Transp. Indem. v. Fin. Trust Co., 339 F.Supp. 405, 406-07 (C.D.Cal.1972) (same), ... Wash.2000) (applying last-served rule). Indeed, even judges within the Northern District of California have not agreed upon the proper approach. Compare Varney v. Johns-Manville Corp., ... discern a preferred approach to this issue among the courts that have addressed it. Several courts have described the "first-served rule" as the "majority rule." See McAnally, 107 F.Supp.2d at 1227; ...

... companies decide to collude rather than compete."[i] Watson was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California and alleges violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, Section 5(a) of the ... the opportunity to purchase lower-cost generic versions of AndroGel, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. This not the first time the FTC has challenged reverse payment settlements as anticompetitive. In 2001, the FTC issued an administrative complaint ...

... is a quiet title action, normally a sort of ho-hum affair long on detail, but short of broad interest. The decision, however, is notable for a couple of reasons. The first deals is the ... and that they were entitled to a one-half interest because their predecessors were co-grantees during the 1848 land division (Great Mahele). The other side asserted that ... the Mahele, and subsequently confirmed by Royal Patent. Cf. Summa Corp. v. California, 466 U.S. 198 (1984), in which the U.S. Supreme Court held ...

... summary judgment on Counts II through IV, VII and VIII of their first amended complaint, arguing that the Environmental Impact Statement violates the National Environmental Policy Act ... future suits on the merits of the same claim. See Payne v. Panama Canal Co., 607 F.2d 155, 158 (5th Cir. 1979) (holding that "e ... et seq., "in the Santa Barbara Channel and other shipping lanes off the California coast .... will not jeopardize the continued existence of threatened and endangered species."... Under ...